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The McCarthy Sisters: Stories From the 1910 Census
A census page can look like a quiet list of names, ages, and places. Read closely, however, it becomes a small family portrait. The 1910 United States Census…
Allen’s prose: a memory of summertime on the farm
Summertime on the farm arrived with a particular kind of brightness. Morning light spread across the fields before anyone had finished breakfast, touching the…
How We Documented the Telford Family in Census Records
The Telford family history came together through small pieces of evidence gathered over time. Census schedules became some of the most useful pieces because…
A 1903 letter preserved in the family archive
A letter written in 1903 can seem modest at first: a few pages, familiar handwriting, a date, and perhaps an envelope softened by age. Yet such a document may…
Brighton military service through the family record
Military service can give a family history a clear sense of time. An enlistment date, draft card, unit reference, discharge paper, or obituary can connect one…
Home exchange etiquette: lessons from our first swap
Our first home exchange began with a practical decision and ended with a lesson in hospitality. We wanted to travel without reducing a new place to a hotel…
The fields of Tidwell County: a family landscape in verse
A field can be a place on a map, a working piece of ground, or a quiet container for memory. In family history, it often becomes all three at once. The rows,…
Following the Missing Thread in John Brighton’s Family Line
Genealogy Dead Ends: The Search for John Brighton’s Parents is a familiar kind of family-history problem. A researcher finds a named ancestor in a census,…
The Telford Family Bible: A Record of Births and Deaths
A family Bible can preserve a kind of history that formal registers often miss. Its handwritten pages may connect names, dates, marriages, children, and deaths…
Allen Hackworth on the art of writing historical fiction
Historical fiction begins where documented history meets the imaginative life of ordinary people. Dates, names, places, and records establish what happened,…