How to Create a Family Cookbook to Save Holiday Recipes
By Gena Philibert-Ortega on November 25, 2014
In this blog article, Gena Philibert-Ortega discusses how to create a family cookbook to showcase all your favorite holiday recipes... (Read More)
Tag: Holidays
George Washington Proclaimed a Day of Thanksgiving 26 November 1789
By Thomas Jay Kemp on November 21, 2012
Today’s Wall Street Journal (21 November 2012) has an op-ed editorial by Melanie Kirkpatrick: Thanksgiving, 1789 about the nation’s first Thanksgiving proclamation. It was also President Washington’s first proclamation—he had been sworn in as the nation’s first president just a few months earlier, on 30 April 1789. Washington’s proclamation making Thanksgiving an officially recognized... (Read More)
1799 Newspaper Announcing Death of George Washington: Free Download!
By Thomas Jay Kemp on February 20, 2012
The old Colonial newspapers let us look back and see our country’s news as it happened. We get to see the early American history as it unfolded in our ancestors’ day. Imagine the utter shock in 1799 upon hearing the grim news that General George Washington was dead—America’s military leader during the Revolutionary War... (Read More)
The Story of Perkins Swain: A Genealogist’s Online Research Discoveries
By Thomas Jay Kemp on December 20, 2011
Online genealogy research is endlessly fascinating—you never know what you will find. I was doing some family history research in GenealogyBank’s newspaper archive when this double obituary caught my eye. Baltimore Patriot (Baltimore, Maryland), 25 July 1834, page 3. Just a short, simple notice, 4½ lines long—and yet what a sad story it tells.... (Read More)
California – Sutro Library Announces Closing Saturdays; Some Fridays
By Thomas Jay Kemp on July 10, 2009
Sutro Library announces Friday, Saturday closing schedule. The Sutro Library, the most extensive genealogy collection west of Salt Lake City and the San Francisco branch of the California State Library, announces changes in its days of operation. As of July 1, 2009, Saturday hours have been discontinued. In compliance with the Governor’s furlough order,... (Read More)
