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Reading the South Family Farm Diary Through Daily Life
The South Family’s 1860s diary offers a close view of rural life as it was experienced hour by hour: rising early, tending animals, repairing tools, preparing…
Preserving fragile obituary clippings in archival sleeves
An obituary clipping can be a small piece of paper with an unusually large family history inside it. It may identify a parent, confirm a marriage, name a town,…
Chronology Of The McCarthy Family’s Arrival In New York In The 1840s
The McCarthy family story belongs to a much wider movement of Irish migration across the Atlantic during the nineteenth century. A New York arrival in the…
Loni’s Prose: The Patchwork Quilt Stitched by Aunt Clara Brighton
Loni’s prose about Aunt Clara Brighton treats family memory as something assembled slowly, from scraps that have survived ordinary lives. The image of a…
Telford Family Schoolhouse Photograph from 1895: A Closer Look
The image surfaced in a biscuit tin at the back of a wardrobe in Ballarat, wrapped in pale cotton that smelled faintly of cedar. Allen photographed the verso…
Finding McCarthy heirlooms through probate records
Probate records sit quietly among the most underused resources in family history research. While birth certificates and shipping manifests get the attention,…
John Tidwell Jr and the Record of a Life
The obituary of John Tidwell Jr., who lived from 1825 to 1901, offers more than a notice of death. It marks the end of one life while opening a path into…
A Tuscan Farmhouse With Olive Groves for an Australian Home Swap
Tuscany has long drawn travellers from Australia, and a farmhouse surrounded by olive trees offers something a city hotel never can: morning light across the…
The sound of the blacksmith's hammer in the Brighton forge
There is a particular kind of memory that lives in rhythm rather than image. For Allen Hackworth, the steady clang of iron on iron is one of those memories,…
Transcribing the Tidwell Family's Civil War Correspondence
In a cardboard folder inside an oak chest, alongside buttons, photographs, and a worn Bible, sat a bundle of letters unopened for nearly a century and a half.…