This month is the 250th birthday of John Quincy Adams, as Danielle Cournoyer reminds us on the Vita Brevis blog. This reminds me of my own little JQA story, from a few years ago, a timely illustration of some of the “gotchas” you can face when using transcriptions. I was researching a line in my [...]
The famed Boston Tea Party was December 16th, 1773. This protest sparked debates throughout New England as towns decided whether, and how, to react. It is worth checking the records of your town, in old town meeting records, in town books, etc., to see if and how the Tea Party was discussed. FamilySearch has [...]
As genealogists in New England we are all familiar with the story of Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay, the pilgrim separatists and the puritans, of Governors Bradford and Winthrop, of the Great Migration, and of the vast chronicle from the Mayflower to Bunker Hill and beyond. But what about New Hampshire? I think sometimes many consider [...]