Barbara K. Henritze

The Historian as Detective: Essays on Evidence edited by Robin W. Winks

Hoaxes, Fakes and Mistakes

By Barbara K. Henritze
on March 5, 2014

Last month I saw a rerun of a British Antiques Roadshow from Belfast in January 2009. The camera that captured the Cottingley Fairies was the subject of one of the appraisals. The idea that two girls fooled Sir Arthur...

Dr. Seuss' One fish two fish red fish blue fish

Cosa Dos

By Barbara K. Henritze
on March 3, 2014

Theodor Seuss Geisel would have been 100 years old this past weekend. He was a prolific writer, more than sixty books. I have ten. Sixty is impressive by anyone’s count. I don’t love him, I don’t hate him, I...

By Barbara K. Henritze
on March 1, 2014

Keep, Gift or Donate? When you are the lucky one, when you receive the physical book, the family Bible, you are probably thinking ahead to what will happen when it is no longer your responsibility. Recently there have been...

Bibles

By Barbara K. Henritze
on February 27, 2014

Preservation vs. Access Where would historians be if families across the country had not contributed their massive manuscript collections to various repositories over the last four hundred years? I wrote a lecture about finding the right repository for your family...

Would I Recommend The Last Bunch of Books I Read?

By Barbara K. Henritze
on February 26, 2014

A friend asked what I was reading and what would I recommend. I don’t do that much. Everyone’s taste is so different and mine had never matched someone else’s. She was persistant, so here is a list of the...

Google Images – eBay – Research

By Barbara K. Henritze
on February 18, 2014

Every so often I check Google Images to see what sort of new Henritze images are out there. Most of them are recent photographs labeled with some particular Henritze’s name. This older style photograph was different and so it...

David or Daniel?

By Barbara K. Henritze
on February 13, 2014

Most styles of cursive handwriting leave the words David and Daniel looking way too similar. If you don’t already know the given name, it can be very tough to tell which it might be. If you have trouble telling...

Did They Move to Florida?

By Barbara K. Henritze
on February 6, 2014

Arizona, California, Florida, North Carolina and Texas all have huge callings as retirements spots. When people retire, they want better weather, fewer chores and less restrictions. Newport, Rhode Island and various shoreline communities in Maine, Connecticut and Long Island...

James Richards Evans of Jefferson Co., Pennsylvania

By Barbara K. Henritze
on February 4, 2014

Rev. James Richards Evans of Pennsylvania married Hannah Mary Barlet of Pennsylvania in 1941 in Florida. Hannah a distant cousin of mine, third cousin twice removed, was married three times. She and her first husband had two children that...

Pennsylvania map with Boundary Lines for Jefferson Co. delineated

Punxsutawney Phil lives in Pennsylvania, But in What County?

By Barbara K. Henritze
on February 1, 2014

I have been reading about Punxsutawney Phil for fifty years including articles in the Weekly Reader, an important, well-known source of news. Wikipedia lists his surname as Sowerby but that is uncorroborated. I have never checked a Pennsylvania map for his...

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