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The Scent of Lavender in Grandmother McCarthy’s Garden
Some family memories arrive as dates, addresses and names carefully copied from a parish register. Others return through the senses: the warmth of a brick…
The Tidwell Family’s 1880s Wedding Invitation: A Reproduction
A wedding invitation from the 1880s can appear modest at first glance: a small card, carefully worded names, a date, and a location. Yet such an item can…
Tracking South Family Railroad Work In The 1890s
The South family’s railroad employment in the 1890s can be read as more than a list of occupations and dates. Railway work placed relatives within a rapidly…
Allen’s prose: The candle mold found in the Brighton cellar
A candle mould is a modest object, easily overlooked among broken tools, old jars and the dusty odds and ends that gather in a cellar. Yet Allen’s prose gives…
Loni’s Photo Album: The Telford Sisters’ Graduation Day in 1920
A single photograph can hold an entire family story in its quiet details. Loni’s album preserves an image of the Telford sisters on their graduation day in…
The McCarthy family's baptismal records from St. Patrick's Church
St. Patrick's Church sits quietly at the heart of a small river town, its stone walls holding more than a century of Catholic life for the families who settled…
Following Tidwell Land Holdings Through 1830s Tax Records
Tax documents sit quietly in courthouse basements and faded microfilm reels, overshadowed by the louder cousins of genealogy research: wills, marriage bonds,…
Reading Old Ink: A Paleography Guide for Family Letters
When a stack of creased envelopes arrives from a cousin in Adelaide or surfaces in a Tupperware box in the laundry cupboard, who among us is not tempted to set…
Elizabeth Telford South 1845-1920: A Family Record from the Telford Line
Elizabeth Telford South was born in 1845 and died in 1920, spanning three quarters of the nineteenth century and the first troubled years of the twentieth. Her…
Living in a centuries-old Barcelona flat through a home exchange
The first evening in the flat began with the sound of keys turning in a heavy iron lock, the kind that has opened ten thousand times since the building was…