
It Happened on St. Valentine’s Day (part 2)
By Melissa Berry on February 6, 2025
Melissa Davenport Berry describes the 1895 Valentine’s Day Blizzard in Texas. Cattle froze, trains were stopped – but valentines got delivered! .. (Read More)
Melissa Davenport Berry describes the 1895 Valentine’s Day Blizzard in Texas. Cattle froze, trains were stopped – but valentines got delivered! .. (Read More)
In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry describes some events that happened on February 14, the date of St. Valentine’s Day... (Read More)
An article (with a title list) about the 689 Texas newspapers available in GenealogyBank’s online Historical Newspaper Archives... (Read More)
An article about Juneteenth, to celebrate the declaration by Union General Granger on 19 June 1865 in Galveston, Texas, that “all slaves are free.”.. (Read More)
Martha F. Fenstermaker (1943-2014) recently passed away, and in her published obituary it mentioned that she was “a direct descendant of Samuel Augustus Maverick, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence.” Her obituary also states she was a member of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. Her ancestor’s last name “Maverick” is... (Read More)
Introduction: Mary Harrell-Sesniak is a genealogist, author and editor with a strong technology background. In this blog post, Mary searches old newspapers to learn more about a special day coming up this Sunday: Mother-in-Law Day. They say that there is a holiday for everything—so it should come as no surprise that Mother-in-Law Day is... (Read More)
Introduction: Gena Philibert-Ortega is a genealogist and author of the book “From the Family Kitchen.” In this blog post, Gena reads old newspaper articles to learn about a strange episode from the past: a fatal train crash that was deliberately staged in Texas in 1896 as a publicity stunt. Our ancestors experienced some strange... (Read More)
Do you have old family traditions, places and/or heirlooms? Like Abe Lincoln, did your family live in a log cabin? Do you have a picture of it? If you are related to Robert Dalton of Palo Pinto County, Texas, then GenealogyBank’s newspaper collection has a photograph of their old log cabin (built in the... (Read More)
In this article, Mary Harrell-Sesniak shares some of the unusual and funny Texas town names she’s discovered in her research... (Read More)