Hoaxes, Fakes and Mistakes
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...
Read moreFamily Bibles
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...
Read moreWould I Recommend The Last Bunch of Books I Read?
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...
Read moreGoogle Images – eBay – Research
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...
Read moreDavid or Daniel?
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...
Read moreDid They Move to Florida?
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...
Read moreJames Richards Evans of Jefferson Co., Pennsylvania
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...
Read morePunxsutawney Phil lives in Pennsylvania, But in What County?
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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