Photo: the Kentucky State Capitol building in Frankfort, Kentucky. Credit: Mobilus In Mobili; Wikimedia Commons.

Kentucky Archives: 224 Newspapers for Genealogy Research

By Tony Pettinato on July 28, 2021

An article (with a complete title list) about the 224 Kentucky newspapers available in GenealogyBank’s online Historical Newspaper Archives... (Read More)

Photo: grave marker at Chico Cemetery, near Avondale in Pueblo County, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Genealogy Tip: Finding Children Who Died Young, Part II

By Katie Rebecca Garner on July 27, 2021

In this article, Katie Garner concludes her two-part series giving tips how to find information about children in your family’s history who died young... (Read More)

Genealogy Tip: Finding Children Who Died Young, Part I

By Katie Rebecca Garner on July 26, 2021

In this article, Katie Garner begins a two-part series giving tips how to find information about children in your family’s history who died young... (Read More)

Photo: WWI grave marker. Credit: Gena Philibert-Ortega.

Genealogy Tip: What a Gravestone Tells Us – Grave Markers

By Gena Philibert-Ortega on July 23, 2021

In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega writes about the family history information and clues grave markers provide... (Read More)

Photo: the tomb of Francis Wainwright, Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Massachusetts. Credit: Leslie (Burke) Fernandes and “The Guardian.”

Salem Uproar over Dilapidated Tombs, Part V

By Melissa Berry on July 22, 2021

Melissa Berry writes more about a controversy in Salem, Massachusetts, over Quaker tombs in 1835, focusing on the Turner, Berry and Wainwright families... (Read More)

Photo: Kansas summer wheat and storm. Credit: James Watkins; Wikimedia Commons.

Kansas Archives: 308 Newspapers for Genealogy Research

By Tony Pettinato on July 21, 2021

An article (with a complete title list) about the 308 Kansas newspapers available in GenealogyBank’s online Historical Newspaper Archives... (Read More)

Photo: Burying Point Cemetery from Charter Street, Salem, Massachusetts. Courtesy of Peabody Essex Museum, Phillips Library, from the collection of Frank Cousins.

Salem Uproar over Dilapidated Tombs, Part IV

By Melissa Berry on July 20, 2021

Melissa Davenport Berry continues her story about a controversy in Salem, Massachusetts, over some Quaker tombs in 1835, and Dr. Nathaniel Bowditch... (Read More)

Photo: text of the small ad that attracted a wide and diverse meeting of women and men at the first Women's Rights Convention, held in Seneca Falls, New York, during July 1848. Credit: Marc Nozell; Wikimedia Commons.

On This Day: Women’s Rights & the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention

By Tony Pettinato on July 19, 2021

An article about the Seneca Falls Convention for women’s rights on 19 July 1848 that made suffrage a key goal of the women’s rights movement... (Read More)

Photo: Leopold's Ice Cream Shop, Savannah, Georgia. Credit: Carol M. Highsmith; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Ice Cream: Like Us, Our Ancestors Loved It

By Gena Philibert-Ortega on July 16, 2021

In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega searches old newspapers to find stories and recipes about ice cream that our ancestors enjoyed... (Read More)