One of the trends in my ancestry is the curious one whereby, when given the choice between staying in a locale or moving on, my nineteenth-century forebears often remained behind as other..
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For the last few months I have been working with Judi Garner of the Jewish Heritage Center, here at NEHGS, on an exhibit of twentieth-century Jewish photographers and their subjects, and we are finally finished. The photos are framed and hung; the labels have been..
Continue reading[Author’s note: This post concludes the series of excerpts from the Regina Shober Gray diary which began here.]
[Author’s note: This series of excerpts from the Regina Shober Gray diary began here.]
[Author’s note: This series of excerpts from the Regina Shober Gray diary began here.]
[Author’s note: This series of excerpts from the Regina Shober Gray diary began here.]
[Author’s note: This series of excerpts from the Regina Shober Gray diary began here.]
While researching the provenance of a family portrait, I recently revisited the research problem posed by my ancestress Martha (____) (Naden) Mortier, an Englishwoman who came to New York before the American Revolution with her second..
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[Author’s note: This series of excerpts from the Regina Shober Gray diary began here.]
For those of us wiling away the summer in offices in the United States, yearning for a glimpse of blue water, here is a living portrait of a Swiss summer..
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