Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Future: Have a Plan for Bequeathing Your Research
Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Future: Have a Plan for Bequeathing Your Research, originally published 2 April 2020,...
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Donating Photographs and Documents: What Every Family Historian Should Know
Museums, archives, and historical societies don't magically fill with documents and artifacts — they rely on people like you and...
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Donated Mary Rosalind Parr’s Photographs to the Boone County Historical Society
I'm pleased to share that I've donated three photographs of Mary Rosalind (Parr) Cunningham (1911–1995) to the Boone County Historical...
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There’s Something Lost When Cursive Writing Disappeared
People are taught cursive, but they simply don't practice it. In losing that practice, they miss the chance to leave...
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What a Cropped Gravestone Photo Won’t Tell You
If you could erase one trend from history, what would it be? Scroll through Find A Grave long enough and...
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NEW ARTICLE: The Good Templars’ Lodge at Dry Fork, Sumner County, Tennessee
I'm pleased to share the publication of my article, "Members of The Good Templars Lodge #637 at Dry Fork, Sumner...
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NEW ARTICLE: Benjamin Williams of Barren County, KY in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly (NGSQ), June 2026
I'm delighted to announce that my article "Unearthing the Migration of Benjamin Williams from North Carolina to Kentucky" has been...
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NEW ARTICLE: A Forfeited Recognizance Bond and 118 Signatures: An 1805 Legislative Petition Fills Gaps in Anderson County Records
I'm pleased to announce the publication of my latest article: "A Forfeited Recognizance Bond and 118 Signatures: An 1805 Legislative...
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Ben C. Williams (born about 1840): Unorganized Territory and Indian Wars Pension–Served in the Texas Rangers
Hazel B. Green, interviewed Ben C. Williams in 1937 for the Federal Writers Project, a Depression-era Works Project Administration (WPA)...
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Colorized Historical Photos: I have Strong Opinions
Back in the twentieth century my beloved aunt gave me a tintype of my great-great grandfather Wesley Cunningham. In the...
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William Thomas Rule (1868-1957), A Montana Biography: Awarded First Prize
I'm excited to announce I'm the first prize winner of the Missoula Public Library Family History Writing Contest. Articles become...
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NEW ARTICLE: Anne “Augusta” Simon, New Canaan, CT’s Hometown Artist
I live in Connecticut but seldom get a chance to write about someone from this state. My great aunt, Gerda...
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NEW YEAR, NEW ARTICLE: Vera Sinclair’s Friends from Englewood High School [Colorado]
A group of student photographs included in an eBay auction were a mystery. No provenance. No photographer's name. They were...
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Unique Census Record: This Census Enumerator Used A Stamp
John Yost, the 1870 U.S. census enumerator for Shawneetown, Gallatin County, Illinois employed a unique hack that perhaps made the...
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New Year. Time To Take Stock.
So this is ChristmasAnd what have you done?Another year overAnd a new one just begun.John Lennon, Happy Xmas (War Is...
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Four Men Named James Cunningham– Which One Witnessed Janet (McDonald) Cameron’s Will in Bullitt County, Kentucky in 1799?
Through out 2024 I was working through some genealogical problems in early Louisville, Kentucky (see post). It was a popular...
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NEW ARTICLE: Oly Eckhardt, Nashville Tailor, Saloon Keeper, Grocer
I'm pleased to announce the publication of my latest article, "Tailor, Saloon Keeper, Grocer: Nashville Native John 'Oly' Eckhardt (b....
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NEW ARTICLE: 1809 Wilson County, Tennessee Legislative Petition for Zebulon Baird
What secrets can handwriting reveal about a 215-year-old murder case? Back in March I was able to view a Tennessee...
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It’s Here! The Kinship Papers, Volume 1
NOW AVAILABLE: The Kinship Papers, Volume 1 I'm pleased to announce that The Kinship Papers: Genealogical Articles by Vanessa Wood,...
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Genealogy Tip: What Happens in Genealogy When You LET IT GO?
It's surprising. When we let go in genealogical research we can get past research and writing hurdles. What can we...
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