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Thursday, October 22, 2015

Obit Rev. William Allen Trenton New Jersey 1915

Friday, February 19, 1915 Trenton Evening Times

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William Irish born 4 May 1714 of Little Compton, RI and Rochester/Mattapoisett, MA, and His Wife Dinah Dexter - William Irish was born 4 May 1714 at Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island, the son of David and Martha (Nelson) Irish. [Newport County VR 4:6-131...
Daytonian in Manhattan

The Little Missionary's Day Nursery - 93 St. Mark's Place - The change of brick color testifies to the addition of the fourth floor around 1885. Like their neighbors, John Christopher Thatcher and his wife, the ...
Abbeville Institute

Notable Trees in Alabama - This piece was originally published in 1931 in the Montgomery Advertiser. God willed that even trees should have an individuality. In the world’s history, ...
Cause of Liberty

Why Do Companies Continue to Go Woke? - The liberty principle for this Freedom Friday is that woke-ism is not supported by most Americans, but companies continue to “go woke” even though other ...
Civil War Notebook

Last Will and Testament of John Wayles, April 15, 1760 - In the Name of God, Amen. I, John Wayles of Charles City County, make this my last Will and Testament. Imprimis, I give unto my dear wife Elizabeth all a...
Christopher Setterlund, In My Footsteps

2000: My Life In Poetry Form(Part 3) - Throwback Thursday - This is a weekly recurring series featuring five poems all written within the same calendar year. They capture a sense of what my life and mind were l...
Historic New England

Sustaining Our Past: Mending a Broken Zipper (Or, How I Came to Work at Historic New England) - Sustaining Our Past, written by Historic New England’s Director of Sustainability Joie Grandbois, explores Historic New England’s climate action efforts ...
Thomas Gardner of Salem, MA

St. Michael's, Trenton, NJ - TL;DR -- We mentioned General Washington and General Knox, earlier. One night and day versus several months of daily ordeal. Now, we can tied these togethe...
THE CABINET CARD GALLERY

ALMA BENNETT : RISQUÉ 1920s RPPC OF SILENT FILM ACTRESS : PATHE : IRIS VERLAG - This sepia-toned, real photo postcard features the glamorous silent film actress Alma Bennett (1904-1958) in a striking, risqué pose. Published by Iris Ver...
Nutfield Genealogy

A Lion Banner in Bruges, Belgium for Weathervane Wednesday - Today's weathervane was photographed in Bruges, Belgium. If you look close you can see the lion banner above the church steeple. Thank goodness for zoom...
My Other Blog

Margaret O'Neil - Part I - About the Women - Margaret O'Neil - Pioneer and Story Teller - Part 1 Margaret O'Neil might be just another name in a long list of names of my ancestors. An ordinary woman...
Bookman's Log

The Critical Mess - [image: The Critical Mess] I’m holed up in my shack in Cape Breton, working on my next masterpiece, and doing some reading and bike riding as well. One of ...
OLD PHOTOS FOUND

SUCHER Family of Oregon - SUCHER Family of Oregon IDENTIFICATION ON PHOTO: Wedding of William Edgar Thompson and Julia Alice Sucher PHOTO TAKEN: 28 Nov, 1894, Ogden, Iowa PHOTO LO...
In Times Past

Warm Weather Woes Part One - Journal Opinion July 30, 2025 The July 6, edition of *The Boston Post* declared the 1911 heat wave as "the worse weather disaster in New Engla...
Yesterday’s Papers

Your Portrait Drawn by C D Gibson For a Dollar! - The Good Old Days, When a Buck Could Buy...a Portrait of Yourself by a Legendary Illustratorby Rick Marschall"War... What's It Good For?" is a song from th...
Sandwalk

Endogenous retrovirus sequences can be transcriptionally active: the reality vs. the hype - A recent paper on characterizing endogenous retrovirus sequences has attracted some attention because of a press release from Kyoto University that focus...
Quixotic Joust

Barclays Bank History - A Genealogical Study of the Families Who Created Barclays Bank
AnceStories: The Stories of My Ancestors

The Story of Lost Lynn: Part 2 - *This is the second in a series about Lynn Walker Westaby, my children's paternal great-grandmother's uncle. When their great-grandmother was still alive, ...
Betty's Boneyard Genealogy Blog

Happy 4th of July 2025: My Revolutionary War Ancestors - Here is a list of my 35 Revolutionary War Ancestors, updated from 2023! Revolutionary War 1776-1783 *Mother's lineage* *JEREMIAH MARTINE* b 1734 Ta...
The Magpie Mason

‘A new year at The ALR’ - The American Lodge of Research’s 2025-26 officer team, installation team, members, visitors, and other well wishers last night in the French Doric Room...
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 ...
My Tapley Tree...and its Branches

Friday's Faces from the Past - Mary Elizabeth Tapley 1985 Graduate, Swainsboro High School, Swainsboro, Emanuel, Georgia, USA I turn 58 years old this month. Forty years afte...
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...
AT THE RIVERBEND

Grape School in 1901 with George, Guy and Harry Doty Attending - From the Evening News, March 9, 1963. Pictured are my great-grandfather, George Doty, from Raisinville, Michigan, and his brothers, Harry and Guy. Th...
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 ...
Our New England Heritage

New England Colonists 1600-1700 Merritt-Monk - *From https://thehistoryjunkie.com/5-common-jobs-in-colonial-rhode-island/#3-farmers* *A great little sight that my son used for school.* *Merritt* ...
Life From The Roots

Scramlin --- What a Difference Time Makes -- Using Google Photos - I used Google to search my surname Scramlin images on April 26, 2004. As you can see, from the above print, only seven images appeared. Fortunately, ther...
GenealogyMagazine.com

Brendan Fraser and Valerie Bertinelli on “Finding Your Roots” - Actors Brendan Fraser and Valerie Bertinelli are guests on “Forever Young,” an episode of Finding Your Roots, hosted by Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. Althoug...
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...
Ancestry Island

My Living DNA Has Been Updated! - Yesterday I received an email from Living DNA announcing that a free update was available for my 2017 ancestry results.* So I followed the link, requested ...
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...
Old Blue Genes

Patrick Mullarney of Glencullen - Patrick Mullarney (1844-1906) was brother to my 3rd great grandmother, Sarah Mullarney-Howlett. He was born in Ballymanus, County Wicklow to Thomas Mullar...
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...
And This Is Good Old Boston

Shocking Murder of Bandleader! - May 10, 1919 In the early years of the 20th century, James Reese Europe was probably the leading African American figure in popular music. Reese came to ...
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 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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Thursday, October 22, 2015

Obit Rev. William Allen Trenton New Jersey 1915