Each Early American Life article has presented a detailed look at a tiny piece of our ancestors’ lives. Each investigation to research the article revealed that there was far more to a simple topic than expected. Juliana has been generous about letting me write long articles, but I’ve still had to leave out many things I learned during the research, including alternative information (especially when I felt it was somewhat inaccurate). The material I most often omitted tended to be not quite general enough, given the wide diversity of the interests of the readers of Ancestry Daily News.
Readers have occasionally told me of interesting tidbits that I failed to discover or hadn’t considered, which indicates that there is always more for us to learn. This doesn’t surprise me at all. And, occasionally, I make mistakes. So, I apologize to any reader who was trying to find the book by David Cressy that I mentioned in the previous column (on provisioning), erroneously spelling his name Cressey.
One thing that has been highlighted in comments from readers is that although I’ve been writing about an amorphous time period that I have been calling “early America,” many of the things I’ve written about continued into the twentieth century. They just aren’t widely known.
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