If you’re interested in genealogy you know that feeling when you are dying to share a great find but you have not found anyone who shares the interest. Maybe you belong to a genealogical organization that see a lag in membership among the young or flailing new membership. How do …
What’s a trip to the Maryland State Archives without a side trip to Baltimore. We went to the Westminster Hall and Burying Ground on Fayette Street to see Edgar Allan Poe’s gravesite. It’s a lovely small, and slightly spooky cemetery. Another interesting burial is James McHenry–Fort McHenry is named for …
When I opened up the April 2021 issue of The NYG&B Record (152:160) I saw Myra Vanderpool Gormley has passed away. You may have encountered Myra as a journalist or one of her books on Family Tree Maker, Cherokees, etc. Her contributions to advancing genealogy are in her obituary, available …
I’m still amazed by all the tree damage done to Connecticut by the “storm” on May 15th. I think the man who wrote to the editor was Noah Webster. You know, the guy who wrote the dictionary! He wrote of a tornado in 1839: “I was at the house of …
