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Daytonian in Manhattan

The Lost Mail and Express Building - 203 Broadway - The Mail and Express Building towered over the corner buildings. * Real Estate Record & Guide, June 25, 1898 (copyright expired)* The *Real Estate Recor...
Abbeville Institute

Marxism and the Cultural Revolution - It will not have escaped many people’s attention that one of the main strategies in America’s “reckoning on race and Southern identity” involves depicting ...
Cause of Liberty

Will Congress Act to Stop Birthright Citizenship? - The topic of discussion for this Constitution Monday concerns birthright citizenship. President-elect Donald Trump wants to stop the unrestricted birthri...
THE CABINET CARD GALLERY

STRIKINGLY PRETTY SENECA NATIVE AMERICAN WOMAN : SALAMANCA, NEW YORK : 1914 - This vintage real photo postcard is striking. The photograph features a young attractive Native American woman. This photograph was taken by J. L. Blessing...
Christopher Setterlund, In My Footsteps

Chris Unfiltered: An AI TV Show Based On An Old Blog - While recording the next bonus podcast episode for my Patreon subscribers I laughed at just how wacky and all over the place the blog post from February ...
The Magpie Mason

‘Grande Oriente d’Italia prevails in court’ - The Grand Orient of Italy has won its court case against the government of that nation—for now—according to a ruling handed down last Thursday by the E...
Massachusetts and More Genealogy Blog

James Cudworth 1612-1681, of England and Scituate & Barnstable, Massachusetts - James Cudworth was baptized Aller, Somersetshire, England, 2 August 1612 [St. Andrew’s Church register], the son of Ralph and Mary (Machell) Cudworth. He...
Civil War Notebook

Documents, Letters & Speeches: July 1 - December 31, 1862 - *The Founding Documents | Ordinances of Secession* *The Antebellum Period* *1860 | 1861* *January 1 – June 30, 1862July 1 – December 31, 1862* *January 1 ...
Yesterday’s Papers

Dreams of Sugar-Plums Danced In Their Heads -- In Fact, They Were Animated! - CHRISTMAS CARDS OF ANIMATORS AND THEIR STUDIOSby Rick MarschallIn the worlds of comic strips and other branches of cartooning, through the years the artist...
Thomas Gardner of Salem, MA

Nobel, Chemistry, 1901 - TL;DR -- Significant to us were the Prizes for Physics, Chemistry and Medicine. In this post, we point to the 1901 award. As such, that is a good start w...
Sandwalk

BREAKING NEWS: Intelligent Design Creationists claim that this year's Nobel Prize refutes junk DNA and confirms IDC predictions! - This is a *Come Let Us Reason Together* (sic) podcast with Faxale Rana and Casey Luskin. They discuss this year's Nobel Prize for the discovery of microR...
Nutfield Genealogy

The Matadero in Madrid, Spain for Weathervane Wednesday - This weathervane was photographed at the Matadero in Madrid, Spain. It is located at the Plaza de Chopera in the Arganzuela neighborhood. The weatherva...
Bookman's Log

Concerning the Value of Worthless Manuscripts - [image: Concerning the Value of Worthless Manuscripts] I’ve been nattering on for years about the commercial advantages of working with manuscript material...
My Tapley Tree...and its Branches

The only thing constant is change... and being "busy" all the time - My life has changed drastically since I last wrote a blog post over two years ago! I could not fathom that it had been two years. I knew it had been a...
In Times Past

Women in Medicine - Part One - Midwives Lydia Peters Baldwin and Bathsheba Rich Wallace served the area during the period after the Revolution. They delivered hundreds of local babies....
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...
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*.
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...
My Other Blog

Salmon Brook (Granby), Connecticut - Salmon Brook, which started out as no more than a small cluster of houses and a remote outposts of Simsbury, would later became part of the newly formed To...
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...
Quixotic Joust

The Presidents Bush: Walker Genealogy, Part VI - See previous segments of *The Presidents Bush*:* The Walker Genealogy* at this blog: Part I Part II Part II...
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...
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...
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...
Betty's Boneyard Genealogy Blog

2010-2020: Reflections on A Decade in Genealogy - This past year I have been much more involved in researching genealogy, rather than writing about it. But as the year comes to an end, I feel I must pu...
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...
Letters to My Grandparents

Edward Ebert Kelly died this day in 1987 - Dear Ed, I hardly knew you... of course I was curious about you... you are, after all, my husband's father. I had wanted to meet you before we were married....
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 ...
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 ~ 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...
Naval Heritage Society Dockyard

Anatomy of a PENGUIN - By now I know you’re all brimming with anticipation of tomorrow’s announcement – tomorrow being *PENGUIN DAY, the 200th anniversary of Hornet’s capture o...
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 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...
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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