Irish genealogy research is very popular in the United States because so many of us have Irish ancestry. Here are some fantastic online resources for Irish genealogy to allow you to research your...
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Thomas Lynch, Jr.: The Signers of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Lynch, Jr is one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. While not a famous one, he nonetheless played an important role in American history, and his story is unique in many ways...
Philip Livingston: The Signers of the Declaration of Independence
Philip Livingston was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. While not one of the well-known ones, Philip was nonetheless a busy and industrious politician, merchant, and investor. A native of...
Francis Lewis: The Signers of the Declaration of Independence
A Welsh merchant named Francis Lewis is one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. While not one of the well-known signers, he nonetheless had quite an interesting life that included...
The Seminole Wars: A Brief History of the Settlement of Florida
The Seminole Wars played an important part in the American settlement of Florida.
Richard Henry Lee: The Signers of the Declaration of Independence
Richard Henry Lee is one of the better known Founding Fathers of the United States. He is the one who first put forth the motion to official declare independence from Great Britain at the Second...
Family Cobbler Recipes May Hold Clues to Your Roots: GeneFoods #7
Does your family have a cobbler recipe that has been passed on for generations? That recipe might be able to show you something about your family’s history.
The Twenty-Sixth Amendment: The Constitutional Amendments
The Twenty-Sixth Amendment to the US Constitution changed the legal voting age in the United States from twenty-one to eighteen. The reason for this was the military draft in WWII and Vietnam that...
Florida: American Folklore, Part 9
Florida is a land of many wonders, and a whole host of weird things you won’t find anywhere else in the nation. With a long history of European exploration going back to the 1500’s, there has been...
Thomas Jefferson: The Signers of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson is one of the best-known signers of the Declaration of Independence. Not only did he write it, but he was also an ambassador to France and the third US President after the American...
The Fourth Amendment: The Bill of Rights
The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution in the Bill of Rights is the one that protects private citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures of their private property by the government. It...
Samuel Huntington: The Signers of the Declaration of Independence
Samuel Huntington was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Like so many other signers, his career encompassed a lot more than that one important historical event. Samuel had a thriving legal...
Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison: America’s First Ladies #9
Though she was only First Lady for a month, and never actually went to D.C. during her husband’s brief presidency, Anna Symmes, the wife of ninth U.S. President William Henry Harrison, was an...
What is Your Genealogy Vision?
Do you have a theme in mind for your genealogy research this year? What is a theme for genealogy research, anyway? Here is what you need to know about themes for genealogy research, and why they are...
Stephen Hopkins: The Signers of the Declaration of Independence
Stephen Hopkins is considered the greatest statesman in the history of Rhode Island. By the time he went to the Second Continental Congress and signed the Declaration of Independence, he was already...