Darlene Gillespie is one of the original Mouseketeers on The Mickey Mouse Club. The most popular cast member in the first season, her popularity was usurped by Annette Funicello in the second season and thereafter. Darlene enjoyed a career in medicine, before becoming a petty criminal, and even did some jail time, before retiring to a respectable life. This is her intriguing tale.

Have you used the census in your genealogy? Even if you have, go back & look at it again. It has a lot to reveal. Here are 3 ways to get the most out of it.

Here’s how to use the signatures in guest books you or your relatives may have inherited to further your own genealogical research.

Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison was the 23rd First Lady of the United States and a hard-working one at that. Though her health was never robust during her marriage, she took on many duties to make herself useful both before and during her tenure as First Lady. Here is her story.