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Saturday, 30 October 2021

Families in Bethel

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  The Story of the MacMillan family An earlier post on this blog (search for article “The Brooklyn Bethel Family in 1910 and 1913”) showed...
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Saturday, 16 October 2021

Final resting places

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  Graveyard memorials are an interesting adjunct to genealogy and history. They often tell us about attitudes towards death and also fame, g...
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Saturday, 9 October 2021

Pictorial Memories

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  This blog’s function is to research history from the era of CTR. However, from time to time, material of a more recent nature has been off...
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Tuesday, 5 October 2021

French songbooks

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A few years ago Miquel kindly sent me some photographs of historical French language Songbooks that came to hand.   This songbook, a sec...
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Spanish songbook

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A few years ago Miquel kindly sent through the two interesting photographs above. This is the Spanish version of Hymns of Dawn, and as suc...
Sunday, 26 September 2021

Basil

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  Basil Stephanoff from Separate Identity volume 2 The book Jehovah’s Witnesses - Proclaimers of God’s Kingdom mentions briefly one Ba...
Wednesday, 15 September 2021

Peace - or Spot the Difference

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  (reprinted and revised version) A casual visitor to Brecon in South Wales, UK, might be tempted to visit the Brecon Cathedral, parts of ...
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Friday, 3 September 2021

The Parting of the Ways - 1

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  The Proclaimers book details how in 1917 and thereafter there was a split between those who stayed with the IBSA and its new president, J...
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Sunday, 29 August 2021

The Parting of the Ways - 2

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  There is a certain poignancy to these two advertisements from the Washington DC Evening Star for October 7, 1922, page 10. In the Church...
Tuesday, 24 August 2021

Franz Zürcher

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Although relating to events a little more recent than the general focus of this blog, this is an account that some may find of interest. Tha...
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Monday, 16 August 2021

Report on Foreign Missions

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Friday, 30 July 2021

The Joys of Old Documents

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  One of the “joys” of historical research is deciphering old documents. Forget issues like Latin or ancient languages, just the vagaries of...
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