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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

It is hard to set out families prior to the 1880 census with certainty. The 1850, 1860 and 1870 federal census list household members by name but do not include relationships. Inferences can be made when the male head of...

Find Mrs. J. R. Evans. Mary Ann (Smeck) Barlet and Tobias S. Barlet of Reading, Berks Co., Pennsylvania had three children; William Edward, Emma Rebecca, and Hannah Mary. The eldest son died young. When Emma Rebecca (Barlet) Bradshaw died in...

Philadelphia research isn’t easy. Even the maps make it hard. It’s a city between two rivers, the Delaware on the East and the Schuylkill on the West. S. A. Mitchell published a colored map with the wards identified, but...