A personal newsletter that appears to explore family heritage and ancestry, including ties to Gee's Bend and a fifth-generation lineage. The excerpts are very brief, so readers can expect first-person reflections on legacy and community history.
Website: https://the-legacy-shelf.ghost.io/
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 genealogy and history newsletter that uses family research on upstate New York tenant farmers and westward migration as a lens for questioning settler-centred historical framing. Each issue pairs archival quotes with the author's critical reading of how official sources describe land, population and who counts.
Local history essays about Woodbridge and Bethany, Connecticut, drawing on town records, family accounts and published local histories. Issues connect current events such as anniversaries, storms and elections to the area's past.
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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