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Post by innatejames on Apr 7, 2014 17:06:09 GMT
For those of you related to the younger Josiah James (who married Olivia James), I just found this website: vincewelch.com/burg.htmlAmos Burg, Jr. is the son of Anna James. And Anna James is the daughter of Josiah and Olivia. It seems he was a pretty famous National Geographic explorer, lecturer, and movie maker. Extremely interesting slide show. I'm so excited about this find! |
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Post by cat on Apr 8, 2014 11:48:21 GMT
Amos's parents- Amos & Annie (James) Burg  |
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Post by innatejames on Apr 8, 2014 17:33:10 GMT
If you go to the National Geographic website, and type "Amos Burg" in the search field on the top right of the screen, you'll see a list of all of his articles and photos. I created a free username and password and got access to reading his work. So cool!
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Post by innatejames on Apr 10, 2014 17:53:20 GMT
This is the biography of Amos Burg, Jr. It arrived in the mail today; I will read it and tell you all about it soon!  |
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Post by innatejames on Apr 29, 2014 19:08:22 GMT
My reading is pretty slow going on Amos. But I do have some snippets about his family life from the book that I will post soon.
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Post by innatejames on May 28, 2014 20:35:41 GMT
I read last night that Amos Burg Jr. was the youngest (at the time) lecturer in the National Geographic Circuit. He was also the youngest (at the time) inductee to the Explorers Club: www.explorers.org/index.php/about/about_the_club. The Club included Roald Amundsen - Antarctic Explorer, Peary and Henson - Arctic Explorers, Charles Lindburgh, Sir Edmund Hillary,Teddy Roosevelt. Very impressive stuff! |
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Post by innatejames on Jun 2, 2014 20:33:25 GMT
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Post by innatejames on Jun 2, 2014 20:42:44 GMT
And this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCETheZgS2k) has interviews of Amos, and his sister Vera Yunker. You can hear their voices! It gave me chills!
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Post by innatejames on Jun 6, 2014 21:18:55 GMT
Instead of posting every little thing I found out about Amos, I wrote a blog post about him. I'm sure I'll write much more; I already plan on posting the obit I found of him that summarizes his admirable life rather well. You can read my article here: innatejames.wordpress.com/2014/06/04/dreams-as-big-as-canada/It even won an award. |
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