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Memorial Day–How a Mass Shooting Affected Memorial Day in 1970 & the Fear of Being Forgotten

May 28, 2022 0

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…

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The Boldest Common Sense New Year’s Resolution Ever

January 1, 2022 0

What was America's Boldest New Year's Resolution? It was a matter of Common Sense.

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What Breaking News Literally Stopped the Presses on Jan. 1, 1777?

December 28, 2021 0

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…

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FDR’s Bill of Rights Passion after Pearl Harbor

December 7, 2021 0

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…

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Laying the Foundation for the National Holiday of Thanksgiving

November 17, 2021 0

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…

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How Did New England’s Thanksgiving Spread to Other States?

November 16, 2021 0

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…

Thanksgiving Headed South Articles

When Did Thanksgiving Head South?

November 15, 2021 0

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…

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Why did the First Independence Parade & Fireworks Take Place before July 4, 1776?

July 1, 2021 0

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…

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GenealogyBank.com Flag Day & How did Betsy Ross Become the First Flagmaker?

June 14, 2021 0

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…

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Remembering Those Who Died in the American Revolution, GenealogyBank.com

May 30, 2021 0

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…

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