Happy Halloween from Nutfield Genealogy! This blog post will send you on a spooky scavenger hunt from Crawford Notch to the surrounding towns searching for a family burial spot. Can you find it? This is a great hunt for your next leaf peeping trip to the White Mountains, or any time of the year. #genealogy #cemeteries #localhistory #NewHampshire #NewEngland https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2025/10/this-story-will-give-you-willeys.html

Happy Halloween from Nutfield Genealogy. The story of the Willey family perishing in a great landslide in Crawford Notch in 1826 is one of the greatest ghost stories told in New Hampshire. It's a true story, which makes it even spookier! But where was the Willey family buried? https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2025/10/this-story-will-give-you-willeys.html

How common are step sibling marriages in your family tree? #genealogy #familyhistory Read this blog post "He married his step sister?" https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/02/he-married-his-step-sister.html

History moment for today…

40% of SNAP recipients are kids, 18% are elderly, 11% are disabled and of the rest, ~70% already have jobs. So unless your company’s hiring underage Interns, grandma and her walker, or knows how to fit more hours in a day, maybe cool it with the “just get a job” comments.

Clint Smith @theatlantic is doing more than almost any popular writer to ensure that the right questions are asked about America’s past and how it is interpreted (and by whom).

He sees to the heart of the matter.

“The Trump administration’s attempt to reshape what is taught in museums and classrooms is fundamentally an attempt to obscure the relationship between the past and the present.”

#history #histodons

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/11/colonial-williamsburg-historical-accuracy/684330/?gift=oEEh75L2AatCMMthY3HEk5RYPHuTOgMdiD2tEPkoi3M&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Are you planning to come to Manchester, New Hampshire for the New England Regional Genealogy Conference next week? If so, please brush up on your Yankee pronunciation. I wrote this blog post about 12 years ago for another NERGC conference, and I heard that it came in very handy for those who needed to understand the locals. Or ask for the "basement" or the "bubbler". https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/04/new-hampshire-pronunciation.html

This is a very strange artifact from the past. Have you ever seen a rocking cradle for adults? Do you know the story? https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/03/from-cradle-to-cradle.html

History moment for today...
(thanks to the National Park Service Lego Vignettes at Facebook)

I am Canadian, descended from the people who set fire to the building that, afterwards, would be known as the White House.

My knowledge of American history is cursory at best beyond that. It hasn't exactly been of interest to me (sorry Americans, we really don't learn much about it up here).

I am absolutely appalled and horrified at the destruction that happened this week.

I don't even know what to hope for at this point, except maybe for there to be enough documentation to reconstruct it again as best as possible at some point in the future.

It's Weathervane Wednesday! Today's weathervane was photographed near the beach in Santander, Spain. https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-weathervane-in-santander-spain.html

@Meyerweb Send your thoughts on the demolition of the historic East Wing to this webpage. Share this link with everyone you know. https://www.whitehousehistory.org/contact?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR56ogYhrtW8AwHXDpfBNLuVIknHTfvKCNM1IO6CW9SsobizDVWjuM2qFMLrng_aem_GJf74bpkZVMPw2DoFFKDlg

A little beauty from this morning. #rowing #HeadOfTheCharles #CambridgeMA

The most important thing about releasing George Santos from jail today is that the Epstein files still have not been released…

"Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy or frightened, when we fail to speak up and speak out, we strike a blow against freedom, decency and justice." Robert F. Kennedy (the first one)

@OprahDaily @oprahdaily-com-OprahDaily I agree! My neighbor started a neighborhood Mom's group when I had a 12 month old and she had a newborn. We had 8 to 12 women show up every week. We laughed, cried together, grew together until the kids were in middle school and several families moved away. We helped build a neighborhood playground, holiday parties, and collected toys for the less fortunate. I'm still friends with most of them. My toddler is now 38 years old!

The Secret to Surviving Early Motherhood Isn’t a Healthy Marriage—It’s Healthy Friendships
https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/books/a68155990/friendship-early-motherhood/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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@servelan Next week it will be fluoride toothpaste

It’s Weathervane Wednesday! This is a nice one from New London, New Hampshire https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2024/08/a-modified-model-t-weathervane-new.html

@gbhnews Jane Goodall