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Boston 1775

Two Days of the “1776 Report” - On 5 January 2021, the President’s Advisory 1776 Commission (dubbed “The 1776 Commission”) had its first meeting. The next day, the President egged his f...
Christopher Setterlund, In My Footsteps

In My Footsteps Podcast Episode 7 - Koach KO New Year's Fitness Part 2; Stowe, VT, Old School Snow Days, This Week In History, and more. - Episode 7: Koach KO New Year's Fitness Part 2; Road Trip: Stowe, Vermont; Old School Snow Days; This Week In History; Special Announcement, and more!
Daytonian in Manhattan

John C. Burne's 1890 260 West 17th Street - On August 1, 1889 William C. Burne purchased the two two-story wooden houses at Nos. 258 and 260 West 17th Street from Newman Cowen, paying $18,000 fo...
Cause of Liberty

Part 2 Did You Think to Thank Trump? - President Trump left the White House today, and Joe Biden was inaugurated as the new President of the United States. I do not hold high expe...
Abbeville Institute

American by Birth, Southern by the Grace of God - The old saying: “American by birth, Southern by the grace of God” certainly applies to me. I’m an ethnic Southerner who was raised in the north – but who, ...
West in New England

52 ANCESTORS 1: ELISHA WEST OF KINGSTON MA. PT 1 - Elisha West was born on 2Mar, 1693, in Duxbury, Massachusetts, the son of Patience and Peter. He married Mary Bearce at Plympton, Massachusetts, on 10Dec...
Genealogical Musings

Augusta's Confederate Monument and My Family History - Sometimes, genealogy and modern politics have some overlap. In Augusta, Georgia, a giant, imposing obelisk stands as a memorial to Confederate soldiers....
The Warrior Muse

SMART Goals for Writing, School, & Health - Okay, I figured I'd hit some goals for the year. However, I'm just setting them for the next six months, and they'll be a mix of school, writing/publica...
Nutfield Genealogy

Hancock, New Hampshire Congregational Church - Weathervane Wednesday - Today's weathervane was photographed on the steeple above the Hancock, New Hampshire Congregational Church. The Hancock Congregational Church was gath...
Civil War Notebook

Captain Charles Wright Wills: January 9, 1865 - Green Square, Savannah, Ga. January 9, 1865. Thinking we for once in the service had a chance to enjoy quiet life, two of our number were sent to Hilton H...
THE CABINET CARD GALLERY

PORTRAIT OF TWO PRETTY FASHIONABLE YOUNG LADIES (TINTYPE) - This tintype features two lovely fashionable young ladies. The photo is highly detailed. You can see the wrinkles on their beautiful dresses. The tintype a...
Thomas Gardner of Salem, MA

TGS, Inc. References - A. Descendants of Thomas Gardner (by children): Thomas, George, Richard, John, Sarah (Gardner) Balch, Samuel, Joseph had no chi...
Heirlooms Reunited

Bible Listing the Ulrich Siblings, possibly the children of Benjamin Ulrich of Ephrata, Pennsylvania - The person who sold me this Bible said that it was from the Ulrich family of Ephrata, Pennsylvania; hopefully, a reader will weigh in with validation. ...
The Magpie Mason

‘You are not of the masons.’ - Born on this date in 1809: Edgar Allan Poe.His short story “The Cask of Amontillado,” published in 1847, makes a reference to Freemasonry that schola...
My Tapley Tree...and its Branches

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: 2021 (Week 2): Family Legend - *Amy Johnson Crow from Generations Cafe is again hosting the blog writing prompt this year called 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: 2021. I'm going to try to p...
GenealogyMagazine.com

Glenn Close and John Waters on “Finding Your Roots” - “It sounds like a movie scene I’d write,” says filmmaker John Waters about the fate of his great-grandfather. He and actor Glenn Close hear stories [...]...
Black Raven Genealogy

Traditional genealogy verifies genetic genealogy find - It is perhaps one of the great ironies of traditional genealogy that we often learn more about a man's life in the records created upon his death. This is ...
Olive Tree Genealogy Blog

Find Your New Netherland (New York) Settlers - If you have ancestors who settled in New Netherland (current day New York) in the 17th Century (1600s) you won't want to miss my New Netherland section of ...
Historic New England

Explore Historic New England’s new digital visitor experiences - Historic New England offers six new online experiences for perfect “at home getaways” Thanks to a $300,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Huma...
Bookman's Log

The $25 Book - [image: The $25 Book] When I began my bookselling career as a maritime specialist, I made my living peddling $25 books. There were thousands of them – hist...
Yesterday’s Papers

A Crowded Life in Comics – - Happy Old Years!Even during Prohibition – perhaps especially during Prohibition – New Year’s Day was widely observed as hangover day, as in this iconic car...
Quilt Crossing

The one you don't want to have to write - I have been a bit adrift lately. My lovely mother recently passed away. She was 90 years old, but it came as a shock just the same. Her passing was not C...
Sandwalk

On the importance of controls - When doing an exeriment, it's important to keep the number of variables to a minimum and it's important to have scientific controls. There are two types ...
The Accidental Genealogist

Saying Farewell to 2020: My Year in Review - I realize I am stating the obvious when I say I am *so happy* that this is the final day of 2020! What a year it has been. Like everyone else, I saw li...
OLD PHOTOS FOUND

LAKE, Harry (Bedford IA) - HARRY LAKE IDENTIFICATION ON PHOTO: "Harry Lake, Bedford Iowa" PHOTO TAKEN: unknown location and photographer, but likely Bedford Iowa c. 1904 PURC...
In Times Past

It's In The Mail (I) - SOUND THE APPROACH--In the late 18th century, post-riders made weekly trips to deliver mail to outlying communities. They often carried a tin horn whi...
Quixotic Joust

Why We Never Stamp Out Organized Crime - This story begins in 1951 when two sons of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt--each son born to a different wife and each wife born to a filthy rich father--acquir...
AnceStories: The Stories of My Ancestors

A New Blog: Shirley's Diary: A Depression-Era Girl's Story - Today I started a new blog. Yes, I can hear what you're thinking! "She hasn't kept up with her original one, and she's starting *another*?!" Life has c...
William & Mary Dyer

Run, Shepherds, Run, a 17th century poem - William Drummond was a Scottish poet who lived at the time when William and Mary Barrett Dyer and William and Anne Marbury Hutchinson were children and a...
Massachusetts and More Genealogy Blog

William Brewster (ca 1645 to 1723) and Lydia Partridge (ca 1651-17430, Duxbury, Massachusetts - William Brewster was born about 1645 at Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, the son of Love Brewster and Sarah Collier. Love was a *Mayflower *passe...
Letters to My Grandparents

Thankful for Intrepid Ancestors - Dear Grandparents, A few days before we will celebrate Thanksgiving, we pause to remember that we owe our lives to intrepid ancestors who were willing t...
Our New England Heritage

New England Colonists 1600-1700 Greenman/Grenamon-Gyles - *Greenman , Grenaman* David was an early settler of Taunton, Mass. and is later found at Newport, R.I. in 1635. John was at R.I. in 1638. *Grenough* W...
Ancestry Island

New to Me: IKEA Museum's Catalog Collection - I think I remember the 1995 catalog. It's a classic IKEA image (*IKEA Museum. 2020. Svenska IKEA Kataloger | IKEA Museum. [online] Available at: <https:/...
Northeastern North Carolina Stories

- *Every Town Has* A liar. A sponger. A smart Aleck. A blatherskite. Its richest man. Some pretty girls. A girl who giggles. A weather profet. A neighborhood ...
Old Blue Genes

The Hewlets of New London Connecticut - This post will cover collected research on the Hewlet family of Groton and Stonington, Connecticut. This family name has also been written as Hewlett and ...
Betty's Boneyard Genealogy Blog

JAMES JASPER BRUTON - DNA does it again! Another family mystery solved, and more cousins found. *JAMES JASPER BRUTON* was my great uncle, the brother of my grandmother *MINTTIE ...
AT THE RIVERBEND

Johann Hinrich Spoering - Interior of German 18th century home As was discussed in the previous post, our ancestor, Johann Hinrich Spoering, (1759-1811), an oldest son, inherited F...
Adventures with Jesus and Nemo

Jesus and Nemo visit New Zealand - Hello friends, this seems like an appropriate time to write a post about last year's spring break; when we are all staycationing due to being quarantined. ...
James Pylant

Oh, by the way, my wife was hacked to death last night - In 1910, an 81-year-old named Benjamin Franklin Matthews—called Frank—and his 71-year-old wife, Millie, lived on their farm in Cedar, a township in Boone...
Life From The Roots

Two Genealogy Friends: Both Wrote Genealogy Books, Were Born in Lowell, MA and Died the Same Week - Since December 19, 2019, I have known four people who died. This was unusual because two were related to my husband and three were genealogists. Because I ...
Lowell Doughboys and more...

75 Years Remembering the Battle of the Bulge - Seventy five years ago the Battle of the Bulge was fought against Germany from December 16, 1944 to January 25, 1945 in the Ardennes region. It was the dea...
Compass

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Erica's Adventures in Genealogy

The Four-Generation Picture that Didn't Happen, "Corrected" - When Alice Josephine Richardson Dakin was born, the four-generation photo of the Richardson family (above) was taken. Look above at my header with baby Al...
JDP News

Hug a Medievalist Day 2019 - winners! - Updated 4/12/19 Thank you to everyone who entered my 2019 Hug a Medievalist Day giveaway! Here are the winners: Joy S. won a print copy of my medieval rom...
Recollecting Nemasket

Russell's Cabins, 1950 - During the period between the 1930s and 1950s, before motels became popular, tourists passing through Middleborough were provided accommodation in overnigh...
Wadleigh-Brown-Plymale-Bixby

Murder in Tennessee - In February 1897, in a crowded court room in Clarksville, Tennessee, David Halliburton (a Confederate Civil War veteran) was found *Not Guilty* of commit...
Great Historicals

Live for Me by Colin Falconer - Amazon Link *The Back Cover:* *It should have been boy meets girl. But this is Nazi Germany in 1933, and things like love don’t count for much any more....
Collectible Old Stocks and Bonds

News from the Field - George H. LaBarre Galleries, Inc. - Article 1-1 - News From the Field [image: lincolnheadflaglogoarticles] *We often look back to the beginnings of the stock and bond hobby. Times were quit...
INKSPOT Crime Fiction Blog | A Place for Mystery, Mayhem, Writing and Life

Seven Sinister Sisters on Genres - *Edith Maxwell/Maddie Day here. The Seven Sinister Sisters are on a blog tour and we're giving away books!* We are seven authors with new books coming out ...
Schow-Bickmore Histories

EZEKIEL GILLHAM (1732-1799) - *found on FamilySearch.org (contributed by bobbysworld 15 February 2018)* *(image started:)* ...seems to come from personal letters written by their great-g...
And This Is Good Old Boston

Boston's (Original) South End - On the 28th of July, 1888, the Boston Globe ran an article titled South End, 60 Years Ago, with the typical subtitles: *Time and People Erase Its Former Be...
My Maine Ancestry

Tombstone Tuesday - Charles H. N. & Loan (Churchill) Rowe - Charles H. N. and Loan Parsons (Churchill) Rowe are my 3rd great-grandparents. They are buried in the Upper Gloucester Cemetery in New Gloucester, Maine. C...
The Northeast House Historian

The Benjamin Caryl House c. 1774 - One of my most favorite activities is discovering old houses that I never knew existed. Unexpectedly coming across an historic house is like getting an ext...
The Gloucester I Love

Gloucester's Golden Age of Fishing - Click Here to View Parts 1 and 2 on YouTube! Gloucester's Golden Age of Fishing: Part 1 Gloucester's Golden Age of Fishing: Part 2
Your Brisbane: Past and Present

Brisbane flood problems - There's been some rather full-on marine construction work happening on the Brisbane River at Bulimba River Park. A few weeks ago a barge toting workmen's h...
Miller-Anderson Histories

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Digging Down East

My 64 ~ Researching My Fourth Great Grandparents : Hugh Cowperthwaite III and Mary "Polly" Newcomb - My fourth great grandfather, Hugh Cowperthwaite, was born in Pittsgrove, in Salem County, New Jersey, in 1776, the second son and the third of 10 childr...
Library History Buff Blog

The Great Falls (MT) Public Library and Alma Smith Jacobs - Researching a recent acquisition to my postal librariana collection I discovered the story of African American librarian Alma Smith Jacobs (1916-1997) o...
The Kith and Kin Chronicles

Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney and Lord of Shetland - Robert Stewart (1553-1593) Robert Stewart, Earl of Caithness and Orkney (1553-93), was a natural son of King James V of Scotland by Euphemia Elphinstone (...
My Other Blog

In Search of David Hollister - One of the joys of family research is discovering lines of ancestors that you had never heard of. In my search there have been a few of these, mostly from ...
American History Now

King's Survey: The Sound of Hope - *in which we hear that truth is something that happens to an idea* OK, gang, I have something I want you to listen to. This is president Franklin D. Roos...
Civil War Days & Those Surnames

Asa W. S. Rix. - Pus.*Asa W. S. Rix.* Birth:1841, Marblehead, Massachusetts.. Death: Nov. 26, 1919. Parents: James A, Sally Rix. Married 1872. Merchant. Age 79 years. ...
American Folk Art @ Cooperstown

Found in Collections - A Painted Box - A couple of weeks ago I was touring a group from the Historical Society of Early American Decoration through our collections storage and came across this...
Pauline's Pirates & Privateers

History: A Call for Help - Hale and fair winds to one and all! This is a shout-out to my distant cousins who come from the far flung clan Beluche and to pirates and lover of histo...
BIG OLD HOUSES

Moving On -
Naval Heritage Society Dockyard

The Return of Commodore Biddle - Here it is – PENGUIN DAY. On this day, 200 years ago, the United States Sloop of War HORNET, James Biddle commanding, captured His Majesty’s Brig PENGUIN...
Arkansas in the Civil War

Battle of Jenkins' Ferry 150th Anniversary - Monument at Jenkins' Ferry State ParkToday (April 30, 2014) marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry, Arkansas. The last significant ac...
Christopher T. George's War of 1812 Blog

17th National War of 1812 Symposium, Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Saturday, October 5, 2013 - *Rapidly filling up. Only fifty places available, including speakers. Don't miss out!* [image: 17th National War of 1812 Symposium Flyer]
Travels with Nathaniel

Welcome to "Travels With Nathaniel"! - Hi, my name is Nathaniel, you might remember me from such great literary works as "A Scarlet Letter", "The House of the Seven Gables", and "Twice Told Tal...
PRL Open Forum

Is Conscription the Answer? - Our system of justice is based on the theory that we have a fundamental right to be judged by a panel of our peers, versus by the king’s (or state’s) re...
Pine Grove Cemetery of Brunswick, Maine

New Exhibit at PHS - If you are as interested in hair art as I am or just want to check out some beautiful Victorian art made by a prominent Brunswick family, be sure not to mi...
Fantastic Family Findings

Richard Raymond Peerboom - Part 1 - There are often people in your family tree who tell an important story about your family, although they are not related through blood or marriage. One such...
The Great Ancestral Hunt

What's in my DNA? - The results are in! What a fascinating thing, this DNA. On Ancestry.com, it gives a break down of where I am from using both my paternal and maternal DNA b...
Quinn Bradlee's Ancestors

The Greene Family - *1.) John Greene*, surgeon (Bowridge Hill, Gillingham, County Dorset, England; abt. 1590 - Jan 1659; Warwick, Rhode Island) son of Richard Greene and Mary ...
Rainy Mountains

Social Media, iPhones and Journalism - This clip discusses the impact of social media and how it is used in the journalism workplace. "It's old but it's new now that news organizations have begu...
Jacobus Books

"Perhaps one of the most thorough studies of frontier dens of sin ever compiled" - Ross McSwain, book reviewer for the San Angelo Times-Standard, praises James Pylant and Sherri Knight's book, The Oldest Profession in Texas. "The 380-page...
History—Now and Then

Settlements of Friends’ Meetings in New Jersey - by Jerseyman ©2011 I have extracted the following article on New Jersey Friends’ Meetings from the weekly journal, *The Friend. *This publication serially ...
Pulled Through the Knothole of Time

Quickest Microfilm Lookups Ever - ...and Brent Finds his Great Great Grandfather Yesterday my husband and I went to Anderson, Indiana for the funeral of my Great Aunt Rosie. It was a sa...
A Grand Adventure - Looking for Relatives

Day 152 - I am home. I hit the Colorado border about 1pm (MDT) and was at Ray's by 4pm. It was glorious to see the mountains. They are snow covered and lined the who...
Into the Wilderness

Augustinian Tradition - When the wave of religious assertion which we call Puritanism is considered in the broad perspective of Christian history, it appears no longer as a uniq...
A Couple Of Bubbles Off Center

It's 1635 and a glorious May day in Dorset.... - Imagine you're 24, and there's no future in the Somersetshire village where you grew up and where your family has lived for at least a hundred years. You, ...
historyreader

"The Greatest Battle" Adam Nagorski - The scale of Russian death in WWII boggles the mind. Twenty five to thirty million, more or less, died in the Soviet Union--several million more if you inc...
Phelps Family Research Team

New Index to "Phelps Family in America" Available - Well-known to many Phelps family researchers is the two-volume book, *The Phelps Family of America and Their English Ancestors*, by Judge Oliver Seymour Ph...
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