Celebrating both National Pet Week and Genealogy

Posted on 10 May, 2013 by Janice Brown

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National Pet Week is celebrated from May 5-11, 2013.  During our lifetimes pets are our beloved companions, and should be included in our family tree gallery. Here are a sampling of pets from my family.

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Hoping for that Aha Moment in Genealogy

Posted on 6 May, 2013 by Janice Brown

Genealogy and history are naturally connected.  History is made up of a series of events on a time line.  Events consist of activities of people in a specific location, on a certain date. In order to be engaging, a well-created genealogy needs to relate a story, weaving all of the above into a an interesting view of life. How exactly do we accomplish this? Continue reading →

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New Hampshire Missing Places: The Old Man of the Mountain

Posted on 30 April, 2013 by Janice Brown
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Old Man of the Mountain “In Memoriam” from the 2003 Franconia NH Annual Report

 

“He the eldest son of Time, has not changed in form or place since the floods retired.  Yet even he shall crumble away. But when the man of granite rock is dissolved, the men of granite soul shall stand “unhurt amid the war of elements, the wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds.”[1] Continue reading →

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New Hampshire’s Fishing, Fisheries and Firsts

Posted on 25 April, 2013 by Janice Brown

Sketch of an alewife from book: Alewife and Blueback Herring, by by Earl L. Bozeman, Jr. and Michael Bozeman, Earl L.; Georgia Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Unit

“Where, in many straggling group,
 Gnarled and crooked willows
By a chaffing streamlet stoop,
And their yellow branches droop,
 Tow’rd its tiny billows;
Near the banks are little whirls,–
 Whirles of fretted water,–
And beneath those rings of pearls
 Trout delicious caught are.” [1]
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New Hampshire Back Stairs: Servants to the Carpenter, Manning, Hoyt, Slayton, Campbell and Jenks Families in 20th Century Manchester

Posted on 17 April, 2013 by Janice Brown

They opened the door to greet visitors. They cooked, served and cleaned up after the daily meals. They tidied the rooms and

Emma (Ryan) Fish and Nellie Ryan in servant's uniforms, circa 1920; Manchester NH

Emma (Ryan) Fish and Nellie Ryan in servant’s uniforms, circa 1920; Manchester NH

changed the bed linens. They washed and ironed the family’s clothing. They provided transportation first in horse driven surreys and later in the earliest automobiles in New Hampshire. They moved quietly,  and spoke in hushed tones. Although essential to the household, they were not family. They were invisible hands that always entered and left by the back door, not the front.    They were maids, cooks, butlers, gardeners, and chauffeurs–hired servants of Manchester’s affluent. Continue reading →

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