131 years and 6 months after New Bedford's high school class of 1890 held their graduation exercises, photos of 47 members of the group appeared in New Bedford's South Coast Today | Standard Times.

Life

A blog post about every 1 1/2 years, that seems about right

When the pandemic began, it felt like we should write about it, but I didn't enjoy it and, let's face it, the whole world was writing about it. By May 2020, I wanted to escape the pandemic, not rehash it over and over. So, I did other things...

Genealogy

What would our ancestors say?

May 6 was our 56th day of isolation and, while most people’s quarantine time is slightly less, people have had it with isolating. Gone are the #stayathome pleas of the […]

April 2020

Spring arrived

Spring has arrived. The flowers are blooming and the birds are chirping. The fishing boats are once again heading out each day and the huge row of lobster traps that […]

Genealogy

Normalizing by doing what is normal

The last week flew by primarily because I got back to doing what I did the majority of the time before the pandemic started. Sure, we didn’t go to any […]

cool adventures

Genealogy, ephemera, photography

South Carolina Genealogy Library and Resources

Institutions, Societies, and Government Websites

Maps

Manuscripts

Additional websites

Record Sets-State Level

Virtual Libraries

Newspapers

What will happen to all of our genealogy blogs and websites?

Using newspaper collections in genealogy research

Ringing in 2022 with Genealogists on Twitter

1890 New Bedford photo album featured in South Coast Today | Standard-Times

A blog post about every 1 1/2 years, that seems about right

What would our ancestors say?

Spring arrived

Normalizing by doing what is normal