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The McCarthy Family's 1890s Recipe Book: Remedies and Meals
The McCarthy Family's 1890s recipe book is more than a set of cooking instructions. Its handwritten entries preserve practical knowledge passed through a…
The Brighton Family’s 1840s Oregon Trail Journey
The Brighton family’s migration belongs to the great westward movement that carried thousands of families from the settled United States towards Oregon during…
The brass bell that called the children to supper
Allen’s prose, “The Brass Bell That Called the Children to Supper,” turns a small domestic signal into a measure of family life. The bell does more than…
The South family's 1915 diary: daily life on the farm
The South family's 1915 diary offers a compact portrait of daily life on the farm. Its dated pages gather weather, chores, meals, visitors, illness and small…
John Tidwell, 1798–1875: an obituary and family memory
John Tidwell belonged to the American generations that shaped the Tidwell family line. His dates place him between the early national period and the closing…
The ship that brought the McCarthys to America
In the Hackworth family archive, one recurring question concerns the ship that brought the McCarthys to America. Their names appear in early census returns,…
Loni's photo album: The Telford family's Christmas gathering, 1947
The phrase Loni's Photo Album: The Telford Family's Christmas Gathering, 1947 names a private record with the texture of an ordinary Australian Christmas. The…
A Norwegian fjord cabin through an Australian lens
Home exchange in Norway offered us a slower, more revealing way to travel. Instead of treating a fjord as a scenic stop between larger cities, we looked at a…
The Squeak Of The Screen Door At Brighton Homestead
A screen door rarely announces itself as an important part of family history. It opens, closes, catches in its frame, and gives a small protesting squeak when…
Allen's how-to: Building a family tree with free online resources
A family tree becomes more than a chart of names when it is built as an evidence trail. For Allen and Loni Hackworth, the Tidwell, South, Brighton, Telford and…