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Friday Fotos (April 19, 2013) -- Helen R. (Cooke) Roberts
Helen (Cooke) Roberts (r) reading to her half sister, Constance CookeHelen Raeder Cooke, was the older sister of my grandmother, Ruth Eaton (Cooke) Carpenter. Helen was born on February 21, 1892 in...
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Saturday Serendipity -- April 20, 2013
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Samaritan Sunday (April 21, 2013)
The parable of the Good Samaritan is from the New Testament of the Bible in the gospel according to Luke, and, as almost everybody knows, it is about someone helping a stranger when no one else would....
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Tombstone Tuesday (April 23, 2013) -- The John and Margaret Tew Family...
Tew Family Plot in Moshassuck Cemetery, Central Falls, Rhode IslandI have written elsewhere at The Prism about the sadness that visited the nuclear family of my great grandparents, John and Maggie Tew....
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Treasure Chest Thursday (April 25, 2013)
Invitation to the 200th Anniversary of the Town of Attleborough, Massachusetts (Incorporated 1694)The Town of Attleborough, Massachusetts celebrated its Bi-Centennial Anniversary on Thursday, October...
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Friday Fotos (April 26, 2013)
Margaret (Collins) HayesMargaret (Collins) Hayes is my wife's great grandmother and my sons' great great grandmother. She was born in Ireland in February 1859 and she died in New York (the precise...
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Saturday Serendipity (April 27, 2013)
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A Poem For My Broheim at 52
April is National Poetry Month. With only today and three more days left to make another amateur contribution to the literary event, I take this opportunity to recognize in poem the younger of my two...
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Samaritan Sunday (April 28, 2013)
Earlier this month there was a graveside ceremony in Reading, Pennsylvania. It was held at the grave of Levi Schlegel, who was a private in the Civl War. Levi was one of the lucky ones to survive...
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Mom vs. Google: Note To Self . . . Always Remember Mom Can Be A Primary Source!
A few weeks ago, in this Friday Fotos post, I spotlighted the 1927 groundbreaking for the construction of the "Masonic Temple Lonsdale, RI" as captioned above on the back of the original photograph of...
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Tombstone Tuesday (April 30, 2013) -- William Henry Tew
This gravestone is for William Henry Tew, the son of Adam Tew and Susan A. (Walker) Tew, my 2x great grandparents. Little is known of William other than he was born in 1858, most likely in Coventry,...
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The May Day Basket Tradition -- A Reminder From May 1, 1849
In the minds of many people today (perhaps especially Baby Boomers and their parents), the 1st of May has come to be more associated with images of the huge military parades of the former Soviet Union...
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Treasure Chest Thursday (May 2, 2013) -- The Official Programme of the 200th...
As a follow-up to last Thursday's Treasure Chest post, here is the scanned image of an original copy of the Official Programme for Celebrating the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation of...
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Friday Fotos (May 3, 2013) -- Girls and Young Women Beware!
Poster from a Vermont train station 1915The poster shown above was collected by my grandfather, Arnold G. Tew, from a train station in Vermont back in 1915. It was a warning to young women not to...
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Saturday Serendipity (May 4, 2013)
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Samaritan Sunday (May 5, 2013)
[If you should choose to adopt this prompt to contribute stories of folks who have gone out of their way to lend genealogy-related assistance to others, I would greatly appreciate a mention to...
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Tombstone Tuesday -- A Mystery
Ebenezer Freeman is my 3x great grandfather. Ebenezer was born in 1776 -- probably in Mendon, Massachusetts. He married Sally Legg on November 13, 1803 in Mendon. Sally was born on March 3, 1783 in...
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Treasure Chest Thursday -- 97 Years Ago Today (Everett S. Carpenter's 1916...
This is the paper driver's license granted to my grandfather 97 years ago today! Everett S. Carpenter was permitted to "operate a motor vehicle other than a motor cycle" in Rhode Island for one year...
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Friday Fotos (May 10, 2013)
Maidford River -- Newport, Rhode Island (March 29, 2010)Maidford River -- Newport, Rhode Island (March 29, 2010)My ancestor, Richard Tew, was born in Maidford, Northhamptonshire, England in 1605. He...
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Saturday Serendipity (May 11, 2013)
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