In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega shows how much important family history information is contained in World War I draft registration records... (Read More)
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega describes the World War I reporting by pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly... (Read More)
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega searches old newspapers to learn about the Zimmermann Telegram, an incident that pushed the U.S. into World War I... (Read More)
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega searches old newspapers to learn what Christmas dinner our soldiers were served during WWI and WWII... (Read More)
An article about Osmond Ingram of Oneonta, Alabama, who was the first U.S. Navy sailor killed in World War I... (Read More)
In this blog article, Gena Philibert-Ortega searches old newspapers to find some stirring accounts of heroism during the sinking of the passenger ship Lusitania in 1915... (Read More)
Introduction: Gena Philibert-Ortega is a genealogist and author of the book “From the Family Kitchen.” In this blog article, Gena searches old newspapers to uncover the story of Hazel Carter, who disguised herself as a man in order to follow her husband into battle in WWI – and almost made it. During the American... (Read More)
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega writes about the tragic sinking of the passenger ship Lusitania in 1915 by a German submarine... (Read More)
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega tells a remarkable story: how the peace of Christmas temporarily stopped the fighting during WWI in 1914... (Read More)
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