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Lab leak conspiracy theory rears its ugly head again: this time it's Nicholas Wade of the New York TImes. - Nicholas Wade used to be a serious science writer but he lost that title many years ago when he proved that he was incapable of distinguishing fact from ...
Olive Tree Genealogy Blog

Find Ancestors in Almshouse & Poorhouse Records - Discharge Ledger 1923-1926 Almshouses (also known as poorhouses, or hospital) are charitable housing provided to impoverished people in a community. Almsh...
THE CABINET CARD GALLERY

AILEEN DAVIES AS MAD MARGARET IN “RUDDIGORE” : D’OYLY CARTE OPERA COMPANY - This vintage real photo postcard features actress and singer, Miss Aileen Davies (1902-1981). At first glance, this image appears to be a photograph of a p...
Boston 1775

Lt. Col. Abijah Brown in the Fight - After Lt. Col. Abijah Brown and his Waltham company reported to the Massachusetts army at Cambridge in late May 1775, there was a question of what regimen...
Daytonian in Manhattan

The Charles C. Nevers House - 354 West 23rd Street - The parlor floor (now second floor) windows originally extended to the floor. A high stone stoop sat in front of the current entrance. In 1853 Charles...
The Warrior Muse

IWSG - Finally Some News - New Release! - It's time for the May Insecure Writer's Support Group! Created by *Alex J. Cavanaugh*, the IWSG exists to give and seek support about our insecurities. ...
Cause of Liberty

Did Biden Make False or Misleading Statements about Immigration and Border? - Last Friday, President Joe Biden was interviewed by NBC News about immigration and the border crisis. Experts say that the President made “nu...
Abbeville Institute

Robert E. Lee: The Soldier - “He [Lee] was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring…a Chri...
Christopher Setterlund, In My Footsteps

In Their Footsteps: Cape Cod History - How Mashnee Island Became A Village - Off the coast of Bourne is a peninsula capped off by a fist-shaped land mass dotted with homes containing spectacular views. Along Mashnee Road it i...
Nutfield Genealogy

Bucket List Genea Meme Revisited 2021 - Back in 2012 Jill Ball, the blogger at Geniaus www.Geniaus.com , had started a meme that was rather fun. She encouraged us to list our favorite genea...
Civil War Notebook

Captain Charles Wright Wills: March 1, 1865 - Left Bank Lynch's Creek, March 1, 1865. We have finally got across this deuced creek. It has delayed us fully four days, more than any three rivers did bef...
The Magpie Mason

‘The Order of the Phantom Knighthood’ - Why can’t the makers of crappy movies leave us alone?Incidentally, this is the kind of nonsense inspired by silly neo-templarism.
Massachusetts and More Genealogy Blog

William Hammond (1568-1662) and Elizabeth Paine (1580-1670) of Watertown, Massachusetts - William Hammond was baptized Lavenham, Suffolk, England 30 October 1575, the son of Thomas and Rose (Trippe) Hammond. St, Peter and St. Paul Church, L...
Bookman's Log

The $25 Book – Redux - [image: The $25 Book – Redux] A few months ago I wrote about a shelf of books someone had dropped off. They were too good to throw away, but not worth enou...
GenealogyMagazine.com

Comedians on “Finding Your Roots” - “Laughing on the Inside,” an upcoming episode of Finding Your Roots, tells the family stories of two comedians, Grammy-winner Lewis Black and Roy Wood Jr...
Thomas Gardner of Salem, MA

Two different times - TL;DR - The 400th can be split into the 250th plus others on both sides of that divide. There are many categorizations for analysis that do not get much ...
Black Raven Genealogy

A to Z April Challenge: Z is for Zilch - Genealogists always want to know where their ancestors are buried. It’s not just to see what else they might learn from their gravesites. It’s more than t...
Historic New England

“RainKeep Three Sisters” sculpture coming to Casey Farm - A shiny aluminum, yellow, and purple modern sculpture in the Casey Farm landscape: RainKeep Three Sisters Imagine visiting Casey Farm in Saunderstown, R....
Our New England Heritage

An Amazing Journey....Rereleased - https://www.amazon.com/Amazing-Journey-Wondrous-Trek-Through/dp/179644247X Please find above a link to my rerelease of the biggest seller to date ...
In Times Past

Wood There Be - BOBBIN CAPITAL: Between 1872 and 1967, East Corinth's bobbins mills were among the world's foremost producers of bobbins for the textile industry. P...
Life From The Roots

Sometimes you Need to Make a Second Trip to a Cemetery, Thanks to the Sun! - Rowley Burial Ground, Main Street Rowley, Essex Co., Massachusetts The above photo was taken on my first visit to the Cemetery, which was in combination ...
West in New England

THE SHOT HEARD ROUND THE WORLD - Today is the 246th Anniversary of the Battles of Lexington & Concord which started the American Revolution on 19Apr 1775. These are our colonial ancesto...
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...
Yesterday’s Papers

Gone fishing – -
The Accidental Genealogist

Female Ancestor Profile: Remembering Emilia - *[This post was written by my cousin, Renata C. in loving memory of her mum, Emilia who recently passed away.]* [image: Wedding Dance Photo] [Renata C. a...
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...
Betty's Boneyard Genealogy Blog

Adventures in Genetic Genealogy: That's a Lot of Fraziers! - In 2011, I received my first autosomal DNA test results from 23andMe. Since then, I have been carefully compiling my matches with descendants of my ...
Letters to My Grandparents

- Dear Grandparents, Happy Anniversary to Joseph and Mehitable (Young) Sanford my 5th great grandparents who were married March 7, 1769. Joseph, the son o...
Heirlooms Reunited

1894 to 1898 Booklets Detailing Road Repair Taxes for Townships in Aroostook County, Maine - 1894 to 1898 booklets detailing the road repair taxes due from residents and non residents of townships in Aroostook County, Maine. Click *here* to see ...
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...
William & Mary Dyer

Anne Hutchinson featured in television documentary - In 2019, six documentary film producers were tasked with researching and filming six hour-long segments on the spread of Christianity across the world...
Genealogical Musings

Augusta's Confederate Monument and My Family History - Sometimes, genealogy and modern politics have some overlap. In Augusta, Georgia, a giant, imposing obelisk stands as a memorial to Confederate soldiers....
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...
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...
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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