Watch Tower History

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This is the first edition of Divine Plan of the Ages in French. Released in 1897, both hard cover and soft cover. With grateful thanks to...

Never underestimate the importance of what may seem merely interesting, even trivial. One of the recent letters posted here changed a paragr...

Elie Jerville was a French Bible Student who was well-known in his day. Franco has kindly sent some correspondence Jerville received be...

from Franco In French-speaking Switzerland, in 1914-1915, postcards were distributed or mailed to potentially interested parties. One si...

Invitation to attend first Italian Convention. Click on image to see entire. Franco sent this photo too. Same convention:

            It’s time I restate the rules. This is a history blog. It is not social media. It exists solely to provide a platform for r...

Recent from Spain. Do you know each other?

We have one or two reactions of the 1881 failure of expectations. Do you have more? Probably do not exist, but we're asking anyway.

The comment trail for the post on General Hall discussed how Andrew Pierson, who was briefly vice-president of the Watch Tower Society, end...

Ancestry.com Daniele Rivoire (Daniel Jean-Paul Rivoire) was born in Angrogna, Piedmont, Turin, Italy on 1 Feb 1858 to Jean Rivoire and...

I wonder how many of our visitors talk to each other.

Usual rules: You may save for your own use. Do not share it. If you come late to the party, contact me, and I may send you a copy. This was...

            Perhaps the most significant, mostly positive review came from J. B. Rotherham. Russell and Rotherham shared key points of ...

Last month (December) Rachael posted that there had been a flurry of interest in an old post on Herman Heinfetter. You can find the origina...

Alexander Peter Stewart is the first on the left CHATTANOOGA PUBLIC LIBRARY 1905 "We had a warm welcome in St. Louis, too, ...

Dear Mister Schulz, Sorry for contacting you this way. My name is Dr. ----. I am a historian from Germany. Via Internet I have found your...

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My comments on the General Hall comment trail:               Several issues exist in this discussion, providing me with an excuse to...

Little Bighorn A real river ...

by Jerome The book God’s Kingdom Rules discusses on page 56 the stand that Bible Students took towards warfare during WW1. While t...

Usual stuff. You may copy for your own use. Do not share. This is work in progress. It may change. Further research may show some of it un...

We need every WT use of the phrases "changed condition" and "change of condition" from 1920 to 1950. If you have the se...

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Our request for reviews resulted in a few. Some from long time readers of this blog. And I think Sergio and Bruce posted on an older forum y...

https://books.google.com/books?id=PYsEAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Herman+Heinfetter&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjq_bmh-__Q...

by Jerome Rachael has several times bemoaned the fact that few have written reviews of Separate Identity, volume one. As an attempt to ...

Posting a review on Amazon or googlebooks or lulu.com helps us. Few have done it. You don't like our books? We finance our research out ...

When Maria married CTR at her mother’s residence on March 13, 1879 (service conducted by John H Paton) her younger brother, Lemuel, was...

With English language help from Rachael In 1911 (or soon after), the Italian Watch Tower branch published a four-page tract enti...

We need more Amazon reviews, preferably good ones. Twenty would be nice. If you liked our book, review it on Amazon, please.

I've found the text of a 'forgotten' debate from 1920. We need someone to transcribe it. This represents a lot of work. Anyone?...

Many of the questions asked on this blog or sent to us through email can be answered by consulting one of the digitized libraries of Watch T...