Bird’s-Eye View Using Panoramic Maps
One of the overlooked collections held at the U. S. Library of Congress with their American Memory section are hundreds of panoramic maps of towns and cities across the United States and four Canadian...
View ArticleNew Collection Donated of Civil War Images
Having something well over 150 years old scanned so it can be shared with the world is a wonderful achievement. In 2010, Tom Liljenquist, a collector of Civil War photos had purchased a large private...
View ArticleNames at Alcatraz
Alcatraz is well-known, not as a resort, but rather the most famous national prison in America. Long considered an inescapable prison, it actually did have fourteen attempted escapes involving some 36...
View ArticleList of Civil War Union Graves
With April 2014, this marks 149 years since the end in 1865 of the American Civil War. Everyone in searching their family tree want to know if they had soldier ancestors who fought in the Civil War....
View ArticlePopular Culture Advertisement
Nothing decades ago or today more defines what people enjoyed eating, wearing or doing than the advertisements of those times. It is almost like a time capsule of the life and times of our relatives....
View ArticleWomen of the 1850s and ’60s
‘An Era When Women Could Not Vote, Hold Bank Accounts Or Take A Direct Role In Business‘ Fashions mark the decades and era throughout history. Hard work and dressing the correct socially accepted way...
View Article‘Dog My Cats’& other Phrases
Every language and culture develops its own unique terms and phrases. Some such sayings are only used for a period of time, say in the late half of the 19th century, or during the ‘Roaring Twenties’....
View ArticleThe Sinister Side
Sometimes people are worried they may find a ‘black sheep’, ‘a skeleton in the closet’ or some other shocking or upsetting information about an ancestor. This is sometimes referred to as finding the...
View Article1941-1945 Yearbooks
From the National World War II Museum, they have a site online titled “See You Next Year.” It refers to the school yearbooks produced across the United States during the war years of the early 1940s....
View ArticleNew Season – Genealogy Roadshow
Yes, PBS has the New Season of the American Genealogy Roadshow beginning on Tuesday January 13, 2015 at 8:00 pm EST and runs through Tuesday February 24, 2015. This season visits three important...
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