Click here to see the paperback version of Alabama Footprints Confrontation is on sale for $5.49 (List price $12.97) just in time for Christmas…
Searching through records in dark attics and basements and wandering through old cemeteries for a trace of an elusive ancestor can be challenging. A…
{These health tips from the Perfect Woman 1903 by K. T. Boland have changed over the years. } EARLY TO BED AND EARLY TO RISE Early…
I always enjoy the beautiful dogwoods, azaleas, and daffodils in my yard in the spring, but worry each year that we might have a “blackberry winter,"…
TWAS THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS Twas the day after Christmas, and all through the house, Every creature was hurting -- even the mouse. The…
A Legal Gift If a man would, according to law, give to another an orange, instead of saying, "I give you this orange "which one…
THINGS I LEARNED WITH AGE Learned to pick my battles, - “Will this matter one year from now? How about one month: One week? One…
THE TRUTH ABOUT SANTA'S REINDEER IS REVEALED According to the Alaskan Department of Fish and game, Both male and female reindeer grow antlers…
The following are actual copies of correspondence received by the Family History Department. I have a hard time finding myself in London. If I were…
Here lies one Box within another; The one of wood Was very good; We cannot say so much for t'other. --------- Here lies the…
Some funny, clean stories stand the test of time like these: A little girl wanted to say that she had a fan, but had…
Anyone who has lived in the south knows about chigger bites. Here are some home remedies from a 1930's cookbook. Rub chigger bites with…
A prominent physician of Baltimore tells of an amusing experience of the early days of his practice when he was residing in a small…
FUNNY EPITAPHS When the great judgement day arrives and Joshua Fenton Newton does not emerge from this hole, you will know that someone made…
Household hints from the past: By dipping a new broom in hot salt water before using, will toughen the bristles and make it last…
It seems like such a short time ago when...... A computer was something on TV from a science fiction show of note.... A window was…
Graves side by side in an old cemetery in the west. This must have been quite a shoot-out! “Thomas Hart Killed by Frank Teague”…
While transcribing records from old newspapers, I frequently run across some great gems of wisdom and humor like below: From an 1908 newspaper Some…
Funny gravestones: Epitaph of a noted politician: "Here reader, turn your weeping eyes, My fate a useful moral teaches; The hole in which my…
A GEORGIA WEDDING A Georgia paper got a wedding notice and advertisement of auction sale mixed, and this is the way it appeared in…
From an 1881 newspaper: Rules for Governing children: Never give in to disobedience, and never threaten what you are not prepared to carry out.…
SCROLL DOWN TO CONTINUE . . . The opinions now held by physicians that “raw cow's milk is better for children than boiled” is…
SCROLL DOWN TO READ STORY From the perfect Woman 1903 by K. T. Boland EARLY TO BED AND EARLY TO RISE Early rising cannot…
Some Funny Tombstones - Grave marker in Covington, Virginia "I made a lot of deals in my lifetime ... But I sure went in…
Some Genealogy Humor I'd rather be looking for dead people than have them looking for me! I'm searching for myself; Have you seen me?…
Some Family tree humor.... I looked at my family tree...there were two dogs using it. I'd rather be looking for dead people than have them…
Two men were walking home after a party and decided to take a shortcut through the cemetery just for laughs. Right in the middle of the…
Times were hard after the Civil War, but people still kept their sense of humor. Here are some humorous and ridiculous tips for life…
Sometimes it is funny seeing life through the eyes of a child. A little boy opened the big and old family Bible with fascination,…
Patron+ Member story The following is from a 1903 book The Perfect Woman, on how to avoid wrinkles on your face. I wished it…
Here are some suggestions of how to keep well from an 1880's cookbook on keeping well. Some of these could apply today. Don't sleep…
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