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Thomas Gardner of Salem, MA

Science and AI - TL;DR -- Wherein we look at an old problem which has new twists due to technology and its new ways. Media and news morph information severely. -- Now, I...
Daytonian in Manhattan

The Gottlieb Building - 32 East 58th Street (611 Madison Avenue) - In 1875, as the city expanded further northward in the post-Civil War years, builder and real estate developer Linus Scudder erected a row of five ups...
Cause of Liberty

What Is America’s Future? - Mobs have been rioting in the streets of America for years. They began with the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States. They continue...
West in New England

ON THIS DATE: NOV.28th - ON THIS DATE: BIRTHS: 28 Nov 1739 6x ggf Hezekiah Boyden was born in Worcester, Ma. 28 Nov 1852 ggf John McFarland was born in Ireland. MARRIAGES: 28 No...
Life From The Roots

A Walk Along Dutton St., Merrimack St. and Several Side Streets in Lowell, MA - Recently a photo was posted to a Lowell Facebook site. There were many comments as to where it was taken, some shared a memory or two and then there was ...
Nutfield Genealogy

Infants Joseph and Benjamin Cummings, died 1774, Merrimack, New Hampshire - Tombstone Tuesday - This tombstone was photographed at Turkey Hill Cemetery in Merrimack, New Hampshire. Here lies the Bodys of 2 Children Joseph and Benjamin Cummings Sons...
Abbeville Institute

What is the Future of the Southern Tradition? - What is the future of the Southern tradition? This question presents a pressing problem for Americans in the twenty-first century. To those who reduce the ...
THE CABINET CARD GALLERY

NORA HAMILTON : PRETTY PERFORMER : DU CHATELET THEATRE : BROADWAY :UNCOMMON RPPC - This uncommon vintage real photo postcard features Nora Hamilton. She was a stage performer. Very little biographical information about Miss Hamilton could...
Historic New England

Spend time with us this winter - During the winter months, there are plenty of exciting activities and experiences to enjoy. From historic house tours and beautiful landscapes to special...
Sandwalk

ChatGPT gets two-thirds of science textbook questions wrong: time to bring it into the classroom! - The November 16th issue of *Nature* has an article about ChatGPT: ChatGPT has entered the classroom: how LLMs could transform education. It reports that ...
Quilt Crossing

Season of Trees - It's the time of year when lots of people are putting up their Christmas trees, but I've also been creating some trees in my sewing room. It started when...
Christopher Setterlund, In My Footsteps

Top 5 Massachusetts Inventions: In My Footsteps Podcast Episode 121 - Some pretty amazing things were created in the state of Massachusetts. In this segment from Episode 121 of the In My Footsteps Podcast we take a look...
The Magpie Mason

‘New book: The Silver Matchbox’ - A Masonic achievement award named for a smoking implement is bound to catch my attention, and now there is a book on the Silver Matchbox. I don’t know ...
Ancestry Island

- *Happy Thanksgiving!* Kate Jarvik Birch (American, born 1977) Untitled [Cranberry Sauce], 2020 Gouache on paper, 6 x 6 inches. Private collection (Found on F...
Civil War Notebook

The Late Tragedy, published March 17, 1859 - We have omitted to comment upon the late horrid tragedy, and the circumstances which lead to it, from an aversion to enter into details which are revolti...
OLD PHOTOS FOUND

MARSHALL Children (Ewing IL) - Opal, Willie & Seba Marshall IDENTIFICATION ON PHOTO: Opal, Willie and Seba MARSHALL PHOTO TAKEN: unknown studio, circa 1899 PHOTO ACQUIRED: June 2023...
Bookman's Log

The Fingerless Navigator - [image: The Fingerless Navigator] New employee Jared has been making great strides traversing our *Island of Forgotten Books.* In just a couple of months ...
In Times Past

Early Village Firefighting: Hard Lessons Learned - Organized around 1896, the volunteer Wells River Hose Company was equipped with hoses and a hose cart that members pulled to the scene of village fires...
Betty's Boneyard Genealogy Blog

Surname Saturday: MARTINE of Westchester Co NY, Rockland Co NY, Monroe Co NY, Racine Co WI and more - *UPDATED & CORRECTED 11/13/23* The surname MARTINE is of French Huguenot origin, and is my maternal grandfather's surname. The immigrant ancestor is *JEA...
Massachusetts and More Genealogy Blog

Samuel Freeman (1638-1712) of Watertown and Eastham and His Wife Mercy Southworth (1638-1712) - Samuel Freeman was born 11 May 1638 at Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, the son of Samuel and Apphia (Quick). He was about six years old when his par...
James Pylant

On the Run: Walter Turnbow’s Sprint from the Law - [image: Walter Turnbow] *In the early 1900s, Walter Turnbow (1877—1947), one of the colorful characters perched on my family tree, drew acclaim as one of...
Yesterday’s Papers

The Sporting Page – - Sid Smith sporting cartoon, Oct 15, 1909. Nearly every major cartoonist drew sporting cartoons at one time or another: Billy DeBeck, Bud Fisher, Geo. Herri...
Our New England Heritage

New England Colonists 1600-1700 Maddocks-Martin - *An interesting topic of just how bad this 1717 snow storm was. https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/great-snow-1717/* *Maddocks, Maddock, Matt...
The Warrior Muse

IWSG - Projects & Gary Robbe New Release - It's IWSG time! Created by *Alex J. Cavanaugh*, the Insecure Writer's Support Group serves to give writers a place to air their insecurities and suppo...
Letters to My Grandparents

Laurens Duyts - One of a 100 ancestors with an interesting life. - Dear Grandparents, In October 2002, my siblings and I traveled to be with our mother (Betty (Werst) Cone) to commemorate the 10th anniversary of our fath...
Lowell Doughboys and more...

The Sad Story of USS S-4 Navy Submarine & US Coast Guard Destroyer Paulding - On December 17, 1927 the USS S-4 (SS-109) Submarine was doing some test runs off the coast of Provincetown, MA. The US Coast Guard Destroyer Paulding was...
AnceStories: The Stories of My Ancestors

A Busy Day for Weddings in the HOLST and ROBBINS Families - I've been busy cleaning up items in the Downloads folder of my laptop. In many cases, I downloaded an image of a record from a genealogy or historical new...
GenealogyMagazine.com

Billy Crudup and Tamera Mowry on “Finding Your Roots” - Actors Billy Crudup and Tamera Mowry are guests on Finding Your Roots, hosted by Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., airing April 4, 2023, at 8 [...] The post Bill...
Erica's Adventures in Genealogy

Remember the Women! Part 3 - I made the decision to focus on the women when I head up our family tree. So many family history books tell you about the vital records of the men, ...
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 ...
Library History Buff Blog

Library Postcards for the Holidays - As a collector of postcards featuring libraries, I seek out those that are less typical. Few are less typical than those that have a winter holiday theme...
My Tapley Tree...and its Branches

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - My Thanksgiving Day - *From Randy (a cousin discovery!!) over at **Genea-Musings:* it's *Saturday Night* - time for more *Genealogy Fun!!!* Your mission, should you decide t...
My Other Blog

1950 Census - Another Milestone - Back in 2012, I was really excited about the release of the 1940 US Census - I called it once in a lifetime and it was. But low and behold, these past 10...
Genealogical Musings

Eurogenes K13 Charts and Maps - I know for many people like myself who are visual people, seeing a map of where exactly each region covers can be really beneficial to understanding your ...
AT THE RIVERBEND

Confusing Cousins - *It seems like a struggle to me to classify cousins into first, second, third, once removed, etc. * *It was always obvious to me that my first cousins w...
William & Mary Dyer

How did Mary Dyer ride away after her prison release? - *© 2022 Christy K Robinson* In the winter or early spring of 1657, Mary Dyer had returned from a four-year stay in England. Based on the timeline of a s...
Phelps Family Research Team

Looking for the family of a George Phelps whose name was given for Lake Phelps of Jackson Hole, Wyoming - Lake Phelps of Wyoming was named after a trapper, George Phelps, prospector and hunter (see the references below). If anyone has information about his...
Quixotic Joust

The Uvalde Connection to JFK Assassination - Back in 2015 (already seven years ago), I was following up for my own interest what I'd learned about Red Bird Airport in Dallas from Daniel Hopsicker's ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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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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 (...
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 thi...
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...
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