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Thomas Gardner of Salem, MA

Frontier century - Just saw a photo of Lawrence KS from 1867 at a FB site related to the city's history. It came from the Kansas Historical Society. The time of the photo w...
THE CABINET CARD GALLERY

GIANT ZINNIAS CONGREGATE IN CALIFORNIA : ADVERTISEMENT FOR BURPEE FARMS - This vintage chrome postcard features a woman surrounded by Giant Zinnias. These are new and improved Zinnias raised in the fields of California’s Floradal...
Boston 1775

Lexington Lectures, 22-24 April - The Lexington Historical Society isn’t resting after a busy Patriots Day weekend. It’s offering four online presentations this week. *Thursday, 22 April, ...
Life From The Roots

Doing Research at the Rowley, MA Town Hall - Rowley Town Hall 139 Main Street Rowley, MA 01969 (978) 948-2081 townclerk@townofrowley.org I have a George Kilborn / Kilbourn born 1611 in Wood Ditton...
Daytonian in Manhattan

Allen and Sarah Linn House - 37 West 94th Street - Jessie Reynolds made a name for herself in New York City's male-dominated real estate field in the 1880's. Focusing mostly on the developing Upper We...
Black Raven Genealogy

A to Z April Challenge: Q is for Q 97 - Bridget (Hynes) Wynne - Genealogists always want to know where their ancestors are buried. It’s not just to see what else they might learn from their gravesites. It’s more than t...
Nutfield Genealogy

Mace Family, Tewksbury, Massachusetts - Tombstone Tuesday - These tombstones were photographed at the Old Center Burial Ground in Tewksbury, Massachusetts. IN memory of three Children of Mr. Benjn & Mrs. Rebekah ...
Cause of Liberty

Who Is Peter Cahill? - My VIP for this week is Peter Cahill, the Hennepin County District Judge overseeing the Derek Chauvin’s murder trial. Today, Chauvin’s attorn...
Abbeville Institute

Abundant Acreage Available - Like many traditional-minded people of this era, I have become disenchanted with products of the modern movie industry which are mostly either filth, silli...
Massachusetts and More Genealogy Blog

Isaac Wright (1686-1766) and his wife Mary Cole (ca 1697-1759) of Plymouth and Plympton, Massachusetts - Isaac Wright was born 19 January 1686 at Plymouth, Massachusetts (calculated from his age at death), the son of Adam and Sarah (Soule) Wright. I wrot...
Sandwalk

The illusions of Denis Noble - Denis Noble was a Professor of Physiology at Oxford University in the United Kingdom until he retired. He had a distinguished career as a physiologist ma...
GenealogyMagazine.com

Don Lemon and Gretchen Carlson on “Finding Your Roots” - “Anchored to the Past,” an episode of Finding Your Roots, features broadcast journalists Don Lemon and Gretchen Carlson. The show airs Tues., April 20 at...
West in New England

THE SHOT HEARD ROUND THE WORLD - Today is the 246th Anniversary of the Battles of Lexington & Concord which started the American Revolution on 19Apr 1775. These are our colonial ancesto...
Civil War Notebook

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: April 5, 1863 - PICKET DUTY. I fear I was not appreciated on the fort, as I was superseded after my first day's effort and have since been assigned to other duty; but I no...
Olive Tree Genealogy Blog

Identifying Ancestor Photos: Tintypes - Genealogists often have old family photos in their possession or they find some in Great Aunt Matilda's attic. But how do we know when the photograph was t...
Christopher Setterlund, In My Footsteps

Child of the 1980's - Introduction to Reading - One of the first accomplishments of any child along with walking and potty training is learning to read. According to WebMD children ...
The Magpie Mason

‘Raise your glass to Horus Lodge’ - With all the gods of ancient Egypt that were connected to the brewing and drinking of beer, it’s unexpected how the Masonic Craft Beer Society would i...
OLD PHOTOS FOUND

JUDGE, Mollie and Viola (Hailey, ID) - MOLLIE JUDGE IDENTIFICATION ON PHOTO: Mollie Judge PHOTO TAKEN: unknown photographer, Bellevue Idaho, circa 1910 PURCHASED: 2016 Hollywood Antiques, Eug...
Historic New England

Inside the Conservation Lab: Dyeing silk for reproduction lampshades - When a historic object is beyond repair, a museum may make a reproduction to take its place on display. To recreate a pair of deteriorated silk lampshade...
Bookman's Log

Somebody Help Me… UHhh! - [image: Somebody Help Me… UHhh!] to quote the words of the immortal Wilson Pickett in “Land of 1000 Dances” I need help and I’m calling on you, loyal read...
My Tapley Tree...and its Branches

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: 2021 (Week 14): Great - *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...
Yesterday’s Papers

Gone fishing – -
The Warrior Muse

IWSG - Pushing Boundaries - It's time for the April Insecure Writer's Support Group! Created by Alex J. Cavanaugh, the IWSG serves to provide support to insecure writers and for wr...
Our New England Heritage

New England Colonists 1600-1700 Hammond-Harrison - * Hammond* Benjamin, son of William, was born in London, England and came to Yarmouth, Mass. in 1643. He is then found at Sandwich, Mass. by 1650 and las...
The Accidental Genealogist

Female Ancestor Profile: Remembering Emilia - *[This post was written by my cousin, Renata C. in loving memory of her mum, Emilia who recently passed away.]* [image: Wedding Dance Photo] [Renata C. a...
In Times Past

Shields Against Crime - Local Lawmen—Both of the local men pictured above had long-term law enforcement careers, Caledonia Country sheriff Lorenzo Sulloway of St. Johnsbury s...
Ancestry Island

British Ancestors? Check Out the National Archives' Currency Converter - *The National Archives* When researching your British forebears sometimes you come across records that mention a sum of money but have no idea what that s...
Betty's Boneyard Genealogy Blog

Adventures in Genetic Genealogy: That's a Lot of Fraziers! - In 2011, I received my first autosomal DNA test results from 23andMe. Since then, I have been carefully compiling my matches with descendants of my ...
Letters to My Grandparents

- Dear Grandparents, Happy Anniversary to Joseph and Mehitable (Young) Sanford my 5th great grandparents who were married March 7, 1769. Joseph, the son o...
Heirlooms Reunited

1894 to 1898 Booklets Detailing Road Repair Taxes for Townships in Aroostook County, Maine - 1894 to 1898 booklets detailing the road repair taxes due from residents and non residents of townships in Aroostook County, Maine. Click *here* to see ...
Miller-Anderson Histories

Jonathan Hastings - A record quoted in "The Connecticut Magazine," states his death occurred "13 August 1798. Jonathan Hastings (son of Lieut. Josiah Hastings of Chesterfie...
William & Mary Dyer

Anne Hutchinson featured in television documentary - In 2019, six documentary film producers were tasked with researching and filming six hour-long segments on the spread of Christianity across the world...
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....
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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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