This week I was organizing some boxes in the basement when I came across my grandparents' wedding album. I had seen photos of their wedding day many times, but I hadn't seen the album in years and since I've been longing to find a picture of my great-grandmother, Mary (Harvey) Reese Gaul when she was young, I thought I'd check to see if there were any photos of her in there. I assumed I had seen all these pictures before and it was a long shot, so imagine my surprise when I c

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This weekend I was going through a box of old papers and photos that belonged to my mother, going down memory lane with the family. I always say it's important to take a lot of pictures, so we don't forget, but now in my fifties, I believe it's equally as important to label the pictures with dates, places, and people because even though we have photos, there are so many pictures of people and places I don't recognize and with all our pictures being digital now, I wonder how m

John Dickinson was my 3rd great-grandfather, who came to America from Sheffield, England. He brought two sons, William Henry Dickinson...

After reviewing the baptisms of children of John Dickinson of Middlewood, we can see that John must have married sometime before 1763,...

After finding what I believe to be the record of my 5th great-grandfather, William Dickinson's 1768 baptism, I set out to find other...