St Valentine’s Day 2023
Ready for some St Valentine's Day 2023 memes? With my Chicago DNA, I should be feeling the urge to visit N. Clark Street and line some innocent bystanders and mobsters up against a brick [...]
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Feb 2023
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Feb 2022
Vintage Valentines and Genealogy
Vintage Valentines and Genealogy are available in today's post. Courtesy of the Newberry Library, you can send a vintage Valentine to a genealogy friend. Or send one to that partner/spouse who waits dinner patiently [...]
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Feb 2019
The First Valentine and Some English Genealogy
Let's celebrate the first Valentine and some English genealogy in today's holiday post. A love letter from 1477 (above) contains the first known use of the word Valentine. In this 500+-year-old love letter, 17-year-old Margery [...]
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Feb 2011
Happy St. Valentine’s Day
Happy St. Valentine’s Day to my sweetie, the one who’s always up for a research trip, who tromps through cemeteries for me and my FindaGrave cohorts, who reads microfilm and runs a copier like [...]