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Allen’s Notes on the Brighton Family’s Scottish Origins
Allen Hackworth’s notes on the Brighton family offer a personal way into a much larger story: how a Scottish family line was remembered, documented, and…
Poem: The Morning Light Through the Telford Kitchen Window
A kitchen window can hold more family history than a formal portrait. It frames the ordinary scene where someone pours tea, checks the weather, hears a magpie…
Using Probate Records to Trace McCarthy Landholdings
Using probate records to trace McCarthy landholdings means following evidence across several kinds of documents rather than searching for a single definitive…
Loni’s prose and the family story in Aunt Ruth’s cookbook
A handwritten cookbook can preserve much more than instructions for making scones, stews or birthday cakes. In Loni’s prose, Aunt Ruth’s cookbook becomes a…
Remembering Eliza Telford South, 1845–1911
Eliza Telford South lived across a period of considerable change. Born in 1845 and remembered through her death in 1911, she belonged to a generation that…
Home exchange in Italy: a lemon grove villa on the Amalfi Coast
A home exchange on the Amalfi Coast offers a different kind of Italian holiday. Instead of moving through hotels in Naples, Positano and Ravello, an Australian…
Allen’s Essay: The Mystery of the Unmarked Grave in the Family Plot
A family plot usually appears to promise certainty. Names are carved into stone, dates are aligned, and the arrangement of graves seems to tell a settled…
The Brighton children at the county fair in 1922
Loni’s photo album preserves more than a cheerful outing. The image of the Brighton children at the county fair in 1922 captures a particular family day, with…
Tracing the Tidwell family migration routes, 1800–1900
The Tidwell family’s nineteenth-century story is best understood as a sequence of movements across the expanding United States rather than as a single journey.…
The Lost Pocket Watch of Allen’s Grandfather
A lost pocket watch can seem like a minor family mystery: a small case, a stopped mechanism, a name that may or may not be engraved inside. Yet objects carried…