Photo: 5th Grade Class at the Batchelder Street School in Laconia, New Hampshire, May 1908

Can You See Him in This Old Photograph?

By Thomas Jay Kemp on August 22, 2019

In this article, Thomas Jay Kemp writes about his grandfather, Walter D. Huse, with a 1908 photograph of him in 5th grade in Laconia, New Hampshire... (Read More)

Photo: tombstone for Clara Curtis, Newaygo Cemetery, Newaygo, Michigan. Credit: Avalon Elizabeth Boullt; FamilySearch.

Have You Seen the Back of My Tombstone?

By Thomas Jay Kemp on August 19, 2019

An article by Thomas Jay Kemp about the back of the “odd and unusual tombstone” belonging to Clara Curtis in Newaygo Cemetery, Newaygo, Michigan.. (Read More)

Painting: "Washington Crossing the Delaware," by Emanuel Leutze. Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Wikimedia Commons.

Revolutionary War Soldiers: So Cold They Shot Squirrels for Shoes

By Thomas Jay Kemp on August 15, 2019

In this article, Thomas Jay Kemp learns about his cousin John Ludwig Snyder’s service in the Revolutionary War by finding his obituary... (Read More)

Photo: Martha Moore Avery, from Boston Partridge’s article “America's Troublemakers” published in Pearson’s Magazine (July 1908), page 22

Wait, She Was Famous?

By Thomas Jay Kemp on August 8, 2019

In this article, Thomas Jay Kemp searches GenealogyBank’s newspapers to learn more about his relative Martha Moore Avery (1851-1929)... (Read More)

Photo: Occupational group portrait of four shoemakers, one full-length, standing, other three seated, holding shoes and shoe making equipment, c. 1840-1860. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Need Shoes? Give Daniel Davis a Call

By Thomas Jay Kemp on August 6, 2019

In this article, Thomas Jay Kemp searches GenealogyBank to learn more about his cousin Daniel Davis (1814-1902), a shoemaker... (Read More)

Photo: the Stamford High School basketball team, 1964

Learning about the Team: One Player at a Time

By Thomas Jay Kemp on May 13, 2019

In this article, Thomas Jay Kemp searches old newspapers to learn more about members of the Stamford High School basketball team his father used to coach... (Read More)

Can I Date This Photo Using Old Newspapers?

By Thomas Jay Kemp on April 29, 2019

In this article, Thomas Jay Kemp uses old newspaper articles to help date a photograph of his grandfather Walter D. Huse fishing at York Beach, Maine... (Read More)

Photo: Belknap County Courthouse, Laconia, New Hampshire, from a 1906 postcard. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

What about Great-Uncle Walter?

By Thomas Jay Kemp on April 10, 2019

In this article, Thomas Jay Kemp searches old newspapers and census records to find information about the Huse family on his family tree... (Read More)

Photo: a close-up of Ransom Smith’s diary, showing entries from October 1927

Genealogy Serendipity, Part II: Ancestor’s Diaries Returned to Family

By Thomas Jay Kemp on March 28, 2019

Thomas Jay Kemp writes about the kindness of a stranger who found and returned his cousin Ransom Ferdinand Smith’s diaries... (Read More)

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