Daily Genealogist

“Over the course of several years, Keroack and two other members of the Connecticut Ancestry Society indexed Norwalk marriage and death records for the years 1848 until 1861, moving from old, bound and handwritten books to printed, alphabetized volumes the names of Norwalk's most famous and least famous families, and all those in between.”

“Sir Walter Scott not only dominated gift book lists on the eve of the Civil War but also dominated Southern literary taste throughout the conflict.”

Permanent Record. Entry 8: The Saddest Story in the Report Cards I Found—And How It Came to Have a Happy Ending.
The latest in Paul Lukas’s “Permanent Record” series, in which he researches the women listed in the Manhattan Trade School for Girls report cards. The first post in the series discusses how he saved these records from destruction, and why they captured his interest.