Following the release of her debut book The Tears of Other People: A History and Memoir of Displacement in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, E. M. Ippolito presents her lived experience and research into the local trend of working-class displacement. From contemporary gentrification, to the red light district of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to its earliest English settlement in 1623, this history frames Portsmouth as a city defined by constant and ever-changing forms of targeted dispossession.

Anyone who delves into their family history soon discovers a common frustration: records don’t always tell the same story. Names diverge, dates contradict, place names don’t make sense. When the paper trail splits in two, how do you decide which path leads to the truth? Fortunately, there are a handful of effective strategies that can help you sift through the inconsistencies and find the facts about your ancestors.

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