Doll-sized coffins "This wasn’t seen as morbid or disturbing. To the Victorians, death and grief were very much facts of life, and playtime was the chance to do a practice run before children endured the real thing." @MariteHart@SmithsonianMag https://t.co/0DoOrEJIvU
TheGenealogist has announced the launch of a collection of fully searchable copies of The Times, with 3,129 editions of the newspaper from the 1870s onwards available to researchers https://t.co/vjZwugXTiv #familyhistory
Nov 1, 6pm: Maine State Historian Earle Shettleworth, Jr., will present a compelling talk on five women artists who contributed significantly to Portland's 19th-century cultural life. FMI/register free on Zoom https://t.co/WqsT4lTxlL. Buy the book https://t.co/RTBVZfGZU5
If you are an expert local historian, we’re looking forward to hearing from you. Likewise if you’ve never given local history a go but you’re inspired to get started, we’d love to see what you find.
#20sStreets
📸: Ford Street East, Southport; ref. COPY 1/497
Maine Voices: A boomerang reconsiders what ‘from here’ means - Gift economies occur within stable clans and exchange economies characterize relationships among transient people. @CarleneByron @PresHerald #Genealogy
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In October 1836, Marshall declared his intention to marry Sarah Breck (daughter of Cap. Jos. Breck) of Littleton, Mass. On Oct 25, the two were united by William H White.
Sometime between graduating and marrying, Marshall had moved from Waltham to #RichmondMaine. #OnePlaceStudy
Sometimes a burial register can give great information. Here is the burial in #Wylye, #Wiltshire of Thomas Small, the brother of my ancestor. He was buried on 5th May 1794 aged 60 years and 10 months. The names of both his parents are recorded. #familyhistory#genealogy#ancestry
Although not all of our ancestors will have made a will, a surprising number of men and women did. Simon Wills shares his advice on how to locate these precious sources of family history. #familyhistory https://t.co/nJ96x3a8Iy
Twitter says that my third anniversary was a couple days ago. But today is the 80th anniversary of my grandparents, Chester White and Alice Wiggins. Twitter sent me a fancy graphic for the wrong event, I think.
Happy anniversary, Grandfather & Grandmother!
#MyTwitterAnniversary