Thomas and Margaret (Fryer) Gardner of Salem, MA

No doubt, things looked dire 102 years ago when the pandemic ( Spanish flu ) was getting started. We know that things settled down, as the 3...

This starts with a Memorial Day twist but merely touches on the topic of some necessary work. Just like we look to the NEHGS as a focal ...

 A Memorial Day theme is apropos, again. Doing some research, we ran into another grave that disappeared. There have been many of these ove...

In logic, using a tree, it is easier to trace back from some node (leaf) to a basis node. And, in trees, the basis can move around. The inve...

Seven years ago, we had a post titled " Endless genealogies ." At the time, one motivation was the proliferation of sites dealing ...

Our last post took a brief look at the reviews that will be part of our work for the next few months. Part of this will be a look at the th...

Like spring cleaning, house arrest can offer time and means for the re-arranging that gets ignored in the rush of life as modern society all...