Illustration: Governor John Endicott. Credit: Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum; Digital Commonwealth.

Persecuted Quakers in Colonial America, Part III

By Melissa Berry on May 17, 2021

Melissa Berry continues her story about the punishments Quakers endured at the hands of the 17th century Puritan authorities, focusing on Edward Wharton... (Read More)

Illustration: "Cassandra Southwick in court before the magistrates," from the Boston Globe, 23 October 1923.

Persecuted Quakers in Colonial America, Part II

By Melissa Berry on May 12, 2021

Melissa Berry continues her story about the ordeal of the Southwick family at the hands of 17th century Puritan authorities in the town of Salem, MA... (Read More)

Persecuted Quakers in Colonial America

By Melissa Berry on May 4, 2021

Melissa Berry writes about the punishments endured by the Southwick family at the hands of 17th century Puritan authorities in the town of Salem, MA... (Read More)

Photo: Frederick Fanning Ayer, from “Men of New York,” Volume 2, p. 41, George E. Mathews, New York, 1898. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

A Monument for Persecuted Quakers Upsets Salem, MA

By Melissa Berry on April 30, 2021

Melissa Davenport Berry writes about a controversial monument to the 17th century persecuted Quakers that the town of Salem, Massachusetts, rejected... (Read More)

Illustration: witchcraft trial at Salem Village. The central figure in this 1876 illustration of the courtroom is usually identified as Mary Walcott. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Witch Lore in Old Salem Village: Ruthie Stearns’ Family Connections

By Melissa Berry on October 29, 2020

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry writes more about the 1692 Salem Witch Trials, focusing this time on the family connections of Ruthie Stearns... (Read More)

Digging Up Witch Lore in Old Salem Village: The Rev. Samuel Parris Home

By Melissa Berry on October 28, 2020

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry writes about the archaeological dig exploring the Salem Witch Trials in present-day Danvers, Massachusetts... (Read More)

Researching Ancestors Who Were Committed to Asylums, Using Old Newspapers

By Gena Philibert-Ortega on May 6, 2013

Introduction: In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega writes about how difficult it can be finding information about an ancestor who was committed to an asylum (i.e., state hospital)—and how using old newspapers can help. Gena is a genealogist and author of the book “From the Family Kitchen.” When I look at the latter years of... (Read More)

Obituaries – Routinely Published in Government Reports & Documents

By Thomas Jay Kemp on August 18, 2009

Get the most out of GenealogyBank! The annual reports of the Department of the Interior are in GenealogyBank. They were published annually as part of the US Serial Set. I didn’t know that was in GenealogyBank! What the Commissioner of Education did was publish the obituaries of teachers and educators at all levels.... (Read More)

Old Man of the Mountain – RIP 3 May 2003

By Thomas Jay Kemp on May 4, 2009

It was six years ago that the Old Man of the Mountain fell. His passing is as deeply felt today as when I heard the shocking news in 2003. It came across as a cable news bulletin. Hikers had heard the awful rumble in the early hours while it was still dark and when... (Read More)

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