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Edgar Allan Poe

Happy Birthday to Edgar Allan Poe, born January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts to actor parents.[1] I just read The Tell-Tale Heart to...

Flag Day

I am a day late, as Flag Day was yesterday, June 14, but I wanted to share some information about the American Flag. The first official...

Day of Atonement

Happy Yom Kippur, sorry I that did not get this posted by sundown yesterday. #dayofatonement #yomkippur #awesofinheritance...

Traditions

What is family? What is heritage? What is culture? These are some of the things we may seek and are sometimes lucky enough to find when...

The History of ASL

In 1817, Thomas Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the Hartford Asylum for the Education and Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb.[1] It...

On This Day

My great-grandfather, James Addison Austin was born today, May 7th, in 1896 in Rockport, Ohio County, Kentucky. He was the son of Addison...

Planning Ahead

I know that in genealogy we are always planning, planning our research question, our research, for the repository; but as genealogists...

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