There is an important genealogical source for New England researchers, one that often contains unique information that you will not find anywhere else. You won’t find this source on Ancestry.com, but is often freely available online. It is an official government record that can be quite valuable, if you know where to look for it, [...]
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 [...]
Decoration Day, the original name for Memorial Day, started in 1868, to remember those who fell in the Civil War, and to decorate their graves. Although I have many relatives and ancestors who proudly served in the armed forces, from the earliest colonial wars to Afghanistan and Iraq, as far as I can tell, I [...]
