50th Wedding anniversary , July 2, 1903 Springfield, Massachusetts for Edward and Lucie (Archambeau) Mercier who were married at Palmer, Massachusetts July 2, 1853. Both were French Canadian Immigrants. He was born 18 Aug 1830 and she 24 Jan 1834. He died 11 Mar 1908 and she followed 9 April 1911 both at Springfield. They produced a family of 16 children, whose descendants number in the thousands today.
The 1800s where the end of the industrial revolution and the birth of scientists.
The Industrial Revolution began around 1760 and ran through the 1840's. Then began the birth of the profession of science. Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison, and Nikola Te...
Photos of the 1900's which brought us from the industrial age to the technological age.
From 1900 through 1999 we witnessed the beginning of flight to a man on the moon and a Mars Rover. We went from using phones tethered by cords and computers that filled rooms, to carrying the equivale...
World War 1, the Mexican Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Easter Rising in Ireland . . . the sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania. Spanish flu killed well over 20 million people world wide ...
Antique and old photos showing weddings and anniversaries through the centuries.
Did you know that the white wedding dress was popularized in the West by Queen Victoria in the 1800's? In the East, a red wedding dress is considered good luck.
Regardless of particular customs or...
Genealogist from Western, Massachusetts.
Varied ancestry including Yankee New England, French Canadian, Sicilian and Mainland Italian, Iranian, and German/Polish.