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
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 was that those most wanting this opportunity...
by Katie Rebecca Garner | Mar 6, 2026
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 push factor for emigration. As Irish people...
by Katie Rebecca Garner | Feb 27, 2026
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 WWII veteran relative is still alive and willing...
by Katie Rebecca Garner | Feb 20, 2026
Aside from the indigenous population, the U.S. is peopled with immigrants and descendants of immigrants. Some immigrant ancestors are as recent as parents or grandparents while other immigrant ancestors go as far back as colonial times. Which is why today we are...
