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Photo: family Bible and four journals belonging to Ransom Ferdinand Smith

Genealogy Serendipity: Ancestor’s Bible & Journals Returned to Family

By Thomas Jay Kemp on September 27, 2012

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

Photo of survivors of the sinking of the "Athenia," from the Plain Dealer newspaper (Cleveland, Ohio), 11 September 1939

Sinking of the ‘Athenia’: Mythical Family Survival Story Proves to Be Reality

By Scott Phillips on September 17, 2012

In this article, Scott Phillips tells how old newspaper articles confirmed his uncle’s incredible WWII survival story – a tale that Scott used to question. .. (Read More)

Photo: miners at work on the Mesabi Range in northeast Minnesota, 1903. Credit: Frances Benjamin Johnston; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Mining for My Italian-American Wife’s Minnesota Hometown History

By Scott Phillips on September 4, 2012

In this article, Scott Phillips tells about researching his ancestors’ lives and the history of the Mesabi Iron Range in Minnesota where they lived... (Read More)

Illustration: a policeman

A Murder in the Family Tree: Policeman Stabbed to Death

By Scott Phillips on August 7, 2012

In this article, Scott Phillips reports a sad discovery when doing his family history research – finding a murder in his family tree... (Read More)

Illustration: a grave

Family Digs Up Old Grave to Find Family Bible and Claim Fortune

By Thomas Jay Kemp on May 10, 2012

An article about the Phillips family in 1891 digging up a Family Bible that had been buried in the grave of a niece 25 years earlier to claim a fortune... (Read More)

Source: GenealogyBank, Huntsville Gazette (Huntsville, Alabama), 5 November 1881, page 4

Newspaper Genealogy Research Discoveries: 7 Brothers Meet at Last

By Thomas Jay Kemp on December 8, 2011

An article about the Jones family reunion in 1881 which was the first time all seven Jones brothers were together in one place at the same time... (Read More)

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