Bond Family Chronicles Chapter One People 0 18 min readHardship, adversity and heartbreak can often serve as glue that binds families together. Such was the case with the ancestors...
The Women Went to Work Occupations 2 7 min readWhile there is no doubt in my mind that our earliest female ancestors worked, and worked very hard, their choices for...
Oysterman Shot, Deputy Sheriff Arrested Crimes 0 9 min readOyster Trade By the mid 1860’s, the ever-growing oyster market in New York City was assessed at close to five million...
Susan B. Anthony, Suffragette Advances 0 8 min readBorn to a Quaker family on 15 February 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts, Susan Brownell Anthony was a teacher, an abolitionist,...
Patent Medicines Medicine 3 7 min readPatent medicines are not, as the name would suggest, medicines that have been patented but rather they are commercial products...
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 Medicine 3 5 min readYellow fever, or yellow jack, or even yellow plague is a virus spread by infected mosquitoes. It’s first symptoms are...
The Ill-fated Sultana Disasters 3 5 min readLong before the Europeans came to North America, the Mississippi River was used by the native people to travel from...
