Photo: a classroom at the De La Salle University in Manila, Philippines. Credit: Malate269; Wikimedia Commons.

Genealogy 101: Family History Research at the Library

By Gena Philibert-Ortega on May 7, 2018

In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega gives tips for doing family history research at the library... (Read More)

Star Wars ad, Daily Northwestern newspaper advertisement 13 May 1977

May the 4th Be with You!

By Thomas Jay Kemp on May 4, 2018

An article by Thomas Jay Kemp celebrating “May the 4th Be with You!” in honor of May 4 being Star Wars Day... (Read More)

A photo from an article about the Kent State Shootings, Advocate newspaper article 5 May 1970

Kent State Student Protesters Shot by National Guard

By Tony Pettinato on May 4, 2018

An article about the Kent State Shootings, when the Ohio National Guard shot 13 unarmed students on the university’s campus on 4 May 1970, killing 4... (Read More)

Why Genealogists Might Want to Eliminate Abbreviations and Acronyms!

By Mary Harrell-Sesniak on May 3, 2018

In this article, Mary Harrell-Sesniak writes about how abbreviations and acronyms change meaning over time – with implications for genealogists... (Read More)

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

Morgan Brewster Was a Fifer in the Revolutionary War

By Thomas Jay Kemp on May 2, 2018

An article by Thomas Jay Kemp about Morgan Brewster, an American fifer in the Revolutionary War, who died at age 93 in 1856... (Read More)

Genealogy 101: Using Social Media for Family History Research

By Gena Philibert-Ortega on May 1, 2018

In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega writes about various social media websites and tools – and how to use them to help your family history research... (Read More)

Photo: Hathorn Hall at Bates College, located in central Lewiston, Maine. Credit: Odwallah; Wikimedia Commons.

Genealogy Test: Are We All Related?

By Thomas Jay Kemp on April 30, 2018

An article by Thomas Jay Kemp checking his theory that pretty much all early, northern New Englanders are related, using Lewiston, Maine, as a test... (Read More)

Illustration: “Burning of the Henry Clay near Yonkers” by Nathaniel Currier, 1852. Source: Springfield Museum, Springfield, Massachusetts.

Genealogy Discovery: Disaster Takes Lives of Mother, Daughter

By Thomas Jay Kemp on April 26, 2018

An article by Thomas Jay Kemp about searching old newspapers to learn why his cousin Jacob Bailey’s wife and daughter had died on the same day in 1852... (Read More)

Illustration: “The Microscope” by Robert Walter Weir, 1849. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Newspaper Clue Leads to Old Family Painting

By Thomas Jay Kemp on April 25, 2018

An article by Thomas Jay Kemp about an 1849 painting by Robert Walter Weir that was found in Whitman Bailey’s attic in 1942... (Read More)