Watch Tower History

I've written and rewritten my introduction. I threw everything out and wrote this instead. Rough Draft follows: My Turn: Rachael’s C...

            Writing solid, well-researched history is a challenge. Success depends on persistence and serendipity. A narrow view of events...

Mr. Schulz asked me to post an update. Except for the last chapter, the ebook version is formatted. We printed it out. We’ll make some cha...

We need a clear, readable scan of pages 46-47 of the October 1881 Herald of the Morning. We needed it yesterday .... In May 1881 Barbour i...

by “Jerome” Obituaries are a good source of information, although when it comes to accuracy they can leave a lot to be desired. The ev...

Any material you have relevant to the era from Grew to July 1879 that you wish to share should be sent now. Attach it to an email and send i...

This one was a poke in Barbour's eye and explains some things Barbour wrote in this period:   This one is S. O. Blunden's dea...

There will be roughly 350-370 pages in volume one. It will contain about 100 photos, either of individuals or of original documents. Whi...

  We need a volunteer who can merge the several chapters into one document. We need the formatting of each chapter, including the footno...

by "Jerome" Blogs are funny things, and there is no accounting for what appeals to readers out there. I am very pleased to...

This notice appeared in the June 1879 Herald of the Morning:   Can we document this meeting from newspaper reports?

   

Republished by permission of the author .... A night out at the cinema is still considered a treat today, but in 1915, when film making ...

This is what we have. Can you help us improve it: Emeline Bigelow-Jobes             Emeline Bigelow was born in September 1831 somewh...

We need biography for Emeline (sometimes spelled Emiline) B. Jobes who lived in Huron County , Ohio in the 1870s. Jobes is her marrie...

    We need as much biographical information as we can get on Mary Turner and her husband. Can you help?

Several helped with the touch-up to the roller skate ad. Here is one of the cleaned up versions: One of our constant (but shy) helpers ...

My internet is not working right. Charter Internet is mostly broken at the moment. I'm trying to upload chapter two for one of our regul...

A long-time blog reader feeds us a steady stream of research. Sometimes we already have what he sends, but often we don’t. He sends even t...

We are maybe two weeks away from finishing the rough draft of chapter 8, the last chapter of volume one of the new book. It will need pr...

But I need help removing the red highlight from Thomas Birney's name ... [click on the image to view.]     Those of you who don...

The collection of pamphlets mentioned below arrived in today’s mail. I’m very please, and I can see that these are indeed important to our...

     

A few of you support our work by occasional contributions. You have no idea how helpful this has been. Left to himself, Bruce would never ...