The U.S. census takes place every ten years. Finding an ancestor and their activities between those years can be challenging. Correspondence—even if it was never sent—can provide clues. My grandfather was Harold Paulson, a Swedish immigrant. In 1909 he wrote a postcard to N. Paulson in Sweden—it was never sent …
May 1st sounds like it was a nightmare in New York City! I’m glad my ancestors lived in lightly populated county areas. The one thing genealogists should remember about this Moving Day craziness it that it effects the evidence genealogists use to search family histories, namely city directories. For instance, …
When you know where your ancestors should be but you can’t find them in the records–where do they go? What if they went to a place where there are no records? When I explored my Williams family line I found they disappeared from records and went to an area termed …
Repairing shoes is a great inflation beating tactic. It’s what our parents and grandparents did and it satisfies the Gen Z urge to see one less pair in a landfill. My local repair shop is like a step back into time. It’s 1932 all over again! All photographs by Vanessa …
It was time for a fieldtrip to the Eric Sloane Museum in Kent, Connecticut. It contains a fascinating collection of antique American hand tools (and some that worked under oxen, horse and even dog power). It’s fun to see tools that are often mentioned in 18th and 19th century wills. …
