For Memorial Day 2022, I published two articles on GenealogyBank.com’s blog and a substack. 1. Pledging Allegiance in Alliance When searching through GenealogyBank.com’s database for…
What was America's Boldest New Year's Resolution? It was a matter of Common Sense.
Newspaper publisher Thomas Greene of New Haven, Connecticut, had already started printing his 1 January 1777 issue of the Connecticut Journal when he received an express letter…
While on a train headed to Warm Springs, Georgia, for a late Thanksgiving holiday on 29 November 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) called upon…
Today more than 35 million people can trace their genealogy to the Mayflower Pilgrims. I barely missed it. My ancestor William Hampton traveled on the Bona Nova in the…
How did New England’s Thanksgiving spread to other states? A look at some newspaper articles in GenealogyBank’s Historical Newspaper Archives shows us how it spread to one…
I have fond memories of frequently traveling from my home in Texas to my grandmother’s house in Arkansas for Thanksgiving during my childhood. We had…
For centuries Americans have celebrated Independence Day on July 4, as well they should. That was the day in 1776 when the Continental Congress issued…
Pennsylvania Evening Post (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), 30 August 1777, page 453 This article reported from the minutes of the Continental Congress, which did not mention Betsy…
As GenealogyBank.com reveals, on April 29, 1777, Philadelphia’s Dunlap’s Pennsylvania Packet published an account of the burial of a member of the military whose death…