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The Mayflower Billington Brothers Dubbed First Juvenile Delinquents in America

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Daytonian in Manhattan

The 1903 Flynt (Stiehl) Building - 28-30 West 20th Street - Prosper Montgomery Wetmore, who lived at 28 West 20th Street, was typical of the residents of the block between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in the 19th cen...
Nutfield Genealogy

Auburn, New Hampshire Honor Rolls - The Auburn, New Hampshire War Monument Today's Honor Roll photographs and transcriptions are from volunteer Sandra Dahlfred. They cover the Civil War,...
Abbeville Institute

President Grant’s Free Homes - Although most modern biographies attribute the corruption in Grant’s Administration to venal advisors who took advantage of the President’s innocent naiv...
Cause of Liberty

What Are the Solutions to Mass Shootings? - Mass murders continue to take place, and they are more frequent as time passes. Ten days ago, an 18-year-old White man traveled several hours...
The Magpie Mason

‘Explore gastronomical Gettysburg’ - I’ll go ahead and guarantee you’ll be more enthusiastic about the meal than this.For the 159th anniversary of the decisive day of the Battle of Gettysb...
Our New England Heritage

300 Year Old Riddle Solved? - After 300-plus years of defying scholarly debate and research, The answer to a life-long obsession by me and many others has finally come to a close. ...
The Warrior Muse

May Submission Roundup & Conference Updates - I had a busy few weeks, with Pikes Peak Writers Conference at the end of April and StokerCon two weeks later. Funnily, I was anxious about attending each...
THE CABINET CARD GALLERY

FRENCH SOLDIERS & THEIR ANTIQUE AUTOMOBILE: 2 WEEKS BEFORE THE BATTLE OF FRANCE - This vintage snapshot features four French soldiers and an antique car. I believe the car is a Citroen, but, I wouldn’t bet on it. The soldiers appear to b...
Thomas Gardner of Salem, MA

Pony Express - TL;DR -- American stories can be real and interesting; most major themes are universal and apply across the scope of humanity. So, what's special? People...
Heirlooms Reunited

31 Photographs of the Barber Family of the Newbury, Vermont, area, and nearby New Hampshire, including some Relatives back in England - 31 photographs found loose in an album, mostly pertaining to children and other relatives of *Charles Barber (1839-1922)*, who emigrated from England to Ve...
Massachusetts and More Genealogy Blog

Obadiah Eddy ca 1645 to ca 1727 and his wife Bennet Ellis of Plymouth, Sandwich and Middleborough, Massachusetts - Obadiah Eddy was born about 1645, probably in Plymouth, Massachusetts, the son of Samuel and Elizabeth (maiden name unknown) Eddy. I wrote about Samue...
Bookman's Log

Look What I Found! - [image: Look What I Found!] Whenever I come home from a book fair, I set my purchases aside for collation and inspection. If a previously undetected flaw e...
Civil War Notebook

William T. Sherman to George Mason Graham, July 23, 1860 - LOUISIANA STATE SEMINARY, Alexandria, July 23, 1860. DEAR GENERAL: Charles whom we sent for the mail has just returned without the mail, but had your Sunda...
Christopher Setterlund, In My Footsteps

In Their Footsteps: Do You Remember These Restaurant Chains on Cape Cod? - A chain restaurant is an establishment with many locations under the same company’s ownership. A similar business model is that of the franchise whe...
My Tapley Tree...and its Branches

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - How Many Find a Grave Entries? - *From Randy (a cousin discovery!!) over at **Genea-Musings:* it's *Saturday Night* - time for more *Genealogy Fun!!!* Your mission, should you decide t...
Historic New England

“Watch This Space: Expressions of Queer Ecology by Maine College of Art & Design Alumni” at Jewett House - Watch This Space: Expressions of Queer Ecology opens at Sarah Orne Jewett House Museum and Visitor Center in South Berwick, Maine on June 3, 2022 The exh...
Life From The Roots

Derry Public Library, Derry, New Hampshire - 64 E Broadway #2414, Derry, NH 03038 603) 432-6140 *The History of the Derry Public Library* The Derry Public Library opened on August 10, 1905 w...
Sandwalk

Wikipedia editors want to supress an article on junk DNA - I've been trying to fix the Wikipedia artilce on Noncoding DNA but it's quite a challenge because the page is controlled by editors who are opposed to ju...
OLD PHOTOS FOUND

PERKINS, Anna Belle (Bangor ME) - INDENTIFICATION ON PHOTO: "Anna B. Perkins, U. of M." PHOTO TAKEN: Chalmers Studio, Bangor ME, circa 1912 PHOTO ACQUIRED: May 2022 Athens Schoolhouse...
In Times Past

Roads to Somewhere: History of Area Roads - WORKING OUT CONSTRUCTION--old and new. The top photo shows Newbury residents along the North Road working to construct the road. Adjacent landowners we...
West in New England

MOTHERS DAY Pt. 2 - In honor of Mother's Day, here are pictures of our Dad's female ancestors. First, on his mother's side: Amos H Barker & Betsey J (Moore) Barker Ou...
AT THE RIVERBEND

What Happened to the Headdress? A Spoering Family Mystery - About five years ago, I wrote this post about German Wedding Traditions, brought about by a photo I found of myself, dancing in the hog trough at my young...
Library History Buff Blog

The 1982 Library of Congress Stamp - On this day (April 21, 1982) forty years ago the United States Postal Service issued a stamp honoring the Library of Congress. It was significant in that...
Ancestry Island

Almost done with ProGen! - All of my genealogical energies lately have been directed to my course work (study work?) for the ProGen Study Group (I'm in ProGen 52!), and I've neglecte...
GenealogyMagazine.com

News anchor, fashion icon, and actress appear on “Finding Your Roots” - Erin Burnett, André Leon Talley, and Amy Carlson are Dr. Henry Louis Gates’s guests on Finding Your Roots, airing Tues., April 19, 2022, at 8 [...] The p...
Olive Tree Genealogy Blog

Obituary William Hanna 1920 - In Dunn Township Ontario William Hanna age 83 interment Riverside CemeterySearch for more information in genealogy records on Ancestry.com, Ancestry.ca ...
Genealogical Musings

More Ethnicity Updates from AncestryDNA - AncestryDNA is maintaining their annual ethnicity updates, and it's a little early this year. But it's a new kind of update - rather than the usual chang...
Yesterday’s Papers

Aesop's Fables Modernized, Paul Terry, 1921. Paul Terry Portrait, Oct 1926. - ❦❦❦❦
Old Blue Genes

Shaws & Plummers of Raymond Maine - I will try to assemble information about these interrelated old families in Raymond & Windham Maine. Barbara Plummer (born 1923) was an 'adopted' daughte...
The Accidental Genealogist

Preserving a Female Ancestor's Photographs with Vivid-Pix Memory Station - Are precious details about the lives of your female ancestors hidden in old family photographs? Most of us have bins or boxes of treasured memories just...
William & Mary Dyer

Mary Dyer 'shined in the image of God' - *© 2022 Christy K Robinson* *John Taylor's journal was published in London in 1710*. In 2013, I did some background reading on the conversion experienc...
Black Raven Genealogy

1921 Census of England & Wales - Wynne household - There was huge excitement among many genealogists this week with the publication of the 1921 census for England & Wales. I didn't expect to find any direc...
James Pylant

The Murders at Starved Rock: Prosecutor’s Son Reexamines 1960 Crime - David Raccuglia is best known as the founder of American Crew, the leading professional men’s grooming brand in the world. He’s also known for capturing f...
Betty's Boneyard Genealogy Blog

Dryden & Toher family photos 1860s-1880s California - My grandmother, RUBY BOLTON BROWN, had an older sister GLADYS ADELINE BROWN who married JOSEPH BURTON DRYDEN in 1912 in San Francisco, California. Back ...
Lowell Doughboys and more...

Major General Ernest N Harmon - Lowell's Own "Hell on Wheels" - Ernest Nason Harmon was born in Lowell, Massachusetts on February 26, 1894 to Ernest Josiah and Junietta (Spaulding) Harmon. The family lived in Pawtucke...
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...
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...
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 ...
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. ...
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...
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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