In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega gives tips for finding all kinds of mentions of your female ancestor in historical newspapers before 1850... (Read More)
Melissa Davenport Berry describes how Puritan laws in the Massachusetts Bay Colony tried to control women’s clothing, hair styles and headdresses... (Read More)
Gena Philibert-Ortega gives tips, while you’re home during quarantine, for planning your next research trip to an archive once the pandemic lessens... (Read More)
In this article, Mary Harrell-Sesniak searches old newspapers to find some of our ancestors’ comments about traveling... (Read More)
Melissa Berry writes more about the warning that “the British were coming” that the history books forgot – not Paul Revere’s ride, but Ebenezer Todd’s... (Read More)
In this article – to help celebrate the Fourth of July – Jane Hampton Cook writes about the figure of Columbia, long used as a symbol for America... (Read More)
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega searches old newspapers to find recipes our ancestors cooked to celebrate the Fourth of July... (Read More)
Melissa Berry writes about the ride warning that the British were coming that the history books forgot – not Paul Revere’s ride, but Ebenezer Todd’s... (Read More)
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega gives tips for using name variations and nicknames for better results searching your ancestor’s name... (Read More)
