Vol. 20, No. 107 - December 20, 2015
Remembering Pets in Your Family History |
|
Pets are important parts of our lives and families, and they were just as important to our ancestors. Just look at the Little House on the Prairie book series by Laura Ingalls
Wilder; in her early books, which cover her young childhood years, she talks a lot about the family dog Jack, the brindle bulldog. This was in the early 1870’s that the stories with Jack took place, and she talks about how Jack would walk for hundreds of miles across the prairie under their covered wagon as he accompanied the family on their various moves as pioneers. Even in old age, when she wrote the books, Wilder still thought fondly of her childhood dog. Pets are essentially furry,
four-legged family members, and they should be remembered in our family histories for the important parts they played in our lives, just as Wilder remembered Jack (and now countless generations of people know about Jack, too). Here’s how to do it.
Read More
|
The Years Without Christmas: Puritans Against the Holiday in Colonial New England |
|
The Puritans who first colonized Massachusetts were Christians. They were radical in the eyes of the established Anglican church of England in the 1600’s, and so were persecuted. Wanting to worship according
to their Bible-based beliefs, they came to America to start a community that would be built solely on the Bible they loved. They called it “a city on a hill,” which is a Biblical reference to a parable Jesus told in Matthew 5:14-15, which explained that such a city could not be hidden, and its light of righteousness would be visible for all the world to see. This is what the Puritans wanted for their colony, without the worldly influence of other
religions...
Read More
|
Latest Genealogy Gold Podcast
|
Do you have New Jersey ancestors and don’t know where to begin looking for them? Here are the best sources for New Jersey genealogy, both on and offline…
|
|
Listen
|
|
Click here to submit your Hard to Find
Surname.
|
|
|
|
