Illustration: a close-up of “Clipper Ship Captain” (Capt. Ryder) by Charles Webster Hawthorne. Credit: Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia.

Scrapbook Photos of Provincetown, Massachusetts (part 3)

By Melissa Berry on April 18, 2024

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry writes about a Provincetown sea captain, Richard Ryder, who had a long and adventurous career... (Read More)

“Provincetown Pier & Gulls, Massachusetts” by Carl Van Vechten, 1936. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Scrapbook Photos of Provincetown, Massachusetts (part 2)

By Melissa Berry on April 3, 2024

Melissa Davenport Berry shares photos and newspaper clippings about the Lost Pilgrims Memorial being unveiled in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in 1920... (Read More)

Photo: beachfront art class, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1940. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Scrapbook Photos of Provincetown, Massachusetts (part 1)

By Melissa Berry on April 2, 2024

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry shares photos and newspaper clippings about Provincetown, Massachusetts, from 100 years ago... (Read More)

Thank you GenealogyBank!

By Thomas Jay Kemp on August 5, 2008

We get letters all the time from ecstatic genealogists who broke through their brick walls in GenealogyBank. Grateful letters that say – “Wow – I finally found him” in GenealogyBank … thank you, thank you. Tonight I received a “Wow – I finally found him” note from Jane Giavelli Lauhon. She wrote: Thank you... (Read More)

Wild Bill Obama

By Thomas Jay Kemp on July 31, 2008

May 27th was Wild Bill Hickok’s day – I wrote about how easy it is to find newspaper articles about him in GenealogyBank. Wild Bill Hickok is in the news again – when Barack Obama mentioned his family tradition that he was a distant cousin to Wild Bill – James Butler Hickok (1837-1876). ... (Read More)

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