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Spotlight on a Texas Schoolteacher – Christine Carpenter
Southwestern University, 1929 Sou'wester Yearbook Cover This weekly series focuses on women who attended and graduated from three Texas religious, private colleges* in the 1920-1929 time period. The spotlight is on the small minority of women who developed teaching...
Focus on the Archives: Portal to Texas History
This weekly series provides a view into various archives and their importance for genealogical research. This week's selection is The Portal to Texas History (Portal). This system's design began in 2002 with a goal to grow into a long-term sustainable, digital gateway...
Spotlight on a Texas Schoolteacher – Martha Ersyl Battle
Southwestern University, Hiking Club, 1920
Focus on the Archives: Digital Public Library of America
This weekly series provides a view into various archives and their importance for genealogical research. This week's selection is the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). This digital endeavor started in April 2013 to act as an open, distributed national digital...
Heraldry, Clans, Coats of Arms and More!
Heraldry, "the practice of devising, blazoning, and granting armorial insignia and of tracing and recording genealogies"[1], is an exciting practice. Many people who have an ancestral heritage aligned to a clan community may be aware of their clan's crest or coat of...
How to use the FamilySearch Catalog for Online Research
A necessary tool for all genealogists, the FamilySearch Catalog describes over two million microfilm records and hundreds of thousands of books and maps. While it only contains descriptions of the records rather than the actual ones, it still proves to be an important...
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Image 1: Images. Photograph. Pulteney Bridge. 17 November 2019. Bath, Somerset, England, United Kingdom. Phyllis Zumwalt, photographer. Private collection. For more information: https://bath.co.uk/attractions/pulteney-bridge.