Plymouth, England, and Plymouth, Massachusetts, are already beginning celebrations (which will culminate in 2020) for the 400th anniversary of the voyage of the Mayflower, with special events on both sides of the Atlantic. “As one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled has shown unto many” –Plymouth Colony Governor William... (Read More)
I love pumpkin pie. Every autumn, newspapers carry recipes for making this old seasonal dessert favorite. It turns out that pumpkin pie is as American as apple pie – even more so! According to this old news article: The truth is that apple pie may well be the nation’s best-selling dessert pie, but its... (Read More)
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega searches old newspapers to find some of our ancestors’ Thanksgiving dishes, and shares those old-fashioned recipes... (Read More)
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega searches old newspapers to learn about the Thanksgiving dinners our ancestors had during World War I... (Read More)
Today’s Wall Street Journal (21 November 2012) has an op-ed editorial by Melanie Kirkpatrick: Thanksgiving, 1789 about the nation’s first Thanksgiving proclamation. It was also President Washington’s first proclamation—he had been sworn in as the nation’s first president just a few months earlier, on 30 April 1789. Washington’s proclamation making Thanksgiving an officially recognized... (Read More)
For Thanksgiving, Scott Phillips searches on “Tom Turkey” and examines some of the more than 12,000 historical newspaper articles his search returned... (Read More)
With Thanksgiving just six days away, I thought I would search for any articles in GenealogyBank’s archives that mentioned Dr. Samuel Fuller—who was one of my Mayflower ancestors. I searched putting the terms “Mayflower Samuel Fuller” in the “Include Keywords” search box. Bang—GenealogyBank returned over 1,800 records. That’s great; I can spend a long... (Read More)
Now that it is November, the holidays will be here before you know it. You want to prepare now. That’s what Rose Briggs did. Her hard work set the tone for how Thanksgiving has been celebrated since 1921. Rose’s Thanksgiving preparation is just one of the many great stories in GenealogyBank’s online newspaper archives.... (Read More)
Researching Genealogy with Military Records and Lists in Newspapers From the Revolutionary War to Pearl Harbor to Iraq, newspapers are a valuable resource for researching your military ancestry and learning about the history of war in the United States. Newspapers have been a dependable source of information that Americans have relied upon throughout... (Read More)
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