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Remembering Ann South Brighton, 1790–1867
The obituary of Ann South Brighton opens a narrow but meaningful doorway into a long family history. She is recorded as living from 1790 to 1867, a span of…
A practical guide to preserving old family letters
Old family letters preserve more than names and dates. They record handwriting, family habits, wartime worries, health, work and the small events that official…
Tracing Brighton Roots Through Virginia Land Patents
A family name can appear in an old record long before it becomes easy to place on a modern map. Brighton researchers working with 18th-century Virginia…
Reading The McCarthy Family’s 1900 Census Record
The 1900 census offers a compact view of a McCarthy household at a particular moment in family history. Names, ages, relationships, birthplace details,…
The Tidwell migration from Tennessee to Arkansas across generations
The Hackworth archive preserves a long arc of Tidwell history, from the earliest ancestors in the Appalachian foothills to branches that settled along the…
The Hickory Cane and the Memory of Uncle Thomas Brighton
A handmade cane can carry a family story in a way that a formal record rarely does. It has a shape, weight, smell and surface that connect the past with the…
A Home Exchange in France: Life in a Dordogne Cottage
A home exchange in France offers Australian families a different kind of holiday: a stone cottage in the Dordogne, a village bakery, and time to absorb local…
Candlelight on the McCarthy Bible verse
For the Hackworth family archive, Allen's poem "The Candle Flicker on the McCarthy Bible" sits among the quieter pieces — writing that settles into the…
A Telford family letter from the Union Army reaches home in 1865
On a winter afternoon in early 1865, a folded letter made its way toward a small household holding the Telford name. By that stage of the war, letters from…
Remembering James Brighton, 1848–1925: A life across the Victorian age
James Brighton was born in 1848, just as the great migrations of the nineteenth century were reshaping communities across the English-speaking world. He lived…