Restore a photo without leaving your home…

The Family Time Machine now has a way that you can restore a photo via the internet that allows you to send us a photo to be restored and pay for it online while getting a digital copy back that you can print out and frame.  Here is how it works:
1. Scan the photo that [...]

Giving history a name

There are a lot of geneologists that become confused at some point in their search when they can identify a person, but they can’t give a date as to when that person died.  Similarly, there are also people who have graves with no name on them. 
Coincidence?  Not hardly.
Meet Todd Mathews from Livingston Tennessee – east [...]

Last Will and what?

Want to see something interesting?  I mean really interesting?  Click here.
There’s a common misconception in this country that the purpose of a will is to state who inherits what and what the dying wishes of the deceased are.
That may be true, but it is only two thirds right.  And as you will see in the above link, [...]

Restoration of the Week…

There are a number of buildings that you can run off that need attention to the point of restoration.  One of the most obvious to notice is the state of our high schools in this country.  There are so many schools that need work done on them, and yet there is also the common perspective [...]

Oldest recorded sound…

Audio historians released this week an audio recording like no other upon researchers and scientists at Stanford University.  The recording?  A French girl singing a french folk song estimated to be recorded in 1860.  The instrument to record the sounds?  A device made by a French inventor (the singer is probably his 15-year old daughter) [...]

The obituary…

About 10 years ago, I read an editorial by a writer for the Los Angeles Times who had heard that a teacher who had a profound impact on the writer’s life had passed away.  However, it wasn’t his passing that inspired her to write about him, but it was the fact that the Times didn’t [...]

Barry Manilow shares a story…

Last night, my wife Dawn and I went to Raleigh to see Barry Manilow at the RBC Center.  It was a birthday gift for Dawn because she had never seen the man that “writes the songs that the whole world sings.”  He did all of his hits in what seemed to be a smaller version [...]

Keeping along the same storyline…

I’m quite interested in going to see the movie “Leatherheads” starring George Clooney and Rene Zellwegger.  I’m not so much interested in the fact that it looks like an entertaining movie, but that it is a historical movie during that time when America was transitioning from a bit player on the world stage to having [...]

10 most historically inaccurate movies…

Yahoo has just put up on its website a list of the 10 most historically inaccurate movies. 
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/10mosthistoricallyinaccurate.html
Sure, we all know that directors take liberties in producing a movie that might be more pleasing to the audience watching.  But in more personal terms as it relates to the history we choose to remember ourselves, one might [...]

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