Category: Memory Lane

Remember the Sears Catalog? It’s on Ancestry.com

Back in “the day,” American consumers window-shopped by mail with the Sears catalog. From 1888-1993, the Sears catalog...

Have you ever wondered about the first photograph ever taken? The first time human technology captured a passing...

We genealogists often accumulate a lot of family "stuff:" original documents, old photographs and heirlooms. Though...

Exactly one hundred years ago on April 22, a time capsule was buried in the basement of the First English Lutheran...