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06/16/2026

How to spot a really old barn.

06/07/2026

A beautiful 1877 Victorian with a mansard roof near Boston.

06/05/2026

On the edge of Boston Common lies the Central Burying Ground, with the oldest stones dating from the 1750s. It’s not Boston’s oldest colonial-era cemetery; both the Kings burial ground and the Granary burial ground date from the mid-1600s.

05/27/2026

1840-era Scottish stone house in Northern New York. It’s part of the grounds of the Red Barn Preserve and has been modernized inside. Scottish immigrant stonemasons were some of the earliest settlers in Northern New York following the War of 1812, and there are stone structures including houses and windmills and barn foundations all over the area.

05/25/2026

Tennessee Williams had named University of the South as the sole beneficiary of his literary estate upon the death of his sister, Rose. Other items in his estate had somehow made their way to Sewanee, including Williams’s patio furniture, his breakfast plates, his toaster, which still works (don’t ask), and, of course, the statuette I chanced upon in our archives. (Humanities)

HUMANITIES: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities Feature Property of Tennessee Williams What a souvenir statue tells us about his writing. Christopher McDonough HUMANITIES, September/October 2011, Volume 32, Number 5 Photo caption A bronze replica of a celebrated statuette that....

05/21/2026

We wouldn't get these everyday objects, but someone obviously saw the beauty in them. Ian spotted them in an antiques shop near Boston. https://youtube.com/shorts/s2y3lvdPjIw?feature=share

05/20/2026

New flyers emphasize our New England roots. I do all the design in

05/19/2026

The 1904 General Slocum steamboat disaster, largely forgotten today, greatly impacted the German-American community in New York City centered in Kleindeutschland (“Little Germany”), the neighborhood called the East Village today. https://en.geneanet.org/genealogyblog/post/2025/06/the-general-slocum-memorial-ceremony-in-1905

05/17/2026

Genealogists live for brick wall breakthroughs of vexing research questions. The family who appears in the 1880 census for the first time fully formed, without any previous evidence of existence. The 3G grandmother whose maiden name remains unknown despite years of research. The Revolutionary War-era soldier whose service at the Battle of Trenton is recorded, but whose paper trail goes cold after 1781.

What are your brick wall mysteries you are trying to solve?

05/15/2026

"According to family sources, not only is Sundling not familiar with his family’s heritage and history, but the 29-year-old also appears more emotionally attached to the fictional characters in his comic books than to many of his blood relatives." (The Onion)

LA CROSSE, WI—Returning to his hometown to attend a cousin’s wedding Saturday, Josh Sundling, 29, reportedly demonstrated on numerous occasions a vast, far more intricate understanding of the fictional Marvel Comics Universe than of his own family’s genealogy.