1900 Census Rejected Marriage for Three-Year-Olds
A surprising fact about the tallying of the twelfth federal census. “When the first returns from the census enumerators are in, the great work of […]
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The Preacher was Dying to Marry Them
On 2 June 1870, a sixty-one-year-old Methodist minister named Samuel Anthony was enumerated on the rolls of the federal census that year as a resident […]
Fashion Icons on Finding Your Roots
RuPaul Charles and Diane von Furstenberg are guests on Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Photos: Courtesy of McGee Media) “All of this […]
A Child Bride in Tennessee
Charlie Johns and Eunice Winstead reenact their roadside wedding ceremony with Rev. Wallace LambPhoto: The Knoxville Journal, 16 February 1937 In 1940, census enumerator Neal […]
An Elusive English Epitaph
From Reverend Beaver H. Blacker’s Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, Vol. II (London, 1884), p. 6, is the story of a curious tombstone inscription in Moreton-in-Marsh churchyard. […]