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THE CABINET CARD GALLERY

QUEENIE THOMAS : PRETTY ACTRESS WITH A HORSE : FAMOUS CINEMA STAR : BAS RELIEF - This vintage real photo postcard features British film actress, Queenie Thomas (1898-1977). She was married to British director Bertram Phillips. As an act...
Historic New England

Next Gen Museum Leaders: Grace Ann Arulanandam - In fall 2024, Historic New England launched Next Gen Museum Leaders, created to expand access to museum internships and support the future of the cultura...
Daytonian in Manhattan

The Theodore and Florence Sutro House - 320 West 102nd Street - *image via streeteasy.com* Alonzo B. Kight began his career in 1891, acting as both real estate developer and architect. The 1898 *A History of Real Est...
Nutfield Genealogy

A Visit to Fort Ticonderoga - Last month we drove over to Fort Ticonderoga, taking the ferry from Vermont. I had contacted the museum archives about an ancestor who had served the...
The Magpie Mason

‘Brent to bring Folger to Indianapolis’ - If you missed Brent Morris’ appearance at The American Lodge of Research six months ago, I suppose you could catch him in Indianapolis in October. The ...
Civil War Notebook

Brevet Major General George Sykes to Captain Porter Farley, August 5, 1872 - Fort Snelling, Minnesota, August 5, 1872. Captain Porter Farley, Rochester, New York. DEAR SIR: Your letter has just reached me through the War Department...
AnceStories: The Stories of My Ancestors

Labor Day 2026: Honoring My Carpenter and Joiner Ancestors - Credit: KateCox, Pixaby On this Labor Day, I would like to feature an occupation of many of my ancestors: carpentry and joinery. First, I would like to exp...
My Tapley Tree...and its Branches

Military Monday - *Robert Dale Miller * (1921-1995) U.S. Navy World War II and Korea
Christopher Setterlund, In My Footsteps

Initial Impressions 2.0 Blog #137: The Cabin Prologue - 1. For weeks leading up to my departure from Cape Cod to go produce my feature film, The Cabin, everything was smooth. The fundraiser went off without ...
Abbeville Institute

Two Southerners Who Stayed Southern - Originally published at From The Desk of Jon Harris On August 25, 2026, Dolly Parton passed away. Six days later, so did Wendell Berry. Both were known for...
Thomas Gardner of Salem, MA

KBE_ICAD_MSJO - TL;DR -- GenAI/LLM was on the horizon and now is actively involved day to day. Concerns for advanced software continue which need attention. Pushing forwar...
Massachusetts and More Genealogy Blog

Jonathan Bumpus, ca 1769 to 5 February 1847, of Wareham, Massachusetts, Husband of Martha Chubbuck: Was He the Son of Noah and Hannah Bumpus? - I wrote about Jonathan Bumpus in a 2013 blog post, at which time I had his parents as unknown since the information I previously believed about his paren...
Cause of Liberty

Articles of Faith: What Do Latter-day Saints Believe About the Fall of Adam 6? - *Article of Faith 2 * * We believe that men will be punished for their own sins,* * and not for Adam’s transgression.* This essay i...
Life From The Roots

65 Fall is Coming, So I want to Show the Foliage Colors in Lowell, Massachusetts -
Old Blue Genes

Mary Gardner Holland - MARY GARDNER HOLLAND (1825-1895) Mary Ann Gardner Holland dedicated her life to nursing others. She never married. Her devotion to nursing the Union ...
Sandwalk

What is "alternate RNA decoding"? - I recently came across a paper in *Nature* on alternate RNA decoding. It looked interesting so I read the abstract. That didn't help. I was still confuse...
And This Is Good Old Boston

Google Shmoogle - Google has sent me an email warning that since I haven't been on this site for a while, they're going to shut it down. When they demanded that I give th...
Bookman's Log

It’s That Time Again - [image: It’s That Time Again] Headed up to the shack in Cape Breton to try to finish a novel, catalog some wonderfully rare manuscript items, and get my an...
In Times Past

It Was Circus Season - In the 1890s. circus paarades such as this one in Montpelier, were regular summer events. WILD WEST EXTRAVAGANZA: Buffalo Bill Cody's Wi...
Quixotic Joust

Who Helped LBJ Become Rich in Radio? - A Whodunit If we want to know the truth about *who really done it*, we have to follow the money. LBJ's wealth was funneled to him through the newest tech...
OLD PHOTOS FOUND

TAYLOR, Alma and Cyrus (Fredonia, NY) - Alma & Cyrus Taylor IDENTIFIED AS: "Alma E. Taylor & Cyrus B. Taylor, grandparents of Paul Taylor" PHOTO TAKEN: unknown location (likely Fredonia NY),...
Betty's Boneyard Genealogy Blog

My Ancestors in the American Revolutionary War: A Summary--and one American Loyalist - So here's what I have learned: --There are 21 ancestors in my family tree who saw battle during the American Revolution, plus four who were active in ...
Ancestry Island

Brick Walls: Now and Forever? (Maybe not) - Every genealogist has them; those ancestors whose lives are not an open book, whose records (and sometimes even names) we haven't found anywhere we've look...
GenealogyMagazine.com

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Our New England Heritage

Almost 2 Years Since I Have Posted... - WOW!!! Looks like I need to get back to posting. I have spent the past couple years helping my son with his violin progression and have completely negle...
AT THE RIVERBEND

Jacob Newcomer - A Horrible Disease - Jacob Newcomer at age 67, Monroe, Michigan. Photo taken Oct. 16, 1899. I came across the death certificate for my great-great grand...
Yesterday’s Papers

RUDOLPH DIRKS, HANS, FRITZ, AND FATHER TIME - Happy New Year...andOld Years Too!ARS LONGA, VITA BREVIS ~~ Art is long; life is short.2025 has been a momentous year -- a cliche that doubtless is true f...
My Other Blog

Francis O'Neil and the O'Neil Family - Part 2 - The O'Neil Family, the Next Generations If you missed Part 1 of the story, go here . . . Francis O'Neil and Elizabeth Nevin came to America from Scotland...
Quilt Crossing

Tiny Town Nativity - I finished a second Tiny Town by Heart in Hand Needleart. This one is called Tiny Town Nativity. As usual, I had to "go rogue" and make a few changes to ...
Letters to My Grandparents

Amos Dye Outcast? - Dear Grandfather Dye, Started this last year, and though I love the idea of writing about an ancestor each week, I've given up. Still, I thought this was an...
Erica's Adventures in Genealogy

Upcoming Talks by Erica - I'll be giving two genealogy talks for the MSOG, Massachusestts Society of Genealogy, Middlesex Chapter on the 8th of February and the 8th of March. Here i...
Naval Heritage Society Dockyard

TIMBER!!! - Building boats takes a lot of lumber. And very specific types - the wrong selection will lead to problems later on. The problem for any boat builder is...
Genealogical Musings

Using AI to Transcribe and Translate Documents - Being able to upload an image of a document to AI and have it instantly and accurately transcribe the difficult to read handwriting or translate a foreig...
The Warrior Muse

Please go to my new blog! - Hi! I did my post over on my new blog today. You can find it *HERE*.
West in New England

ELISHA HOUGHTON HAD A GUN,,, AND THEN HE DIDN'T - *((Today is the 249th Anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill. Several of my ancestors took* *part in the battles, including my 5x great grandfather ...
Heirlooms Reunited

1835 Letter from E. Richardson, Cashier at Bangor Commercial Bank, Bangor, Maine; to C. Dole, Cashier at Citizens Bank in Augusta, Maine; Richardson is Resigning to become Cashier at Bank of Portland, Maine - August 17, 1835 letter from Edward Richardson (1809-1876), Cashier at *Bangor Commercial Bank* in *Bangor, Maine*, to *Carleton Dole (1798-1870)*, Cashier ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Northeastern North Carolina Stories

- *PINHOOK* *P*inhook was a small community in Durham County that, by 1906, was a suburb of the city of Durham. Why the place was called Pinhook...
James Pylant

The Mysterious Woman Upstairs - In November 1915 Mary Connor purchased a large two-story home in the small town of Newmarket, New Hampshire. Mary and her sister, Annie, moved there from...
William & Mary Dyer

Anne Marbury Hutchinson: American Founding Mother chapter excerpt - *© 2018 Christy K Robinson * *This article is copyrighted. Copying, even to your genealogy pages, is prohibited by US and international law. You may "shar...
Lowell Doughboys and more...

Greater Lowell Vietnam Honor Roll - Forty nine men from Greater Lowell served during the Vietnam War and lost their lives serving for the United States of America. We remember them today and ...
Compass

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Adventures with Jesus and Nemo

Jesus and Nemo visit Hiroshima - Hello friends, I know I was going to do a part II for Mostly Spring in Japan, but it has been so long I've decided to let that go. Even the best of us get ...
JDP News

Hug a Medievalist Day 2019 ~ Giveaway! - Welcome to my annual Hug a Medievalist Day Giveaway! To celebrate, I'm giving away 3 medieval themed prizes this year! First up, a copy of my sweet medi...
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....
Recollecting Nemasket

Otis Briggs House (1876) - The gable of the Otis Briggs House (1876) is visible behind the later addition that long housed Steve's Sports Den. A house on the site of 147 Cent...
Schow-Bickmore Histories

ANE JENSDATTER (HANSEN) 1813-1862 - Letter written by son-in-law, Frederik Sorensen Christensen staes that she and her other daughter, Karen's sister, died on the plains outside of Omaha, N...
INKSPOT Crime Fiction Blog | A Place for Mystery, Mayhem, Writing and Life

Twice Honored - *Edith here, still riding on a joy cloud!* Why am I riding on a joy cloud? I learned last week that *Called to Justice*, my second Quaker Midwife Mystery...
My Maine Ancestry

Tombstone Tuesday - Samuel & Hannah (Sawyer) Hilton - My 5th great-grandparents Samuel and Hannah (Sawyer) Hilton are buried in the Upper Gloucester Cemetery in New Gloucester, Maine. Samuel was born about 1...
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

Arnold family pictures -
Wadleigh-Brown-Plymale-Bixby

DNA Research - I’ve been fortunate that my family has a well-documented history, and I’ve been able to research most lines of my family tree back many generations. Becaus...
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) ...
Digging Down East

My 64 ~ Researching My Fourth Great Grandparents : Hans Hamilton and Jane Cottam - My fourth great grandfather, Hans (also spelled Hants) Hamilton, was born on January 1, 1780, in Truro, in Colchester County, Nova Scotia, the sixth so...
American History Now

King's Survey: Jay's Way - *In which a teacher prods a class to cast a cold eye on an American Dream * [image: imgres] OK, kids, so it's my understanding that Ms. Anthony and Mr. Kie...
Civil War Days & Those Surnames

Eldred Huff. - Push. *Captain Eldred Huff*, Fremont Co. Enl. Oct. 2, 1861; app. 3d Serg. on muster-in; prom. 1st Serg. Sep. 1, 1862; Capt. Feb. 3, 1863. Remained with t...
American Folk Art @ Cooperstown

Farmer Friday - Twenty-one years ago I took a strange trip south with the legendary Aggie Jones on a mission to purchase a work by Queena Stovall, the folk artist of th...
The Kith and Kin Chronicles

Somerled, King of the Isles and Man - *Note: The name for the Isle of Man is spelled variously as *“*Man*” *and *“ *Mann.*”* I have elected to use the former in this essay.* Consider Scottish ...
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 hist...
BIG OLD HOUSES

The Elegant Republic - This is Mt. Airy Plantation, a Palladian outpost in rustic America built in 1764 near the northern Virginia village of Warsaw. Although closely related, i...
The Northeast House Historian

ALERT: MA Registries Seek to Remove Requirement to Keep Original Records - I received an email from the Norfolk Registry of Deeds dated 29 May 2015 stating that Norfolk County Register of Deeds William P. O'Donnell recently testif...
Arkansas in the Civil War

Battle of Jenkins' Ferry 150th Anniversary - Monument at Jenkins' Ferry State Park Today (April 30, 2014) marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry, Arkansas. The last significant ...
Collectible Old Stocks and Bonds

Colonel Grover C. Criswell - Colonel Grover C. Criswell Center vignette of Col. Grover C. Criswell. Horse, flag and canon vignettes as well. Great multicolor!!! State: Florida Year...
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 Ta...
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...
The Gloucester I Love

Beauport Hotel Oral Presentation, March 12, 2013 - Beauport Hotel Oral Presentation 3/12/13 Tonight, our city, our citizens, and you, our elected city councilors find ourselves at a crossroad. Tonight, you a...
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 m...
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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Friday, October 24, 2014

Daytonian in Manhattan: The 1893 Chas. L. Colby House -- No. 8 East 69th S...