President Joe Biden’s nominee to run the National Archives, who came under GOP scrutiny after the FBI’s search for government records at former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, deadlocked in a party-line committee vote Wednesday.

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee voted 7-7 on the nomination of Colleen J. Shogan to be Archivist of the United States for the National Archives and Records Administration. That means it was not able to be favorably reported. A committee aide confirmed to CNN it was a party-line vote.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will still be able to discharge the nomination from the committee, however, so Shogan should still be able to be confirmed on the Senate floor regardless of the committee vote. Committee chairman – Democratic Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan – said after the vote, “While I’m disappointed this nomination will not advance today, I’ll work with the Majority Leader to have Dr. Shogan’s nomination discharged from the committee for consideration to the full Senate.”

You can read more at: https://cnn.it/3SKMgbl.

This is a follow-up to my earlier article, "I May Be Off-line For a While" at https://eogn.com/page-18080/12933198 that I posted 3 days ago.

The hurricane has come and gone and it did not follow the track that the weather forecasters had predicted. (They included a disclaimer that hurricanes often change their tracks.)

I lost power about 10 PM last night as the wind and rain was steadily increasing. According to an online map on a local television station this morning, the eye of the hurricane passed through the town where I live around 2 AM. It is possible that the eye of the hurricane passed directly over my house but I don't know that for a fact as I was asleep at the time.

This morning, I am still in the midst of the hurricane although obviously on the backside of it. The wind is presently about 40 or 50 miles per hour and it is still raining, but lightly.

Best of all, the power came back on about 9 AM. I am back in business! (Admittedly, the power has briefly gone off and then back on a couple of times since then.)

A quick walk around the inside and outside of my home this morning shows no damage.

Think we had some wind during the night? Look what happened to the street light in front of my house:

There is a small pond across the street from my house and this is the first time I have ever seen white caps on that tiny pond! Yes, the wind is still blowing.

All in all, it's been an exciting couple of days but I don't need excitement like this.

We now return you to your normal programming...

The following announcement was written by Findmypast:

The following is a press release written by WikiTree:

The National Archives faces a Tuesday deadline to update a congressional committee on a key question: Are there still documents from the Trump White House that are unaccounted for?

National Archives officials last month told staff for House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D., N.Y.) that they aren’t sure whether all presidential records from the Trump administration are in its custody, as federal law dictates, prompting the committee to set Sept. 27 as a deadline for an update. The National Archives declined to comment.

The whereabouts of those White House documents—both presidential records from everyday business and classified material—have been in the spotlight since the FBI’s Aug. 8 search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. That was the culmination of more than a year of negotiations between the archives and Mr. Trump’s representatives over the custody of White House records, including boxes of papers that were returned to the archives in January and those seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in August.

Under federal laws governing what happens to documents after a president leaves office and how classified materials should be handled, the National Archives and Records Administration, as it is officially known, is responsible for the documents’ safekeeping. The agency also manages presidential libraries.

You can read more in an article by Siobhan Hughes published in the Wall Street Journal , in MSN, and in other online news web sites. You may find the article at: https://bit.ly/3BTqWt7.

Clare, Ireland history lovers are encouraged to tune in online to Dublin Festival of History as the festival goes online for the first time in 2020. The festival, an initiative of Dublin City Council, will continued until Sunday, October 4th, with all events free to attend.

Now in its eighth year, the festival will take place largely online as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, but will still play host to an international and domestic line up of speakers and panels. The festival will shine a light and fresh perspective on topics such as the construction of the notion of race, Ireland’s last great pandemic and the history of Ireland’s partition.

All events are free, but booking is required. For the full programme of events, and to book, please visit: www.dublinfestivalofhistory.ie.

The genealogy of Camilla Parker-Bowles, a well-born British aristocrat, is extensive and known. But the moment she became Queen consort, the ancestor tree of King Charles III’s wife became even more interesting for genealogists!

MyHeritage.fr, one of the main online companies working on family ancestry as well as DNA testing, has 18.5 billion digitized historical documents relating to the whole world. And overpowered algorithms that can penetrate far into the archives and unearth nuggets for everyone. And so for Camilla…

“As soon as the accession to the throne of Prince Charles and Camilla was confirmed, we embarked on a survey of his ancestors. Because we always find interesting things whether we are famous or not elsewhere!”, explains Marie Cappart, Country Manager for Belgium and genealogist of MyHeritage.fr. Expert of the British royal family, she has built a breathtaking family tree by taking a closer look at the different branches of the prestigious tree. To find lots of interesting and fun information too.

You can read the details in an article by Helen Hernandez published in the oicanadian.com web site at: https://bit.ly/3LKBwr3

The Irei: National Monument for the WWII Japanese American Incarceration aims to remember and repair the racial karma of America.

The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) in Los Angeles has launched an interactive project that expands and reimagines what a monument can be. Led by USC Ito Center Director Duncan Ryuken Williams and Project Creative Director Sunyoung Lee, the Irei: National Monument for the WWII Japanese American Incarceration aims to address the erasure of Japanese American incarceration in the US. At the heart of the Irei Monument is the first comprehensive and accurate list of over 125,000 names of every person of Japanese ancestry incarcerated during World War II. Now, the list will be shared with the public through three distinct, interlinking elements: a sacred book of names as monument (慰霊帳 Ireichō), an online archive as monument (慰霊蔵 Ireizō), and light sculptures as monument (慰霊碑 Ireihi).

The Irei Monument project draws inspiration from the history and traditions of monuments built by Buddhist priests and incarcerated individuals in internment camps, such as the Manzanar Ireito monument (Consoling Spirits Tower) in Inyo County, California, and the Rohwer Ireihi monument in Desha County, Arkansas. “The Ireito monument is always in my mind as a reminder of this history and a Buddhist way of understanding memory,” Williams told Tricycle. “It was not just for remembering, but also for repairing. The monument was just as much for consoling those who have gone before as it was for those who remain. It’s through that spirit that we’re building these new monuments in the 21st century.”

You can read more in an article by Amanda Lim Patton published in the Tricycle.org web site at:  https://tricycle.org/article/irei-national-monument/.

You may or may not know that I live in Florida. If you have been following the national news, you probably already know that a major hurricane is headed towards Florida right now. It has winds expected to peak at 140 miles per hour.

If the hurricane continues on its present path, my home and I will be quite some distance from the "eye" of the hurricane. We probably will receive heavy rain and 50 to 75 m.p.h. winds.

However, hurricanes are famous (or notorious) for not maintaining a steady path. They tend to wander around quite a bit.

If the hurricane changes course a bit to the east, the 'eye" of the hurricane (the center of the storm) will probably go over or very near my house.

If the hurricane changes course a bit to the west, we will probably only receive some rain and perhaps 35 m.p.h. winds.

Regardless of the amount of rain and wind, experience has shown that we almost always lose electricity for an extended period of time during major hurricanes. I have a source of emergency power but the Internet provider's lines are susceptible to falling tree limbs, uprooted trees, flooded lines, and other problems. In the last major hurricane of four years ago, I lost power for a week. Some neighborhoods not too far away were without power for two weeks. Without power, I cannot log onto the newsletter's web site to post new articles.

So... this is warning that I might be able to log in for a week or two. Or maybe I will have no difficulty logging in at all. Or maybe I will experience something in between.

Like the old Chinese proverb: "May you live in interesting times."