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Learning to build a dry stone wall ... and the ...
Last fall, I went to Vermont to join a workshop on dry stone walling hosted by The Stone Trust in Dummerston, Vermont. Dry stone walls are built without any mortar....
Learning to build a dry stone wall ... and the ...
Last fall, I went to Vermont to join a workshop on dry stone walling hosted by The Stone Trust in Dummerston, Vermont. Dry stone walls are built without any mortar....
History Mystery #9 solution: Pounce Pot
For our latest History Mystery, object #9 - made of pewter more than 200 years ago - received a lot of responses. More than half got it right. But others...
History Mystery #9 solution: Pounce Pot
For our latest History Mystery, object #9 - made of pewter more than 200 years ago - received a lot of responses. More than half got it right. But others...
History Mystery #9: An elongated pewter object ...
EasyGenie's History Mystery #9 has an unusual shape and purpose. It would have been common in places where official business was conducted, as well as some households. This one likely...
History Mystery #9: An elongated pewter object ...
EasyGenie's History Mystery #9 has an unusual shape and purpose. It would have been common in places where official business was conducted, as well as some households. This one likely...
What I found in the MyHeritage free military re...
In honor of Memorial Day this weekend, MyHeritage is opening up its military records to non-subscribers for free (note: registration required). While not as extensive as other online records repositories...
What I found in the MyHeritage free military re...
In honor of Memorial Day this weekend, MyHeritage is opening up its military records to non-subscribers for free (note: registration required). While not as extensive as other online records repositories...
When Finding Your Roots helped 3 non-celebritie...
Viewers of Finding Your Roots have long wished for a chance to have host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. research their own genealogy brick walls. Well, Gates and PBS listened, and...
When Finding Your Roots helped 3 non-celebritie...
Viewers of Finding Your Roots have long wished for a chance to have host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. research their own genealogy brick walls. Well, Gates and PBS listened, and...
Another incident of Ancestry "data theft" scrap...
Ancestry has once again been caught scraping data from a local genealogy society’s website without permission, according to a post dated May 3 on the Scottish Genes blog. I will...
Another incident of Ancestry "data theft" scrap...
Ancestry has once again been caught scraping data from a local genealogy society’s website without permission, according to a post dated May 3 on the Scottish Genes blog. I will...