A photo from an article about the Kent State Shootings, Advocate newspaper article 5 May 1970

Kent State Student Protesters Shot by National Guard

By Tony Pettinato on May 4, 2018

An article about the Kent State Shootings, when the Ohio National Guard shot 13 unarmed students on the university’s campus on 4 May 1970, killing 4... (Read More)

Painting: "Washington Crossing the Delaware," by Emanuel Leutze. Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Wikimedia Commons.

Morgan Brewster Was a Fifer in the Revolutionary War

By Thomas Jay Kemp on May 2, 2018

An article by Thomas Jay Kemp about Morgan Brewster, an American fifer in the Revolutionary War, who died at age 93 in 1856... (Read More)

Photo: Hathorn Hall at Bates College, located in central Lewiston, Maine. Credit: Odwallah; Wikimedia Commons.

Genealogy Test: Are We All Related?

By Thomas Jay Kemp on April 30, 2018

An article by Thomas Jay Kemp checking his theory that pretty much all early, northern New Englanders are related, using Lewiston, Maine, as a test... (Read More)

Photo: Seattle, Washington. Credit: Daniel Schwen; Wikimedia Commons.

Washington Archives: 109 Newspapers for Genealogy Research

By Tony Pettinato on April 27, 2018

An article (with a complete title list) about the 109 Washington newspapers available in GenealogyBank’s online Historical Newspaper Archives... (Read More)

Illustration: “Burning of the Henry Clay near Yonkers” by Nathaniel Currier, 1852. Source: Springfield Museum, Springfield, Massachusetts.

Genealogy Discovery: Disaster Takes Lives of Mother, Daughter

By Thomas Jay Kemp on April 26, 2018

An article by Thomas Jay Kemp about searching old newspapers to learn why his cousin Jacob Bailey’s wife and daughter had died on the same day in 1852... (Read More)

Illustration: “The Microscope” by Robert Walter Weir, 1849. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Newspaper Clue Leads to Old Family Painting

By Thomas Jay Kemp on April 25, 2018

An article by Thomas Jay Kemp about an 1849 painting by Robert Walter Weir that was found in Whitman Bailey’s attic in 1942... (Read More)

Photo: the Hubble Space Telescope as seen from the departing space shuttle Atlantis, flying STS-125, HST Servicing Mission 4, 19 May 2009. Credit: Ruffnax; National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Wikimedia Commons.

On This Day, a Scientific Marvel: Hubble Space Telescope Was Launched

By Tony Pettinato on April 24, 2018

After seven long years of frustrating delays, the Hubble Space Telescope was finally launched into space on 24 April 1990 by the space shuttle Discovery... (Read More)

Illustration: “The Cove Mills,” by Lyell Edwin Carr (1854-1912). Source: Facebook.

I Use GenealogyBank for More than Genealogy!

By Thomas Jay Kemp on April 20, 2018

An article by Thomas Jay Kemp about searching old newspapers to learn more about a painting of his hometown of Stamford, Conn., by Lyell Edwin Carr... (Read More)

Photo: Great Smoky Mountains of Sevier County, Tennessee. Credit: Aviator31; Wikimedia Commons.

Tennessee Archives: 120 Newspapers for Genealogy Research

By Tony Pettinato on April 19, 2018

An article (with a complete title list) about the 120 Tennessee newspapers available in GenealogyBank’s online Historical Newspaper Archives... (Read More)

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