In this article, Mary Harrell-Sesniak searches old newspapers to show how illustrations of fashion trends in hats can help you date family photographs... (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)
Introduction: Gena Philibert-Ortega is a genealogist and author of the book “From the Family Kitchen.” In this guest blog post, Gena writes about the value of a resource in newspapers that is often overlooked by genealogists: the classified ads. “Be sure to drink your Ovaltine. Ovaltine? A crummy commercial.”—Ralphie Parker from the movie A... (Read More)
In this article, Thomas Jay Kemp describes how missing person ads in old newspapers can fill in details about the ancestors on your family tree... (Read More)
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