Monday, November 11, 2024

Witchcraft in Early New England, would she survive?

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                      Massachusetts Pond, by Walter Rock, https://www.freeimages.com/photospot-pond-1547645 Though Salem, Massachusetts, is ...
Thursday, August 29, 2024

A Family Heirloom, the Keller Coverlet

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  I wondered which project I would write about in my president's letter in a 2021 genealogy newsletter. While deliberating, a mysterious...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Hardship in an Appalachian Family

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Cumberland River, collection of the author Southeastern Kentucky was not an easy place to live in the late 1800s and early 1900s.  Much of t...
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Friday, October 27, 2023

Ohio County Agent Becomes a Naval Officer on a Liberty Ship During WW II

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                                                                 Eldon F. Studebaker, courtesy of Stephen Studebaker Eldon E. Studebaker, a ...
Saturday, October 14, 2023

A Backwoods Cemetery and a Civil War Mystery

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Several years ago, a trip to an abandoned cemetery in southeast Kentucky led me to a small project to learn more about a young man remembere...
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Monday, October 2, 2023

One Family's Contribution to the Union During the Civil War

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  George W. Putman and family, circa 1914-1918, courtesy of the Wendy Allen My great-grandfather, George W. Putman, was a Civil War veteran....
Tuesday, September 26, 2023

A 19th Century American Railroading Story

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"Pap Russell was a railroad man" seems like a fitting epitaph for William Hall Russell, my 2nd great-grandfather.   But it took a ...