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Last post , I said Minnie got into the DAR on the strength of Thomas Lennington 's soldiering against our colonial overlords in Britain....

Volume 34 of the Lineage book - National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (1912) gives a lineage for Minnie Roelker show...

I like doing historical research but have wondered what genie drives people who do the genealogical kind. Both sorts of research can be fru...

I've written before about Louis Windmüller, one of my great-grandpas. 1 As a teenager, he emigrated from Münster to New York, all by h...

I like photographs that draw my eye into the frame. I like the illusion of space in ones that use converging lines to give me a pathway int...

An illustration I showed yesterday 1 has New York's crust appreciating some paintings and each others' company at a gallery located...

In 1873 Harper's Weekly showed its readers this drawing of a disreputable tenement house in Manhattan's Little Italy. {Caption: A t...

This photo comes from a series taken in July 1937 by Dorothea Lange while on assignment in rural Georgia. She took many in Greene and Maco...

The History of Greene County , Georgia, by Dave Buckhout, paints a dismal picture of struggle and loss among African American tenant farmers...

Farmers in Macon County, Georgia, suffered hard times during the 1930s and sharecroppers had it particularly bad. 1 As in Greene County , ...