Watch Tower History

Gertrude Seibert cards are quite collectable and for several decades in Watch Tower history, postcards and motto cards were regularly exch...

Some of you know of this, and some will not. Be that as it may, I need to identify this coin [or perhaps a jeton]. I appreciate any help you...

Below is an interesting image sent me from the Mike Castro archive collection. It is reproduced here with permission and with thanks. It is...

The problem with tracking Barbour's years in Australia is that records from the 1850s seldom present us with anything but a last name. S...

will find this useful: https://wtarchive.wordpress.com/english/souvenir-report/

Barbour departed the USA for Australia in 1852. We have three or four Australian blog readers. Are you up to checking passenger lists? The s...

Pleasing, but it would be better if visitors said hello or left a more meaningful comment.

I don't have access to British immigration records. Barbour arrived in the UK 1859/60 and was in Europe until 1862 or 1863. If you have ...

I have recently been sent a very nice photograph of Gertrude Seibert in her wedding dress. It illustrates the need to check information ca...

Most of those who read this blog know that I'm revising the Nelson Barbour book. I am very interested in knowing - in some detail - your...

(guest post by Leroy) The most read, translated and distributed magazine in the world has lived a long life. It was born in 1879 before...

lulu.com prints my books. They are in meltdown and some are alleging criminal intent. It is evident that I will soon need a new print on dem...

We're visited by members of a discussion board supposedly for Jehovah's Witnesses; most of it closed to outsiders. That includes m...

I receive an occasional email wishing that this blog also appeared in other languages. I have no plans to do that, and Google translate see...

I'm really ill. I have nearly 200 unanswered, unread emails. Contact me if you must, but please only do so if urgent until I post otherw...

An earlier post presents a photo with the speculation that it may be Joseph Russell. Mike C. replied in  the comments trail that it was Henr...

Is the man who wrote as O. F. L'Amoreaux, and who claimed to be Chair of Languages at Wheaton College really Oscar F. Lumry ?

All readers here will be familiar with the portrait of Joseph Lytle (sometimes Lytel) Russell that was taken in the 1850s. It appeared t...

Some of you will find these useful: https://ia802809.us.archive.org/34/items/jewish-hopes-russell-1910/Jewish%20hopes%2C%20by%20C.%20T.%20...

I received a notification that my inbox was so full it would shortly not accept new mail unless I went through it all and deleted stuff....

A few items from Tom's collection.