Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of an epidemic in Egypt so terrible that one ancient writer believed the world was coming to an ...

The Coffin Plate of William Burke This simple coffin plate is for William Burke who died at the young age of 12 in the year 1898. Its no...

The Oldest Pants in the World A team of scientists has recently discovered the worlds oldest pants in some ancient tombs in northwest Ch...

WW1 For 84 years, Private William Phillips was missing, lying underneath another man's headstone. ...

Their remains sat, unmarked, in shallow graves at the Old City Cemetery in Lynchburg, Va., for decades. Now, some 150 years after the C...

In what could have been a very upsetting event, video captured Thursday a huge mudslide at Western Cemetery in Baltimore. The video shows se...

A Roman Lead Pipe Some historians argue that lead poisoning plagued the Roman elite with diseases such as gout, and may even have has...

Emanuel C Beam This coffin plate for Emanuel C Beam is without a date but we can tell from the style of plate and the frame it is displa...

Is he in your family tree? Neanderthals and modern humans, tens of thousands of years ago, had sex with each other in Europe and Asia....

Bones unearthed by landscape gardeners laying a driveway at a house in Purley have been hailed as a significant archaeological discovery...

Olive Tree Genealogy blog has a Genealogy Writing Challenge. It's 52 weeks of writing your own memoirs.  Lorine will be posting a week...

I'm writing about my Uncle Bill Massey as part of Amy Crow's Challenge: 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks .   Bill Massey in WW2 Eve...

  Black Death Yet another clutch of ancient skeletons has been uncovered during excavations for the Crossrail transport project in c...

Elizabeth Scafe Coffin Plate Elizabeth Scafe DIED June 2 1878 Aged 23 Years For more Coffin Plates go to Ancestors At Rest ...

Olive Tree Genealogy blog has a Genealogy Writing Challenge. It's 52 weeks of writing your own memoirs.  Lorine will be posting a week...

March 1919. Pueblo Chieftan My cousin 3 times removed was Oscar Massey. He was born in Colorado in 1893. While researching him (because...

Florence A Moise Coffin Plate Florence A Moise DIED Feb 22nd 1877 Aged 34 Years For More Coffin Plates Try Ancestors Ar Rest...

Olive Tree Genealogy blog has a Genealogy Writing Challenge. It's 52 weeks of writing your own memoirs.  Lorine will be posting a week...

Heart Island Most New Yorkers don't even know it exists. But a million forgotten souls are buried in mass graves dug by convicts ...

  To remember the commencement of the Civil War in April 1861, FOLD 3 invites you to explore all records in its Civil War Collection for f...