by Katie Rebecca Garner | Mar 27, 2026
This installment of the Easter newspaper series focuses on mentions of Easter in Revolutionary War-era newspapers. I searched GenealogyBank’s Historical Newspaper Archives for the keyword “Easter” and narrowed the results down to 1775-1783. Just like in the colonial...
by Katie Rebecca Garner | Mar 20, 2026
With Easter approaching, I thought it would be fun to look back and see what Easter meant to our ancestors, and how they celebrated it. In this blog series, I have gone through GenealogyBank’s Historical Newspaper Archives looking for mentions of Easter. Photo...
by Katie Rebecca Garner | Mar 13, 2026
This article is also published by Price Genealogy. Colonial America was a land of opportunity, offering possibilities and freedoms that most impoverished Europeans could only dream of. With a voyage across the Atlantic, these dreams could become realities. The problem...
by Katie Rebecca Garner | Mar 6, 2026
This blog is also posted by GenealogyBank. So many people emigrated from Ireland in the 1700s &1800s that there are now more people outside of Ireland with Irish heritage than there are people in Ireland. The potato famine in the mid-1800s was an especially huge...
by Katie Rebecca Garner | Feb 27, 2026
This blog is also posted by Price Genealogy. Historical Background Not long ago, everyone’s father or grandpa had been involved in World War 2. Now that it’s the 2020s, as WWII veterans are moving on, their stories need to be remembered. This is easy to do if your...
