Tag: Thanksgiving

You Want to Be Prepared as Thanksgiving Approaches

By Thomas Jay Kemp on November 2, 2012

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

By Thomas Jay Kemp on December 6, 2011

  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)