I've had a War Ration Book in my collection awaiting return for quite some time. The Ration Book , issued during the final phases of...

Tucked into the folds of a century of history, a 1924 high school diploma  from Wyomissing High School  has emerged—weathered by time,...

A piece of Tennessee’s educational past recently surfaced: a 1914 Certificate of Promotion  from Buffalo School No. 16, District No. 9 in...

We recently found a piece of New England history: a beautifully preserved 1931 Certificate of Promotion to High School , awarded to...

Tucked inside a timeworn photo album are a handful of unmarked black-and-white photographs—each one quietly holding onto a story. There...

A Rare Find: A Postcard Album from the Early 1900s Every so often, we come across something truly special—an unexpected window into the...

Genealogy often leads to unexpected discoveries, and that’s exactly what happened when I came across an old photograph from 1876 of...

Margaret Farris Farr was a woman of about 32 years old when the Chickamauga Dam was being built to control flooding in Harrison County,...

When I acquired two mortgage documents from 1900 and 1901, I had no idea what a Chattel Mortgage was. Naturally, I had to do some...

Let me start this post by saying this is the largest collection of personal artifacts I've acquired and I'm rather sure I won't find...

Old wills make for interesting reading. You can learn a lot about a family in a few pages. Who's in favor, who's not, and sometimes the...

Anytime a box full of photos comes up at auction, I admit that I can't resist. Especially when they are piled up and I have no idea...

Old photo albums are beautiful in their own right but, when full of photos, they become a true treasure. Most of the time, there are only...

Usually, I only need a bit of information to find enough information to identify the person and or family in artifacts. This one has me...

One of my favorite artifacts to discover are family photo albums. Most likely, it's because a photo album of my own family started my...

Dr. Aaron McDuffie Moore was a man who made an impact on his community. Born: 6 Sep 1863 in North Carolina Died: 29 Apr 1923 in Durham,...

When I first came across this photo, I didn’t think I’d uncover much about it. But, to my surprise, diving into the history of the J....

Check out the article about our work and this trunk's journey in the the Tennessean: The trunk told a tale of Hollywood scandal. Could a...

A Gentleman by Nature, Despite His Humble Beginnings. This is how Theophilus Brown (T.B.) Larimore was described in a printed booklet...

Just when I thought I had hit a brick wall with finding information on this original land deed from 1878, I noticed the front of the...

There is something about antique marriage certificates that speaks to me. Perhaps its because they are so beautifully designed or perhaps...

A bit of my own family history . . . It's common to hit a brickwall when looking for ancestors. In researching my maternal ancestors,...

Frank Lake Weller was born on 22 Nov 1852 in Holley, New York and it seems he raised his family and spent his entire life in the area. He...

The book from Ernst Rudolph Vogt's funeral service makes it clear; he was a respected member of his Texan community. The book is filled...