July 3, 2020 Do you have ancestors in Colorado, Utah or Wyoming? If you do, you’re lucky because all three of those states have great newspaper projects. I’ve written about what wonderful genealogy gems can be found in the pages of old newspapers before, but I want to emphasize state historic newspaper projects today. After …
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Is it my Story to Tell?
June 26, 2020 In the course of doing research, most genealogists eventually run across sensitive information. Many times it concerns secrets that our ancestors went to their graves hiding because of the shame they felt about an event such as a first baby born only five months after a wedding. In other cases, such as …
Aged Veterans and Younger Wives
June 19, 2020 Last week I wrote about veterans from America’s earlier wars who still had surviving children decades after the wars ended. Irene Triplett, whose story I mentioned in my last blog, was the daughter of a Civil War veteran; she just died this month in spite of the fact that her father’s service …