Earlier Pandemic Nearly Ends Hart Family Line
By Melissa Berry on May 20, 2020
Melissa Davenport Berry digs into old newspapers and family records to tell the story of the Hart family, nearly wiped out by the pandemic of 1915-1917... (Read More)
Tag: Influenza
Old Diseases & Early Medical Terms in Historical Newspapers
By Mary Harrell-Sesniak on April 30, 2013
Introduction: Mary Harrell-Sesniak is a genealogist, author and editor with a strong technology background. In this guest blog post, Mary provides another fun quiz to test your knowledge of terms used in old newspapers to describe our ancestors’ diseases and medical conditions—and then provides illustrated definitions of those terms. Here is the 18th century... (Read More)
