A family history blog in which the author, Jim Heid, uses his parents' archived photos, playbills and documents to reconstruct their early lives, from his father's 1920s San Francisco light-opera career to his mother's childhood in a Pennsylvania coal town. Each post pairs close reading of a physical artifact with reflective, personal storytelling about memory and loss.
Website: https://jimheid.ghost.io/
A personal history newsletter tracing the 1950s handball tours of Maccabi Rehovot to the Netherlands and the lives of the Dutch Jewish families and communities they met. It combines archival testimony, diary excerpts and genealogical research.
A genealogy blog tracing the descendants of Edward Colver through Rev. Jabez Collver, with each post reconstructing family lines from census, county history and vital records. Readers get narrative-driven research on migration, maritime and frontier ancestors, including corrections to long-repeated family myths.
A personal journal from a documentary maker and death doula on Bainbridge Island, reflecting on death, memory and legacy through essays like the Death Masks of the 21st Century series. Readers get intimate, reflective writing about mortality, family stories and preserving a life's impression.
A Pennsylvania genealogy resource with guides to vital records, courthouses, archives, probate, land, military and immigration records across all 67 counties. Recent issues use anniversary years (1876, 1926, 1976) as hooks to show which records survive and how to research ancestors in each period.
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