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Success, But Support Still Needed: An UPDATE on the United States Cadet Nurse...
Cadet Nurse Corps recruitment posterCadet Nurse Corps badgeCadet Nurse Corps pledge pinSince the post of December 5th, many citizens, former Cadet Nurses, and family members of deceased Cadet Nurses...
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Amends (December 18, 2020)
[Bernard A. Handler is my brother-in-law (husband of my sister Susan). He has been a guest blogger here before...
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Into Real Pages -- A New Blog-to-Book Producer (December 20, 2020)
Ever since I began blogging I have worried about how best to preserve for my sons–and now my granddaughters–the fruits of my family history blogging efforts. As I first mentioned in a blog post dated...
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Dear Descendants: The Events of January 6, 2021 (January 8, 2021)
[I remind readers that these occasional letters to my descendants are intended to share and explain my experience living through various momentous events that happened during my life. As such, they...
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Mission Accomplished -- Capturing Blog Posts In Permanent Book Form (August...
My eight-month long hiatus from blogging is now coming to an end and I am slowly going to get back to posting again. The task I set for myself of capturing my 750+ blog posts into book form for more...
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As Requested . . . A Look Inside My Most Recent Blog Book (September 9, 2021)
Following the most recent post about my blog-to-book efforts, Nancy, one of the long-time readers of this blog, commented that she was considering making books of her genealogy blog ( My Ancestors and...
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Saturday Serendipity (October 23, 2021)
As I ease back into more regular blogging, here are a few suggested reads for this weekend.1. James Tanner of Genealogy's Star blog posted this week about the incredible number of documents and...
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Genealogical Amnesia (October 29, 2021)
CNN recently showcased a commentary from The Conversation, a collaboration between academics and journalists. The August 13, 2021 commentary by Jeanne Shinskey, of the Royal Holloway Univeristy of...
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Saturday Serendipity (October 30, 2021)
Here are a few suggested reads while you are waiting near the door for those trick-or-treaters to arrive tomorrow night . . . 1. As DNA becomes an increasingly important and useful tool in...
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Saturday Serendipity (November 6, 2021)
Here are a few selected reads recommended for this weekend . . . 1. As someone who recently discovered my descent from a married couple accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts (and wrote about...
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Heather's Honor Roll Project (November 11, 2021)––Wallingford, CT World War...
Today -- Thursday, November 11, 2021 -- is Veterans Day. Among the military Honor Roll memorials located in Wallingford, Connecticut on the grounds of the Town Hall is one for those who served (and...
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Saturday Serendipity (November 13, 2021)
Here are a few recommended reads for this weekend.1. With all the recent attention to the "right to privacy" and its close cousin, the much touted and often misconstrued right of "personal...
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Heather's Honor Roll Project (November 14, 2021)---Wallingford, CT World War...
Three days ago, November 11, 2021, I contributed to the 2021 call for additions to the Honor Roll project of Heather Rojo by posting the sixth listing of surnames on the World War II Memorial in...
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What Is HathiTrust and Why Do Genealogists Need to Be Familiar With it?
In 2008 a group of a dozen universities and the eleven libraries in the University of California system founded what was called the HathiTrust. The universities involved were those members of the...
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Saturday Serendipity (November 27, 2021)
As folks recover from the gathering and feasting of Thankgiving, here are a few suggested reads while dealing with the guilt of overindulging. ;-)1. A little over a week ago there was a post on...
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Satruday Serendipity (December 18, 2021)
Here are just a few quick reads for this last weekend before the festivities of Christmas weekend arrive.1. The Weekly Genealogist of NEHGS noted a piece about Christmas in the past titled "6 Ways...
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Dear Descendant: Strange Holiday Juxtapositions in the Midst of a Deadly...
[I remind readers that my blog posts are periodically made into hardbound volumes to preserve and pass on to my descendants research and stories about our family history, my thoughts on genealogy in...
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Christmas Saturday Serendipity (December 25, 2021)
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all!For this Christmas Saturday Serendipity I suggest a little trip down memory lane for those of us who are old enough to recall the winter Christmas scenes...
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The Women Who Served In Rhode Island (1943-1945): Let's Say Their Names!
THE U.S. CADET NURSE CORPS AND THE WOMEN WHO SERVED IN RHODE ISLAND 1943-1945John D. TewAs we approach the third year of the world-wide COVID-19 pandemic, with its devastating impact on our medical...
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Saturday Serendipity (January 22, 2022)
After a month long hiatus Saturday Serendipity returns with the following suggested reads for this very cold weekend.1. The Weekly Genealogist of NEHGS highlighted an important article recently...
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Saturday Serendipity (February 5, 2022)
Here are a few recommended reads for your weekend.1. With the release of the 1950 Federal Census this coming April, now is a good time to revisit the history of the Census and to re-familiarize with...
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A New England Childhood Tradition, But Is It Still Popular With Parents and...
I recently had occasion to recall and research a tradition in my family that goes back at least five generations now (and probably more). My family on both my mother's side and my father's have deep...
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Whaling History, Melville's Moby Dick, and Rhode Island Genealogy (March 31,...
[I have been on a hiatus from blogging while I work on a genealogy of the Tew family of Rhode Island descended from Richard Tew and his wife, Mary (Clarke) Tew, who arrived in New England from England...
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NERGC 2023 Is Almost Here . . . and Back Live! (February 5, 2023)
It has been almost a year since I last posted here, but part of the reason is the time otherwise devoted to writing a compiled genealogy of the Tew family descended from Richard and Mary (Clarke) Tew...
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Dear Descendants . . . Who Are We As Americans? (October 22, 2024)
[It has been over a year since I last posted on this blog. Much has happened in that time including the birth of two more granddaughters and the death of my mother. I have been working on what I...
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