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Daytonian in Manhattan

The 1888 Fairchild Publishing Bldg - 10 East 13th Street - *photograph by the author* Although the millionaires of lower Fifth Avenue had already begun moving northward by 1887, the news that John Glass intende...
Cause of Liberty

How Do We Protect Family and Church from the Currently Growing Culture? - The liberty principle for this Freedom Friday concerns how to protect family and church from the negative influences in our culture. In his article “When...
The Magpie Mason

‘At last: The Book M’ - The Masonic Book Club has done it again—or at least it will later this year.The 2026 volume, announced by the MBC and Arturo de Hoyos yesterday, will b...
Christopher Setterlund, In My Footsteps

In My Footsteps Podcast Mixtape #4: Weirdest New England Laws of All-Time(7-1-2026) - Donate to the GoFundMe for my feature-length film, The Cabin! Happy Fourth of July Weekend! In addition to cookouts, beach days, fireworks, and famil...
My Tapley Tree...and its Branches

Tombstone Tuesday - *Gregory Thompson "Greg" Clark* 18 Jul 1963 - 11 May 2020 buried at Clark-Joiner Cemetery Dexter, Laurens County, Georgia, USA
Thomas Gardner of Salem, MA

LinkedIn - its use - TL;DR -- We have pushed posts from this blog to LinkedIn. We have referenced LinkedIn posts from here. That will be regularly done with link both ways. T...
Life From The Roots

Lowell, Massachusetts Post #8 Downtown (about 70 photos) - *Note: these photos are all large because somebody requested I share them this way. In addition, any of my Lowell pictures are available for you to copy...
Massachusetts and More Genealogy Blog

John Damon, born ca 1621 England, died before 3 October 1676 at Scituate, Massachusetts, and his Wives Katherine Merritt and Martha Howland - John Damon was born about 1621, likely in Kent, England, the son of John Damon and Hannah Gilson. His birth is often seen as 11 November 1621 [Damon], bu...
Nutfield Genealogy

My Revolutionary War Ancestors - Amos Burnham of Ipswich, Massachusetts - 1832 map of Ipswich, Massachusetts This is the 11th Revolutionary War ancestor I have written about in this series. My 5th great grandfather Amos Burn...
Civil War Notebook

Diary of Adam Gurowski, December 1861 - MCCLELLAN is now all-powerful, and refuses to divide the army into corps. Thus much for his brains and for his consistency. The message — a disquisition ...
Bookman's Log

So Long, Farewell, Aufwiedersehn, Goodnight ! - [image: So Long, Farewell, Aufwiedersehn, Goodnight !] Last Call at Donohue’s in New York, ‘a Museum of What Bars Used to Be’ After 76 years as a Midtown f...
Sandwalk

Do scientists at Amgen understand the human genome? - Amgen Inc. is a major pharmaceutical company based in Thousand Oaks, California (USA). [Wikipedia: Amgen] It was founded in 1980 to exploit developments ...
In Times Past

It's Graduation Time - Journal Opinion, June 6, 2026 The news is filled with local high school graduation activities. While ceremonies remain mostly traditional, there hav...
Old Blue Genes

William Morril of Moultonborough - Graves/Morrill Gravestone Bean Cemetery Moultonborough, NH William & Betsey Morrill Gravemarker William Morrill was born in Berwick, Maine 1765, son to W...
Quixotic Joust

The Connected Life of Seth Ward - From a footnote in *Gangster Planet*: Terry Reed’s book,* Compromised*, exposes what was happening in Arkansas at the time through the eyes of the author...
Betty's Boneyard Genealogy Blog

My Ancestors in the American Revolutionary War: A Summary--and one American Loyalist - So here's what I have learned: --There are 21 ancestors in my family tree who saw battle during the American Revolution, plus four who were active in ...
Ancestry Island

Brick Walls: Now and Forever? (Maybe not) - Every genealogist has them; those ancestors whose lives are not an open book, whose records (and sometimes even names) we haven't found anywhere we've look...
AT THE RIVERBEND

Jacob Newcomer - A Horrible Disease - Jacob Newcomer at age 67, Monroe, Michigan. Photo taken Oct. 16, 1899. I came across the death certificate for my great-great grand...
Yesterday’s Papers

RUDOLPH DIRKS, HANS, FRITZ, AND FATHER TIME - Happy New Year...andOld Years Too!ARS LONGA, VITA BREVIS ~~ Art is long; life is short.2025 has been a momentous year -- a cliche that doubtless is true f...
AnceStories: The Stories of My Ancestors

Flashback Friday: He Jingled When He Walked - *My dad, Bryan Henry Robbins, passed away on November 2, 2019. My mother, under his care for nearly 20 years at that time, came to live with me for a ...
My Other Blog

Francis O'Neil and the O'Neil Family - Part 2 - The O'Neil Family, the Next Generations If you missed Part 1 of the story, go here . . . Francis O'Neil and Elizabeth Nevin came to America from Scotland...
Quilt Crossing

Tiny Town Nativity - I finished a second Tiny Town by Heart in Hand Needleart. This one is called Tiny Town Nativity. As usual, I had to "go rogue" and make a few changes to ...
Letters to My Grandparents

Amos Dye Outcast? - Dear Grandfather Dye, Started this last year, and though I love the idea of writing about an ancestor each week, I've given up. Still, I thought this was an...
Erica's Adventures in Genealogy

Upcoming Talks by Erica - I'll be giving two genealogy talks for the MSOG, Massachusestts Society of Genealogy, Middlesex Chapter on the 8th of February and the 8th of March. Here i...
Naval Heritage Society Dockyard

TIMBER!!! - Building boats takes a lot of lumber. And very specific types - the wrong selection will lead to problems later on. The problem for any boat builder is...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 Ta...
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 m...
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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