In this article, Mary Harrell-Sesniak searches old newspapers to learn about the amazing life and accomplishments of the great inventor Thomas Edison... (Read More)
In this article, Duncan Kuehn searches old newspapers to learn about Thomas Edison and his invention of the electric light bulb that changed the world... (Read More)
Introduction: Mary Harrell-Sesniak is a genealogist, author and editor with a strong technology background. In this guest blog post, Mary uses old newspapers to research the invention of the steamboat—and describes how much steamboats changed our ancestors’ world. The invention of the steamboat radically changed our ancestors’ world. While researching your ancestors’ lives in... (Read More)
Gena Philibert-Ortega shows how, more than a century ago, Lydia Estes Pinkham used marketing techniques to promote her medicinal “vegetable compound.”.. (Read More)