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Loni’s Photo Album: The Telford Children and Their First Automobile
A family photograph can preserve a moment that official records overlook. In this image, the Telford children stand beside the family’s first automobile,…
The handwritten recipe behind a family apple butter story
Allen’s Essay: The Handwritten Recipe for Grandmother Brighton’s Apple Butter begins with a small domestic record: a recipe written by hand, kept among family…
Lillian Tidwell South: A Life Remembered, 1878–1965
An obituary is a small document carrying a large amount of family history. In a few lines, it may preserve a person’s name, dates, relationships, residence,…
The Rain on the Telford Roof
Rain can preserve a place as clearly as a photograph. It records the pitch of a roof, the smell of wet earth, the pause between thunder and a child’s question.…
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,…