Showing posts with label Book Recommendations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Book Recommendations. Show all posts
Saturday, April 15, 2017

Saturday Serendipity (April 15, 2017)

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Here are a few recommendations for your weekend reading. 1.  If you have any roots in Rhode Island or southeast Massachusetts around...
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Wednesday, March 8, 2017

History, Genealogy, and Ice Harvesting

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History and Genealogy are conjoined twins, and like all such twins, while they are intimately connected, they each eventually and ine...
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Saturday, October 3, 2015

Saturday Serendipity (October 3, 2015)

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After a brief hiatus for a trip to the Adirondacks, Saturday Serendipity returns this week with an unusual posting -- a single recomm...
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Thursday, September 25, 2014

Another Book Recommendation (September 25, 2014) -- "Sustainable Genealogy: Separating Fact From Fiction In Family Legends"

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This past Sunday I had the opportunity to attend a lecture by author Richard Hite at our local history/genealogy library in Leesburg,...
Thursday, September 4, 2014

"Making Haste From Babylon" by Nick Bunker -- Delving Deep Into the Pilgrim Story (September 4, 2014)

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It has been almost half a year since I used this space to recommend an article or book that I believe could be of particular interest t...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

The Most Lethal Plague in History -- The Influenza Pandemic of 1918

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Camp Funston, Kansas makeshift hospital for men with influenza (1918) As Geneabloggers and others have noted, today is regarded as the...
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Thursday, February 27, 2014

"Posterity" by Dorie McCullough Lawson -- An Inspiration and Resource for All Genealogists (February 27, 2014)

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From time to time I have used this space to recommend an article or book that I believe is of particular interest to those of us involv...
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Sunday, December 8, 2013

"Lost Ancestor-Speak" (December 8, 2013)

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The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin was published on November 5, 2013.  I am a good way into the book and despite some of the n...
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Friday, October 25, 2013

Friday Fotos (October 25, 2013) -- Abby Greene Aldrich of Providence, Rhode, Island

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Abby Greene Aldrich, age 6. Abby Greene Aldrich circa 1890. Abby Greens Aldrich as a debutante in October 1893 ...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

Genealogy, Genealogists, Science & Healthcare . . . Oh My! (October 24, 2013)

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Typhoid Death Rates 1890, 1906 and 1918.  [Cartoon by Zim, 1919] Amid all the current controversy swirling around healthcare avail...