December 22, 2020

Dec 22 2020

‘Twas the Night Before Christmas: Unfolding Ancestral Traditions

4 Comments / Genohistory on Purpose, Newspapers, Research / By Donna Cox Baker / 11 minutes of reading

Happy holidays to you all! As I planned for this post, I intended something quick and simple about our ancestors’ holiday traditions. I thought it would be fun to pick a Christmas, any mid-nineteenth-century Christmas in my region of interest, and discuss how the local newspaper treated the holiday. I was in for a surprise.

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