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All of us have them. Brick walls. Genealogical mysteries that we are unable to solve……yet. In my case I’ve written blog posts about my
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Thomas Piketty argues that the time has come to support an inclusive and expansive conception of socialism as a counterweight against the
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We all know that obituaries can be a great source of information about our ancestors. This week I’ve been working on my GILLEN line and have
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Cornelia B. R. Hall is my husband’s paternal great grandaunt. She is the daughter of Rev. George Hall and his first wife Almira ROSETTE. You
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This was a small news article I located back in 2018. While it isn’t dramatic and barely newsworthy, it was printed in the paper.Here is the
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Despite all its imperfections, peer review is one marker of scientific quality – it indicates that an article has been evaluated prior to
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Carl E. Lindhorst was the son of Edwin Lindhorst (1912-1996) & Helen Marian Hunter (1917-1994). Carl is my maternal 2nd cousin once removed.
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It’s a BIG day in this country, every four years. We have the privilege of electing who will be our President for the next four years. In
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Ireland native John O'Keeffe, born about 1808, had been a resident of Macon, Bibb County, Georgia "for many years" when he was killed on 11
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President Thomas Woodrow Wilson won reelection in 1916 pledging to keep America out of World War I, which had been raging since 1914. However,
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Today I’d like to share a newspaper article I located for my maternal 4th great grandaunt, Susannah Bowen. Susannah is the daughter of my 5th
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Today I was looking more closely at Isaac Doten Hart, the oldest child of my 3rd great grandparents, Henry Hart and Olive Doten. It’s through
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Introduction: In this article – to help celebrate tomorrow’s Fourth of July festivities – Gena Philibert-Ortega reminisces about the U.S.
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By the spring of 1917, World War I had been raging for nearly three years. In the trenches of Europe and on battlegrounds in Africa and the Middle
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I learned something new today: Jack is a nickname of John. (I'm not going to try and explain how it came to be as the theory is a bit convoluted, but