(The article below I originally wrote for Featherstone Findings many years ago while doing family genealogy research). In a small secluded vale, near the confluence of the Hartley Burn and South Tyne rivers. against the backdrop of the heath moor lands of Northern England, sits the eventual destination of all who find themselves tracing the family […]

A little over 45 years ago, 1971 to be exact, the 26th amendment to the Constitution was passed. I was in high school at the time, and everyone in school seemed to be talking about it with anticipation and excitement. It was a small amendment (as amendments go), a single sentence, just 36 words. Contrary […]