Am I at a party that's turned into a wake? Recently I've heard about blogging's demise ("Facebook and Twitter have taken o...

Portaferry, Northern Ireland In the 1800s all of Ireland was part of Great Britain. English barons owned the land and allowed Irish tenant f...

When my great-grandpa Anthony Colby arrived in Salem, Massachussetts on April 8, 1630, nobody stamped his passport. He was undocumented. Did...

This week we're in Vienna, Austria doing some research for my novel, but being a historian is not all Schnitzel mit Nudeln. Here's t...

Big anniversary. (Click for more) Cousins Club Newsletter (Click for more) Planning a trip! (Click for more) More to come . . .

The cottage was of ancient stone, with thick lichen on its roof slates. Nobody answered our knock, so we wandered around the back by the str...

I'm engrossed. I'm in the middle of a book called The Forgotten Garden , by Kate Morton. The heroine, Nell, was only four years old ...

I married a detective. We're always looking for dead buildings,and the story of how they got that way. The cases are mysterious and th...

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Anne Frank, a happy 13-year-old girl. Hi Heroes, I want to tell you about one of my other heroes. Anne Frank lived with her family in Amster...