May 13, 2022 Interesting Story About the Portland CT Quarries Members of my Ratcliffe family from Cheshire, England traveled to the US in the 1880s and worked at the Portland Quarries. In the 1880…
January 21, 2022 Gettysburg’s Lost Love Story: The Ill-Fated Romance of General John Reynolds and Kate Hewitt Release Date As some of you will recall, I did some research for Historian Jeff Harding awhile ago that resulted in some never before discovered details…
July 10, 2016 Harry Wallace Burnham and His Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day I love finding these interesting stories that help round out what can be very boring genealogy research. In my current project of double checking…
May 19, 2016 Richard Burnham – “Blown up at school house” I guess everyone has “Burnhams” on their mind lately. Just now the Historic Hartford Facebook Page just randomly posted a photo of this headstone…
May 18, 2016 How Many Thomas Burnhams Are There? Awhile ago I had written about the question of where Thomas Burnham of Windsor, CT was originally from. The original post was called “The…
