Photo: plate of mince pies with decorated crusts and spicy fruit filling served sprinkled with sugar, one broken open to reveal the filling. Credit: christmasstockimages.com; Wikimedia Commons.

Thanksgiving Treat: Does Your Family Eat Mincemeat Pie?

By Gena Philibert-Ortega on November 21, 2022

In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega searches old newspapers to find various mincemeat recipes for holiday pies... (Read More)

Illustration: “Thanksgiving at Plymouth,” by Jennie A. Brownscombe, 1925. Credit: National Museum of Women in the Arts; Wikimedia Commons.

Mayflower Connections to Help Celebrate Thanksgiving, Part 2

By Melissa Berry on November 21, 2022

In this article – to help celebrate Thanksgiving – Melissa Davenport Berry writes about the Mayflower Pilgrims’ very first Thanksgiving... (Read More)

Photo: the first Thanksgiving reenactment at Plimoth Plantation, from "A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth; Mourt's Relation," by Dwight B. Heath. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Mayflower Connections to Help Celebrate Thanksgiving, Part 1

By Melissa Berry on November 18, 2022

To help celebrate Thanksgiving, Melissa Davenport Berry writes about a Mayflower descendant and Civil War veteran giving a Thanksgiving message in 1918... (Read More)

Photo: mashed potatoes. Credit: sousvideguy.com; Wikimedia Commons.

Thanksgiving Traditions: My Great-Great-Grandmother’s Mashed Potatoes

By Katie Rebecca Garner on November 17, 2022

In this article, Katie Rebecca Garner shares some lovely reminiscences about Thanksgiving and our family connections to food... (Read More)

Photo: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Maj. Gen. Edgar Hume posed for this photograph after the formal induction ceremony for Churchill into the Society of Cincinnati on 16 January 1952. Credit: The Society of the Cincinnati Archives.

Winston Churchill’s American Revolution Bloodlines

By Melissa Berry on November 15, 2022

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry writes about the American lineage of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill... (Read More)

Photo: Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery in Newport, Rhode Island. Credit: Matt H. Wade.; Wikimedia Commons.

Genealogy Tip: Death Certificates

By Katie Rebecca Garner on November 14, 2022

In this article, Katie Rebecca Garner gives tips for finding and using an important resource for genealogy: death certificates... (Read More)

Photo: U.S. World War I veteran Joseph Ambrose (1896–1988) attends the dedication parade for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1982, wearing his original Brodie helmet and doughboy uniform and holding the flag that covered the casket of his son, Clement, who was killed in the Korean War. Credit: National Archives and Records Administration; Wikimedia Commons.

Celebrating Veterans Day: The 1st ‘Armistice Day’

By Gena Philibert-Ortega on November 11, 2022

Gena Philibert-Ortega searches old newspapers to discover how our ancestors celebrated the first Armistice Day (now Veterans Day) on 11 November 1919... (Read More)

Photo: Jennie Jerome, "Lady Randolph Churchill," in her riding habit, by Elliott & Fry. Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London.

They Called Them ‘American Dollar Princesses,’ Part 2

By Melissa Berry on November 10, 2022

Melissa Davenport Berry continues her story about Lady Randolph Churchill, who was the mother of future British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill... (Read More)

Photo: Lady Randolph Churchill (nee Jennie Jerome) with her sons: the future Major John Strange Spencer-Churchill "Jack" (left); and future Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Sir Winston Spencer Churchill (right), in 1889. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

They Called Them ‘American Dollar Princesses,’ Part 1

By Melissa Berry on November 8, 2022

Melissa Davenport Berry writes about Lady Randolph Churchill, who was the American mother of future British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill... (Read More)