Photos courtesy of the Greenbrier Hotel. It’s really hard for me to go on vacation without being tempted to do genealogy. I don’t mean my
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Boston Roots in the Keweenaw Peninsula
Upper Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula. Photo courtesy of novanumismatic.com I am incredibly fortunate that I have my dream job, working remotely as a Genealogical Researcher with
Booties from Chief BlackHawk
I recently read a New Yorker article about the complicated status of Black members of Native American nations, which stirred my memory and prompted me to research
James Dean: Of Winslows and Wishful Thinking
Few cinematic icons have endured in our collective consciousness as well as James Dean. Nearly seventy years after his death, his short and quixotic life
Governors of Massachusetts
Massachusetts made history with the recent victory of state Attorney General Maura Healey as our next governor, becoming both the first elected female governor in the
Dead Reckoning: How Genealogy Brings Memory Back to Life
Mt. Hope Cemetery in Lewiston, Maine. Photo via FindaGrave.com. The dead charge us with the duty to remember. I can trace my fascination with genealogy
That Woman
Wallis Simpson in 1936, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. The recent death of Queen Elizabeth brought many things to mind, including “That Woman”—the epithet chosen by
Meet the Ghosts who Haunt our History (Part I)
Mary Todd Lincoln with the ghost of her husband Abraham Lincoln behind her, circa 1872. Photo by William H Mumler. Thank you to everyone who
The True Story of Young Willie McBride
Have you ever wondered if a favorite song of yours had a basis in fact? In the song “The Green Fields of France,” the narrator
Family Ghosts: Bringing Back the Dead (Part II)
“Ghosts of St. Mark’s Place” by Eden, Janine and Jim (Wikimedia Commons). In case you missed Part I of our readers’ family ghost stories: last
