by Katie Rebecca Garner | Apr 17, 2026
Many American history classes begin with New England settlement in the early 1600s. Even though other colonies which are now part of the U.S. were being settled around that time, the colonies comprising New England were among the first to band together and eventually...
by Katie Rebecca Garner | Apr 10, 2026
Who likes taxes? Most people don’t. Our ancestors probably didn’t either, yet their tax records leave a genealogically valuable paper trail. We are taxed at various jurisdictional levels, including federal, state, and local. This was also the case for our ancestors,...
by Katie Rebecca Garner | Apr 3, 2026
Continuing the Easter newspaper series, this installment focuses on newspapers from the Civil War period. There were many more search results for this period than the two previous ones in this series (see links at the end of this article). I searched...
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...
