Summer’s coming! Newspapers often used to mention big family get-togethers and reunions – most often held when the weather was…
L’Mander Lewis (b. Genessee County, New York, 20 May 1803,[1] d. Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana, 3 September 1880[2]) was my…
Virginia might be one of the most difficult states to identify the 1850 census counties. And then to get any…
I have just added a page to the blog with an analysis of the Lewis bearers in the 1850 US…
Jerry Lewis, Master of the Congressional Earmark, Dies at 86
A powerful legislator, he became chairman of the House Appropriations Committee in 2005 but faced scrutiny from the Justice Department for his ties to a lobbyist.
From Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia Meriwether Lewis (August 18, 1774 – October 11, 1809) was an American explorer, soldier, politician, and…
A book tracing a Lewis mother As Neil Armstrong first-footed the moon, Irene Lewis Ward and her husband Bob took their first…
Where did they come from? I’m researching the Lewises who appear in the 1851 census in Liverpool, Lancashire or nearby…
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As a way of introducing this team effort, this is how we have started the first phase. We decided to…