by Sharon Hall | Oct 31, 2026 | Digging History, Digging History Magazine, Services, Special Offers
Throughout New England’s colonial era, a number of so-called “panics” or “hysteria” infected the populace with irrational fears – which produced even more irrational responses to those fears. The Salem Witch Trials, as well as the Connecticut witch panic which...
by Sharon Hall | Oct 24, 2026 | Digging History, Digging History Magazine, Services, Special Offers
It’s Time to Rake the Leaves Several years ago I wrote an article for the October 2018 issue of Digging History Magazine, entitled “Genealogically Speaking: It’s Time to Rake the Leaves”. I thought it might be a good reminder to share excerpts from that article,...
by Sharon Hall | Oct 17, 2026 | Digging History, Digging History Magazine, Services, Special Offers
One of my favorite maxims – “genealogy is not for the faint of heart” – is the underlying premise of this multi-part article, a collection of challenges I’ve run across in my “research adventures” in pursuit of my own family history or that of my clients. Genealogy is...
by Sharon Hall | Oct 10, 2026 | Digging History, Digging History Magazine, Services, Special Offers
One of my favorite maxims – “genealogy is not for the faint of heart” – is the underlying premise of this multi-part article, a collection of challenges I’ve run across in my “research adventures” in pursuit of my own family history or that of my clients. Genealogy is...
by Sharon Hall | Oct 3, 2026 | Digging History, Digging History Magazine, Services, Special Offers
One of my favorite maxims – “genealogy is not for the faint of heart” – is the underlying premise of this multi-part article, a collection of challenges I’ve run across in my “research adventures” in pursuit of my own family history or that of my clients. Genealogy is...
by Sharon Hall | Sep 26, 2026 | Digging History, Digging History Magazine, Services, Special Offers
In case you missed it, here’s Part 1 of this short series. Part 2 highlights how Victorians addressed their fear of being buried alive — as the saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention! Necessity: The Mother of Invention One of the hallmarks of...
