Ancestry.com: Why Did A Good Idea Go the Way of the Flash Mob?

Posted on 27 June, 2013 by Janice Brown

It’s close to midnight
Some sap is dripping from my family tree
Under computer screen light
You see search results that make you want to flee
You try to shriek
But a zillion family hits just blur your vision
You scroll through pages you don’t need
As the NEW search engine stares you in the eyes
You’re keyword-ized.

‘Cause this is filler
Filler all right
And only G2G can save you
From the hits about to spike
You know its filler
Filler all right
You’re wishing hard for your old search engine
Inside a filler
Filler tonight. Yeah!

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Immigrant to New Hampshire: Cora Alvina Parnell (1868-1913)

Posted on 25 June, 2013 by Janice Brown

Cora ParnellThe lovely face of Cora Alvina Parnell stared back at me from the computer screen. She was probably not a relative, I thought, at least based on her surname.  But for whatever reason, I clicked “buy” and spontaneously purchased her photograph. Continue reading →

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A Manchester, New Hampshire Small Grocery: Morency’s Market & the Morency Family

Posted on 20 June, 2013 by Janice Brown
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Joseph Morency, proprietor of Morency’s Market in Manchester NH, circa 1950. Photograph Courtesy of Marc Morency, his grandson, and used with his permission.

Over the past two hundred plus years, these shops have been called by many names: grocer, grocery & provision store, fruit & grocery, grocery company, market, retail store, corner store, convenience store. The corner grocery store has been an essential part of most New Hampshire communities. Continue reading →

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New Hampshire’s Fathers’ Day History

Posted on 16 June, 2013 by Janice Brown

The celebration of Fathers’ Day in New Hampshire is over 100 years old, unofficially that is.  The anniversary date hinges really on which year you consider as the advent of Fathers’ Day in our state.  A newspaper article acknowledged the day as early as 1910.

Dodd Fathers Day

Newspaper Article from: Portsmouth Herald, August 5, 1910, page 4

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New Hampshire’s Canterbury Shakers: Elderess Bertha Lindsay (1897-1990) and Gertrude Soule (1894-1988)

Posted on 2 June, 2013 by Janice Brown

Eldress Bertha Lindsay, and Gertrude Soule were not the last of New Hampshire’s Shaker Colony–Ethel Hudson was the last when she died in 1992.  At Christmas-time in 1978 when the radiant faces of Bertha and Gertrude were captured for this newspaper photograph they were two of nine Shaker members still remaining.  Their village in Canterbury once had 400 men, women and children. Continue reading →

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