Mary Harrell-Sesniak finds letters children wrote during the 1918 Flu Pandemic to, hopefully, bring a smile to our readers in this tough time... (Read More)
In this article, Mary Harrell-Sesniak searches old newspapers to find letters that children wrote to the editor, filled with family history information... (Read More)
Introduction: Gena Philibert-Ortega is a genealogist and author of the book “From the Family Kitchen.” In this guest blog post, Gena searches old newspapers to show how much good family history information can be found in our ancestors’ letters published in newspapers. Newspapers have a long history of publishing letters. Many of us are... (Read More)
The War of 1812 had been over for more than a year, and Catharine Logan had heard nothing from her husband or son since they marched off to fight the British in the summer of 1812. For four years she’d been waiting and hoping for news about her missing family…so she wrote a letter... (Read More)
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