Ship Records for Genealogy: Newspapers & Passenger Lists
By Thomas Jay Kemp on November 26, 2014
An article about using passenger lists published in old newspapers to learn more about your ancestor's arrival in America... (Read More)
An article about using passenger lists published in old newspapers to learn more about your ancestor's arrival in America... (Read More)
In this blog article, Gena Philibert-Ortega discusses how to create a family cookbook to showcase all your favorite holiday recipes... (Read More)
In this article, Mary Harrell-Sesniak describes online resources to help with your Native American family history research... (Read More)
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega searches old newspapers to find some of our ancestors’ Thanksgiving dishes, and shares those old-fashioned recipes... (Read More)
Portraits of my Starbird ancestors hang on our wall on the landing at the top of the staircase. Over the years I have chained the family back from Martha Jane (Starbird) Richmond (1836-1905) to Robert Starbird (1782- ) to Moses Starbird (1743-1815) to John Starbird (1701-1753) to Thomas Starbird (1660-1723). All of them lived... (Read More)
An article about President Lincoln delivering the two-minute “Gettysburg Address” on 19 November 1863, one of the greatest speeches in American history... (Read More)
In this article, Mary Harrell-Sesniak presents a holiday gift idea: a project to create a recipe book of vintage dishes your ancestors might have prepared... (Read More)
An article about how Pilgrim John Howland almost didn't make it Plymouth after being swept overboard the Mayflower while crossing the Atlantic Ocean... (Read More)
I didn’t realize that the Mayflower had such a difficult time when the Pilgrims crossed the Atlantic in 1620. A long voyage—yes, I knew that. The ship got off course—yes, I knew that too. But multiple severe storms, including one that cracked and buckled the Mayflower’s main beam? No, I didn’t remember that part... (Read More)