from The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts), 22 March 1905, Wednesday, page 7  " BRIGHT LITTLE ARTISTS Give Marked Evidence of the...

GARDNER / GARDINER / GARNER   Very, very little is known of my 8 th great grandfather, James Gardner (about 1641 – 1684) who appears...

I have two RANDALL lines, that seem to be completely unrelated. In 2015 I wrote a Surname Saturday post on Richard Randall (1633 – 1713...

GARDNER, GARDINER, GARDENER The location of the ropewalks in Boston on an 1814 map This would be where the Public Garden is located ...

GARDNER I have two Gardner lineages, and they might be connected.  I don’t know because one is a brick wall I have been working on f...

Balch House, Beverly, Massachusetts, circa 1679 operated by the Beverly Historical Society BALCH I’m glad to be writing about John...

The Pope Chest, dated 1679 At the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts POPE The English origins of Joseph Pope, my 8 th ...

This tombstone was photographed at the Chebogue Cemetery, at Town Point, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia In memory Of Abigaile Heley Wife...

The Balch House, Beverly, Massachusetts Are you descended of Beverly’s 17 th century “Old Planters”?   Some of the first men to sett...

This mausoleum was photographed at the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  It is the Gardner family tomb, and Isabella Stewa...

Prince Whipple, an enslaved officer in the Continental Army, and 19 other enslaved men from New Hampshire drew up a petition in 1779. ...

Nutfield Genealogy has another (the fourth!) spin off!  My guest blogger John Tew has started his own blog called Filiopietism Prism.  You...

The newly re-opened Boston Tea Party Museum The Boston Tea Party took place on 16 December 1773, and was an act of violence and tre...