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Hardship, adversity and heartbreak can often serve as glue that binds families together. Such was the case with the ancestors... Read More
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Oyster Trade By the mid 1860’s, the ever-growing oyster market in New York City was assessed at close to five million... Read More
Patent medicines are not, as the name would suggest, medicines that have been patented but rather they are commercial products... Read More
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Before online dating websites like Tinder or Match.com, how did our lonely ancestors find love? They placed advertisements in Matrimonial... Read More
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When Thomas Henry Blythe, a millionaire real estate tycoon from San Francisco died in 1883, no will was found among his... Read More
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The death of Thomas Henry Blythe in his sixtieth year sparked a battle in the probate courts that would last... Read More
Long before the Europeans came to North America, the Mississippi River was used by the native people to travel from... Read More
Women’s Occupations in the Early Twentieth Century The logical starting place to learn about what occupational opportunities were available for... Read More
Long before the internet and online ordering, mail order catalogues were one of the only ways that the American rural... Read More
While there is no doubt in my mind that our earliest female ancestors worked, and worked very hard, their choices for... Read More