Vol. 23, No. 29 — July 25, 2018
The Connecticut Witch Trials |
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If you thought the infamous Salem witch trials of 1692 were the only incident of witch hysteria in colonial America, that is understandable. This incident is widely known and talked about, probably because of the sheer volume of numbers of people who were convicted and accused. There were twenty victims who were unjustly
executed, while hundreds more for miles around and from far outside of Salem were accused and spent time in jail before the hysteria ended. However, the incident in Salem Village was not the first or only time this happened in colonial America. There are other incidents of witch hysteria or individual witch accusations that are simply overlooked. One of the most notorious of these “forgotten” witch incidents happened a generation before Salem in Hartford,
Connecticut... Read More
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America’s First Ladies, #42: Hillary Rodham Clinton |
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Our forty-second First Lady is still well known today from her ongoing political and public careers independent of her husband since leaving the White House. She is best known, after being First Lady, for being the first woman nominated for the US Presidency by a major political party... Read More
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Latest Genealogy Gold Podcast |
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It can be frustrating to finally locate a document you have been searching for a long time, one that gives you proof of an ancestor’s existence, or relationship to the generation before or after him or her, and then not be able to read it. Whether you find the original text and the handwriting is almost impossible to decipher, or you find a smudged, low-quality image of the document on
microfilm, microfiche, or online, do not despair. You can still get the information you need from that document. These are some tips you can use to decipher the seemingly un-decipherable... Read More
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Simple Tips for Reading Old Genealogy Documents |
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One of the really exciting things about genealogy research is coming across an ancient document pertaining to your ancestor, especially if it is one that no one else appears to have discovered. There are plenty of places across the country that keep original documents dating back two and three hundred years (and sometimes more!). You can often access these documents directly, or see copies
of them on microfilm or microfiche, depending on the repository you’re using, their policies, and the condition of the documents. Sometimes, you will come across scans of these documents online. Unless they have been transcribed by others, and a transcription is available, you will need to read them yourself. With some ancient documents, this is easier said than done... Read More
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What is a Reasonable Conclusion in Genealogy? |
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Sometimes, the direct proof we need just isn’t there in genealogy. Records are missing or non-existent. The records we do find have inaccuracies or missing information in them. We find records that have conflicting information. It can be frustrating when we can’t directly prove the relationships we need to prove for our research. However, just because we can’t make a direct connection
between two people (or between a person and an event) doesn’t mean that we can’t make a reasonable assumption about it... Read More
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I hope these ebooks will be beneficial to you and your genealogy research. The ebooks are completely free to you today, although you are welcome to leave a small donation of any amount to help with future projects. Thank you so
much!Start Reading
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Today's Photography Article
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Every artist has a voice. Writers express their voice through the tone, style and underlying meanings of a piece. Painters express it with colors, brush strokes and compositions. Perhaps that is an over-simplified explanation of what it means to have an artistic voice, but the point remains: Artists all have voices, no matter the medium.
So what is the photographer’s voice? How does he or she express that voice? It’s a complicated topic, one that could likely take hours upon hours of discussion. At its very basic essence, your voice is your purpose...
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