For Independence Day: Spirit of ’76 (part 1)
By Melissa Berry on June 26, 2024
To help celebrate Independence Day on July 4, Melissa Davenport Berry profiles Revolutionary War heroes and their descendants, and provides genealogy... (Read More)
Category: Genealogy Stories
Photo Album: Coffin-Standish-Nickerson and Allied Families
By Melissa Berry on June 21, 2024
In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry shows photos from an old Nantucket photo album and provides genealogy... (Read More)
Three Aged, Eccentric Brothers Have a Reunion
By Melissa Berry on June 18, 2024
In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry writes about the 1906 reunion of the three Brackett brothers, whose combined age was 248... (Read More)
17th Century Quaker Women Gone Wild (part 5)
By Melissa Berry on June 14, 2024
Melissa Davenport Berry writes about another Quaker woman who defied Puritan officials in Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1600s: Margaret Brewster... (Read More)
Photo Album of California Pioneers (part 2)
By Melissa Berry on June 11, 2024
In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry showcases more pictures from a photo album of California pioneers, featuring the Osborn and Moore family lines... (Read More)
Jones Family Photo Album: ‘Mayflower’ and Nantucket Roots
By Melissa Berry on June 5, 2024
In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry provides photos and genealogy from the Jones family photo album of Nantucket... (Read More)
Photo Album of California Pioneers (part 1)
By Melissa Berry on May 31, 2024
In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry showcases a photo album of California pioneers, featuring the Osborn and Moore family lines... (Read More)
17th Century Quaker Women Gone Wild (part 4)
By Melissa Berry on May 29, 2024
Melissa Berry writes more about a brave Quaker woman who defied Puritan officials in Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1600s: Deborah (nee Buffum) Wilson... (Read More)
Scions of Nantucket Founders (part 7 – second section)
By Melissa Berry on May 17, 2024
Melissa Berry continues her series about the founders of Nantucket and their descendants, showing more photos of the island’s annual “Main Street Fete.”.. (Read More)
