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The Tidwell family's 1850 land grant deed: a transcription and analysis
In the autumn of 1850 a parcel of land along a quiet Tennessee watercourse passed from the hands of the state into those of a farmer named Ephraim Tidwell, who…
Martha Brighton Tidwell: a pioneer life remembered
Martha Brighton was born in the autumn of 1839 in a rural corner of the American South, a time when wagon tracks still outnumbered paved roads and most…
Home Exchange in Amsterdam: Living in a Dutch Canal House
For years we had been talking about spending more than a long weekend in the Netherlands. Allen had family research to chase up in the western Holland…
Reading the Hush of the Tidwell Cemetery at Dusk
Allen Hackworth's quiet verses have long found their subjects in the weathered corners of family memory, and few pieces carry that lineage feeling as plainly…
Tracing the McCarthy family's farming years in Indiana
The McCarthy family line appears across the family archive alongside the Tidwell, South, Brighton, and Telford branches, and their farming years in Indiana…
A digital tour through the Telford family’s 1900s photograph album
A family photograph album can look quiet at first glance: a sequence of faces, stiff poses, handwritten names and corners softened by age. Look more closely,…
Loni’s Prose And The Lace Collar Worn By Aunt Lillian South
A lace collar can look like a modest piece of clothing, yet it may carry an entire family’s sense of time. In Loni’s prose, the collar worn by Aunt Lillian…
The broken wagon wheel that marked a Tidwell homestead
When I was twelve, my grandmother sat down beside an old split-rail fence and narrated the rest of the day for me. She had been three years old when the wheel…
The Brighton Family’s 1920s Wireless Gatherings
A radio set in the 1920s was more than a household appliance. It was a new kind of doorway, carrying voices, music, news and distant events into an ordinary…
Building A Family Website That Keeps Stories Alive
A family website can be much more than a digital noticeboard. It can become a carefully arranged archive where photographs, letters, obituaries, recipes,…