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Daytonian in Manhattan

The 1845 Jacob A. Conover House - 735 Washington Street - *photograph by the author* Grocer Charles Crane's store and residence were located at 734 and 736 Washington Street in 1844 when Richard Halliday's est...
Yesterday’s Papers

F. OPPER'S THANKSGIVING DILEMMA - To be a comic artist, thankful for ONE new idea! by Rick MarschallThe great Frederick Burr Opper was a mainstay of the comic-art staff of Puck Magazine whe...
Cause of Liberty

Can the Trump Administration Rescue the Missing Children? - Families, communities, states, and nations are stronger when all children are protected. According to a retired Border Patrol agent, the government of th...
Sandwalk

Kostas Kampourakis cautions us against teaching Mendelian genetics - A few weeks ago I put up a post on Were you lied to in your genetics class?. At the time I thought it was just a fringe view being expressed by a graduat...
Civil War Notebook

John Tyler to John Rutherford, November 1, 1861 - SHERWOOD FOREST, Nov. 1, 1861. MY DEAR SIR: Your letter has been duly received, and I have read with the highest pleasure your article in the Enquirer of...
THE CABINET CARD GALLERY

HELENA MODJESKA : POLISH AND AMERICAN ACTRESS : SHAKESPEARE : CABINET CARD 1889 - This cabinet card photograph features Polish actress, Helena Modjeska (1840-1909). She was known for her Shakespearean and tragic roles. She began her care...
Abbeville Institute

That’s What I Like About the South - In 2018, the Abbeville Institute hosted a Summer School on Southern music. I gave a talk titled “That’s What I Like About the South” based on the song writ...
The Magpie Mason

‘Prestonian on Craftcast’ - Craftcast hosts with today’s guest.In the episode of Craftcast published today, the hosts talk with RW Simon Medland, who has been chosen to serve as t...
Nutfield Genealogy

The New Baltimore Welcome Center for Weathervane Wednesday - This weathervane was photographed at a rest area on the New York Thru Way In September we traveled down south to see the Shenendoah National Park and ...
Thomas Gardner of Salem, MA

Nobel, Medicine, 2024 - TL;DR -- This is the third of three gifts from the Nobel Committee. Starting with the math of machine learning and then with the chemistry work with prot...
Massachusetts and More Genealogy Blog

Henry Howland ca 1603-1671 of Fenstanton, England and Duxbury, Mass. - Henry was born about 1603 (based on estimated age at marriage), probably in Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire, the son of Henry and Margaret Howland. His broth...
Bookman's Log

Dirty Water II - [image: Dirty Water II] I’ve had more prosperous ABAA Bostons, but this was one of the pleasantest. From where I sat, Julie Roper and the Capricorn staff, ...
Christopher Setterlund, In My Footsteps

Initial Impressions 2.0 Blog: #42 - Daylight Savings, Hornet Ambush, Who Are You?, etc. - 1. Why do we still have Daylight Savings Time? The first day of ‘falling back’ left us with a sunset time at 4:34pm. Combine that with the temperature...
AnceStories: The Stories of My Ancestors

That Time Grandpa Martin Blew Up the Schoolhouse and Uncle Ike Shot a Bull - In my children's father's family, there had long been a story about how my former mother-in-law's maternal grandfather had blown up the schoolhouse because...
In Times Past

Not Just A Club - FUTURE FARMERS ALUM: Orford's Paul Messer was the Orford High School's FFA president from 1956-1958. Shown here with his traditional FFA blue and gold ...
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...
Historic New England

Now accepting applications for Edward F. Gerber Preservation Fund - The Edward F. Gerber Urban Preservation Fund supports the preservation of private historic homes in Connecticut. The fund allows Historic New England to ...
OLD PHOTOS FOUND

REBBE, Herman and Emma (Chester, IL) - IDENTIFIED AS: "Emma & Herman Rebbe" PHOTO TAKEN: Welge Studio, Chester Illinois, circa 1900-1902 PURCHASED: Sep 2024, Bright's Antique Mall, Franklin K...
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...
Betty's Boneyard Genealogy Blog

My Great Grandparents FRANK R BROWN & MARY ETTA KENNEDY An Archive of Photos from the Apollo Mine, Unga Island Alaska PART THREE - Here is a continuation of my archive of photos from the Apollo Mine, Unga Island, Alaska. This part of the collection is circa 1894-1900. Some originals...
Quilt Crossing

Tiny Nine Patch Update - Back in January, I started making Tiny Nine Patch blocks as part of a challenge issued on Instagram. The details are in this blog post.. I went cruising...
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*.
Old Blue Genes

The Mazingo Family - The Mazingos of Mississippi and Alabama have been a southern family for hundreds of years. It appears that the name comes from "MOZINGO" faimly of Virgin...
My Other Blog

Peder P. Moe - Short Biography - Peder Moe, North Dakota Pioneer Peder Moe was born on September 28, 1858 in Hafslo, Norway. In 1864, at the age of six, he came to America with his parents...
Ancestry Island

Fantastic Find: Ancestry's New Free Database May Help Fill Historical Gaps for Black Americans - On my way home yesterday I was listening to NPR's All Things Considered and one of their feature stories was titled: *This database could help descendants ...
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* ...
Naval Heritage Society Dockyard

I don't want to - So it's official, we are incorporated and off and running. The inaugural muster went off pretty well and we are formally an organization now. We capp...
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...
William & Mary Dyer

Mary Dyer was NOT hanged for “being a Quaker” - *© 2012, 2024 Christy K Robinson* *This article is copyrighted. Copying, even to your genealogy pages, is prohibited by US and international law. You may...
Letters to My Grandparents

Finding more about Eliel Melton and Family using new tools at FamilySearch.org - Dear Grandparents, Yesterday was the 188th anniversary of the Battle of the Alamo. Our son-in-law Chris' 4th great uncle Eliel Melton was serving as Qua...
Phelps Family Research Team

Midnight darkness - All I can think about is how can I not spend an eternity with this woman without divorce, which would impoverish both of us. I think about fixing the trai...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 -
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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