Photo: ox team hauling granite slab on Washington Street, annisquam, Massachusetts. Colonel Jonas French is standing second to the right. According to sources, Elizabeth Blood, widow of Joseph Blood, sold the quarry and lands to Col. French for the sum of $2,500. Credit: Annisquam Historical Society.

19th Century Stonecutters Featured in Old Scrapbook

By Melissa Berry on April 16, 2024

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry gives news clippings and photos from a scrapbook showing an earlier way of life... (Read More)

“Provincetown Pier & Gulls, Massachusetts” by Carl Van Vechten, 1936. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Scrapbook Photos of Provincetown, Massachusetts (part 2)

By Melissa Berry on April 3, 2024

Melissa Davenport Berry shares photos and newspaper clippings about the Lost Pilgrims Memorial being unveiled in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in 1920... (Read More)

Photo: beachfront art class, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1940. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Scrapbook Photos of Provincetown, Massachusetts (part 1)

By Melissa Berry on April 2, 2024

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry shares photos and newspaper clippings about Provincetown, Massachusetts, from 100 years ago... (Read More)

Illustration: flag of Nantucket, Massachusetts. Credit: NuclearVacuum; Wikimedia Commons.

Scions of Nantucket Founders (part 5)

By Melissa Berry on March 29, 2024

Melissa Berry continues her series about descendants of the founders of Nantucket, Massachusetts, focusing on a colorful character named Stephen Macy... (Read More)

Photo: eight of the children of John Washington Cram and his wife Polly: (standing, left to right): Dr. Elizabeth Sanborn Cram Fenno (wife of Stephen Fenno); George Washington Cram (husband of Sarah Holden); and Elvira Catherine Cram Stevens (wife of John Nelson Stevens); (seated, left to right): Polly Cram Maloon (wife of Greenleaf Maloon); Nancy Cram Lane (wife of William Lane); Amos Cram (husband of Jane Sanborn Prescott); Mary Jane Cram Parsons (wife of Joseph Parsons); and Dr. John Cram (husband of Sarah Abbott Lane). Credit: Kathy Williams Curtis.

Genealogy & Photos of the Quimby Family Line

By Melissa Berry on March 26, 2024

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry writes about the extended Quimby family line, featuring a famous inventor, and includes many family photos. .. (Read More)

Photo: Luitwieler family photos (front row): wooden brush engraved with J. G. Luitwieler & Sons, Rochester, New York, Established 1860; (2nd row, left to right): Mabel Eloise Luitwieler (1870-1922) daughter of Samuel Woods Luitwieler and Sophia Charlotte Maurer, Samuel Henry Luitwieler (1905-1981) son of George Chichester Luitwieler and Mary Estelle Dillingham, Adelaide Blossom Luitwieler (1882-1964) daughter of Samuel Woods Luitwieler and Sophia Charlotte Maurer; (back row, left to right): Samuel Woods Luitwieler (1847-1931), his wife Sophia Charlotte Maurer Luitwieler (1849-1826), Thomas Jefferson Trent (1910-1996) and his wife Willia Winzola Ginn (1917-2000). Credit: Denise Bartholome, great granddaughter of Samuel Woods Luitwieler.

Luitwieler Family Comes to America in 1836

By Melissa Berry on March 22, 2024

Melissa Davenport Berry writes about the Luitwieler family’s story in America starting in 1836, including the California Gold Rush and the Civil War... (Read More)

Illustration: shamrocks and stars. Illustration credit: https://depositphotos.com/home.html

Story My Father Told on St. Patrick’s Day

By Katie Rebecca Garner on March 13, 2024

In this article for St. Patrick’s Day this Sunday, Katie Rebecca Garner writes about her great-great-grandpa, Joseph McElhinney, an Irish immigrant... (Read More)

close-up of a portrait of Edward Rawson, by the Freake Painter, c. 1670. Credit: New England Historic Genealogical Society; Wikimedia Commons.

Puritan Edward Rawson’s Family Line: Strong Quaker Ties

By Melissa Berry on March 8, 2024

Melissa Davenport Berry writes about Edward Joy Rawson and Eliza Fitch Coffin Janney, and their connections to the Edward Rawson family line & Quakers... (Read More)

Scions of Nantucket Founders (part 4)

By Melissa Berry on March 6, 2024

Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series on the founders of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and their descendants, focusing on Folger & Wye family lines... (Read More)

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