President’s Message, February 2018
Greetings, Hopefully, you have been able to spend quality time working on projects. It is a better bug to have the van the flu that is going around. These are some of the symptoms of the genealogy bug… planning your vacation around visits to libraries, archives, historical societies, town offices, cemeteries, courthouses, and the registry of […]
This Old Tree, February 2018
Name Changes over Time And How to Find Them Most people seek to find who their first known ancestors in North America are and where they came from back in the old country. For some people, that is all they really care about. I, myself, enjoy finding who was the first person in each of […]
Big Wig
As incredible as it sounds, men and women took baths only twice a year (May and October). Women kept their hair covered, while men shaved their heads (because of lice and bugs) and wore wigs. Wealthy men could afford good wigs made from wool. They couldn’t wash the wigs, so to clean them they would […]