Nancy Hendrickson's Ancestor News
The GenWed site has free Texas Marriage Records for many Texas counties. From this Texas page, click on the name of the Texas county of interest. In this case, I clicked on Limestone County. On the next page, to get to the free records, you’ll need to scroll down past all of the commercial search [...]
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I have to admit it – I’m not one of the world’s most craft-savvy people. But as klutzy as I am, I do have an interest in scrapbooking. And, like most people who are new to the hobby, I get hung-up with the “where do I begin” syndrome.
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New Hampshire, one of the original 13 colonies, was settled around 1632, when two London fish merchants began a fishing colony. New Hampshire became a ”royal province” in 1679, and continued until 1698 when it came under the jurisdiction of Massachusetts. Men from the colony participated in the Battle of Bunker Hill, and in 1776 the Declaration [...]
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Traditional societies often have informal customs about what people (especially women) are allowed to wear. But some go further and actually pass laws about it. This is what happened in many parts of pre-industrial Europe. German states, for example, passed at least 1,350 laws regulating clothing between 1244 and 1816. You might think such laws [...]
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