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Boston 1775

Dr. Dexter’s Boys - When Lydia (Woods Dexter) Curtis died at the end of 1772, her three surviving sons were all in their late teens, of age to be apprentices. They may theref...
Daytonian in Manhattan

The James B. Thomson House - 203 West 14th Street - Like the other homes along 14th Street west of fashionable Union Square, the row of houses at the northwest corner of Seventh Avenue were upscale. ...
Cause of Liberty

When Will Parents Get Some Breaks? - Parents, communities, and nations have a God-given responsibility to protect children and youth from predators of all kinds. Yet, the task gr...
Christopher Setterlund, In My Footsteps

In My Footsteps: You Don't Get the Time Back - There are so many buzzword catchphrases that I could start this off with. “Never leave things unsaid.” “Always make time.” “Tomorrow is never guaran...
OLD PHOTOS FOUND

WELLS brothers, Clarence and Harold (Houston TX) - Clarence Asa Wells & Harold Earl Wells IDENTIFICATION ON PHOTO 1: Clarence Asa Wells, age 4 1/2 months IDENTIFICATION ON PHOTO 2: Harold Earl Wells, ...
THE CABINET CARD GALLERY

YOUNG WOMAN WEARING WIRE RIMMED GLASSES IN CEDAR FALLS, IOWA - A young woman wearing wire rimmed glasses is the subject of this portrait by C. Sorensen. Sorensen operated a studio in Cedar Falls, Iowa. The woman in th...
Olive Tree Genealogy Blog

Anyone Need to Cast a Spell? Magical Poppet Found in a Chimney - The strange little 19th century doll which is currently on display in the History Room of the Black and White House Museum was found in a crevice of the br...
Abbeville Institute

Was Secession Treason? - Recently an acquaintance of mine remarked that the Confederate statue in her hometown should be removed from its present place of honour and relocated to t...
Civil War Notebook

$100 REWARD. - From the Subscriber, living in Fayette county, Ky., on the night of the 14th of October, a negro boy named JOHN KIDD. He was taken up and put in the jail ...
Nutfield Genealogy

Genealogy Research in New England During the Pandemic: What’s Open? How is the Records Access? - I haven’t been out much during these last five or six months to research in-person. Most of my personal genealogy work has been online, or some day trip...
The Magpie Mason

'A point within a city' - The Nat Sherman Townhouse closed permanently this afternoon at 3:45, just one act in the tragedy of the near complete dissolution of the 90-year-old in...
Thomas Gardner of Salem, MA

175th for the NEHGS - We have mentioned the NEHGS several times. For one, they did the Great Migration Project. Also, they were involved heavily with the planning of the Mayflow...
Genealogical Musings

Why All the Scotland? - Since AncestryDNA's latest update introduced Scotland as it's own population, separate from Ireland, separate from England, lots of people are getting un...
My Tapley Tree...and its Branches

Time Capsule Tuesday - I liked the time capsule genealogy fun post so much that I have decided to make it a regular feature here on the blog! So welcome to the first Time Cap...
Historic New England

Historic New England wins prestigious Save America’s Treasures grant - The National Park Service’s Save America’s Treasures program recently awarded a $165,000 grant to Historic New England for Hamilton House in South Berwic...
Bookman's Log

Too Much of a Good Thing? - Well, I’ve made three sales after the first three days of the Brooklyn Virtual Antiquarian Book Fair. Results reported by colleagues are as mixed as they...
In Times Past

Communal Living: A Different Way - COUNTERCULTURE INVASION: In the late 1960s and early 1970s, thousands of young people dropped out of mainstream society and migrated to Northern New ...
Black Raven Genealogy

Mary Anne Hynes meets Jerome Rodoreda - So, if my suspicions are correct, Mary Anne Hynes arrived in Western Australia, unexpectedly, on 24 March 1854, and realised she had no way of getting t...
Heirlooms Reunited

1901 and 1901 documents certifying that Grace McKeen was eligible to advance to the next grade; Woburn, Massachusetts; teacher Jennie Pauline Chapman - Two documents from the Woburn, Massachusetts School Committee, one dated June 27, 1900 and the other June 28, 1901, certifying that Grace McKeen was e...
Massachusetts and More Genealogy Blog

John Soule abt 1632 to by November 1707 and wife Rebecca Simmons of Plymouth and Duxbury, Massachusetts - John Soule was born Plymouth about 1632, son of Mayflower passenger George Soule and his wife Mary Becket. I wrote about George and Mary here. John’s b...
Yesterday’s Papers

A Crowded Life in Comics – - A Black and White Orphan’s World… and Gray Too. by Rick Marschall. When I was in my mid-teens I wrote a fan letter to Harold Gray. Already a long-time comi...
The Accidental Genealogist

Back to School Sale: Save 30% on all Research Write Connect Courses - September is here and it is the unofficial end of summer. As students are heading back to school, it is also time to think about your own genealogy educa...
The Warrior Muse

IWSG - Progress - It's the first Wednesday of September, which means we're creeping up on my favorite season of the year: Autumn. It also means it's time for the Insecure...
Ancestry Island

A Courthouse Fire: Hancock County, Georgia (August 14, 2014) - My Warren ancestors moved to Hancock County in the late 18th century and my direct lineage remained there until about 1830. I've been indebted to Family Se...
West in New England

53 ANCESTORS #10: JOHN: GIDDINGS. OF IPSWICH, MA. - My 9x great grandfather John Giddings was born in England abd became a leading citizen of both Ipswich and the colony. William Richard Cutter give the foll...
Letters to My Grandparents

Evert Van Eps and the Battle of Oriskany - Dear Grandfather Evert, Yesterday, August 6th, was the 243rd anniversary of the Battle of Oriskany. Though I am certain you well remember the day, I thi...
Sandwalk

Alan McHughen defends his views on junk DNA - Alan McHughen is the author of a recently published book titled *DNA Demystified*. I took issue with his stance on junk DNA [More misconceptions about jun...
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 ...
Our New England Heritage

New England Colonists, 1600-1700 Graham-Greenland - *Graham* Benjamin was a resident of Hartford, Conn.. James was at Boston as the Attorney General *Grame* Samuel was a pewterer at Boston in 1642. An old Ne...
Betty's Boneyard Genealogy Blog

JAMES JASPER BRUTON - DNA does it again! Another family mystery solved, and more cousins found. *JAMES JASPER BRUTON* was my great uncle, the brother of my grandmother *MINTTIE ...
Quilt Crossing

For My Father - I was blessed to have a wonderful father. He has been gone four years now and I still miss him every day, especially on Father's Day. A few years ago, ...
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...
William & Mary Dyer

Book excerpt from Mary Dyer: For Such a Time as This - If you’re a descendant or admirer of the people mentioned in this chapter, you’re already primed to appreciate the historical research and writing expert...
Quixotic Joust

- Kenneth Burnstine's Strange Life and Associates *Who Was John Birch?* Checking this blog's timeline indicates that in October 2013 my research concerned t...
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...
AnceStories: The Stories of My Ancestors

Before MLK, There Was Elizabeth Peratrovich - *Seventy-five years ago today, the first anti-discrimination law was signed on American soil.* *It was more than two decades before the Civil Rights Act. B...
Life From The Roots

Two Genealogy Friends: Both Wrote Genealogy Books, Were Born in Lowell, MA and Died the Same Week - Since December 19, 2019, I have known four people who died. This was unusual because two were related to my husband and three were genealogists. Because I ...
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...
Miller-Anderson Histories

Arnold family pictures -
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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