Watch Tower History

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 ...

  In the 1970s I used to do a slide and motion picture talk on the history of the Watch Tower Society – doing a balancing act with ...

They must be relatively short, well documented, without speculation. Personally, I'd like to see articles on the  Photo Drama in Europe....

Note about dates: Most of the dates given in this article only refer to the month and the year. There are discrepancies between published ...