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The Mayflower Billington Brothers Dubbed First Juvenile Delinquents in America

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Olive Tree Genealogy Blog

Haldimand County Obituaries Fanny WIlliams 1913 - Continuing with Haldimand County obituaries, we have Mrs. Fanny Williams in her 74th year. Death July 22, 1913 in Dunnville. I was able to find her death r...
Daytonian in Manhattan

The Lost Daly Theatre - 1221 Broadway - *from the collection of the New-York Historical Society* On June 13, 1867 *The Brooklyn Union* anticipated that the theater portion of the nearly-compl...
Cause of Liberty

Who Else Is the NSA Unmasking? - The topic of discussion for this Constitution Monday is the unmasking of American citizens. Last month, Fox News host Tucker Carlson claimed ...
Civil War Notebook

Major Charles Wright Wills: May 1, 1865—4:30 p.m. - May 1, 1865, 4:30 p. m. We are 35 miles from Raleigh to-night, which makes 24 miles to-day over Tar river, which is here about 50 yards wide and runs thro...
Abbeville Institute

The End of America? - I have a good friend who continually asks me what I think are the prospects for sensible, conservative—that is, normal—folks in these parlous times, what I...
The Magpie Mason

‘Esoteric Festive Board’ - I definitely would attend this promising evening if not for already planning to be here the very next morning, but there’s no reason why you can’t go....
Christopher Setterlund, In My Footsteps

In Their Footsteps: Cape Cod History - Christine's Restaurant & Showroom, West Dennis - It was a can’t-miss spot, both literally and figuratively. Located on the big curve of Route 28 in West Dennis, Christine’s set the bar high when ...
West in New England

THE VALUE OF A COMPASS PT2 - John Cutter West Continuing the story, my ancestor John C West was lost on a frozen lake in Maine in a snowstorm with his friends Enoch Abbott and J...
THE CABINET CARD GALLERY

VINTAGE PHOTO OF MENS SOCCER OR RUGBY TEAM : STRIPED JERSEYS : INCLUDES MYSTERY WOMAN - This vintage photograph features a men’s soccer team. The player in the center of the first row is holding a soccer ball. If you look at it under magnifica...
Thomas Gardner of Salem, MA

Travel and Leisure - This is an unusual post. Since travel has been restricted the past year, Travel &Leisure (T&L) had various articles from the past, for a while. Then, we ...
Nutfield Genealogy

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - Weathervane Wednesday - Today's weathervane was photographed in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution was established in 1930 for the study of ...
Life From The Roots

My Fashion History Continues Part 2 (1979-1994) - This post is a continuation to My Clothes History through Photos and Diary (1964-1978). In January 2020, I was busy getting rid of some clothes that didn...
Bookman's Log

Schliemann’s Wedding - [image: Schliemann’s Wedding] *Schliemann, not Runnels* Back in the late 1960s, when I was in the US Navy, I thought I would make good use of my time by l...
In Times Past

On The Stage - This undated photo, probably from the late 1930s, shows a group of Bradford, Fairlee and Newbury men in performance at the Bradford Village Hall. (Bradfo...
Historic New England

Historic New England looks ahead with new Strategic Agenda - Historic New England is pleased to share The New England Plan, our new strategic agenda, outlining organizational goals and core initiatives for 2021 thr...
Heirlooms Reunited

1935 Waltham, Maine: End of Term Sunday School Booklet - *1935* End of Term Booklet for the Sunday School at *Waltham, Maine*. The owner's name, *Janet Giles*, was written on the back cover. She was Janet (Gi...
Massachusetts and More Genealogy Blog

Aptuxcet Trading Post, Bourne, Massachusetts - I’ve long wanted to visit Aptuxcet Trading Post and finally did so this weekend. It’s always intrigued me as it’s a replica of the Pilgrim’s trading p...
The Warrior Muse

Damien Larkin's Release: Blood Red Sand - *Mars will run red with Nazi blood…* After World War Two, Sergeant McCabe knew the British army could send him anywhere. He never imagined facing dow...
Sandwalk

Mutation, Randomness, & Evolution - I just received my copy of a book by Arlin Stoltzfus on mutation. I haven't finished reading it but I thought *Sandwalk* readers should know about it so ...
Yesterday’s Papers

The Fun Factory – - of Farringdon Street The Fun Factory of Farringdon Street, by UK comics historian Alan Clark (author of Comics, an Illustrated History with Laurel Clark, 1...
Boston 1775

“My Daughter, which she really is, tho’ but an adopted one” - This story came up (in my head at least) during yesterday’s online presentation from King’s Chapel about how the Revolution affected members of that Angli...
Lowell Doughboys and more...

Night Before Christmas in the English Channel in 1944 - The big push in World War II against the Germans was at a fever pitch. Troops were being transported across the English Channel to replenish the troops a...
The Accidental Genealogist

Celebrating 15 Years of Blogging as The Accidental Genealogist - Today The Accidental Genealogist turns 15! Fifteen years is a fairly long time to spend on an activity and I have enjoyed using this platform to share m...
Our New England Heritage

New England Colonists 1600-1700 Hart-Haynor - *Hart* Edmund came with Winthrop's Fleet in 1630 to Weymouth, MA. Ephraim was the preceding's brother who is found to be residing in Weymouth by 163...
GenealogyMagazine.com

Was Your Ancestor a Tavernkeeper? - If your ancestor was a taverner or innkeeper, you might locate records of his or her proprietorship (such as receipts, licenses, and account books) at [....
William & Mary Dyer

Lincolnshire magazine posts Dyer hometown connection - *Copyright 2021 by Christy K Robinson * In the spring of 2021, I was asked to write a 600-word magazine article on William Dyer and Kirkby LaThorpe, the ...
Black Raven Genealogy

Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here (re: readers on email) - Google provides the platform I use for this blog and towards the end of April, they sent me the following message: 'You are receiving this information bec...
Betty's Boneyard Genealogy Blog

DNA Connections to Descendants of WILLIAM RICKARD 1743-1782 & JOANNA VARLEY of Kenwyn, Cornwall, England - Cordelia Rickard Myers Brown 1829 Cornwall, England-1875 Sacramento, California Very early on in my genetic genealogy research, I discovered that I ha...
Letters to My Grandparents

Ezra Sill DAR Patriot - Dear Grandparents, For the last five or so years, I have been serving as the Registrar for my Daughters of the American Revolution Chapter (NSDAR). This is...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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The Mayflower Billington Brothers Dubbed First Juvenile Delinquents in America

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