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Mr J Rice Cassidy & Co. Presents...

This website is dedicated to my grand uncle James Rice Cassidy and his wife Lillian Clare. For over thirty years (from the last decade of the 19th century until the 1920's) they toured the length and breadth of the British Isles entertaining audiences with their own special brand of humour and drama. Also contains links to other sites helpful for researchers with theatrical ancestors.

Schmelvis: In Search of Elvis Presley's Jewish Roots

A book by Jonathan Goldstein.

Screamin' Jay Hawkins Jayskids.com

A massive search is underway to locate the children of recently deceased legendary Rhythm & Blues singer Screamin' Jay Hawkins who, by his own estimation, fathered 57 children.

The Barrymores: Hollywood's First Family

A book by Carol Stein Hoffman.

The Era CD ROM Project

United Kingdom. The Era was a Victorian entertainment newspaper and is a valuable resource in both academic theatre research and genealogy of entertainers. This project will make decades of this paper available on searchable CD ROM.

Thomas Meighan, Silent Film Star -- 1879 - 1936

Info about silent-film star Thomas Meighan's genealogy and biography.

Von Trapp Family in Federal Records

Anyone who has seen the movie The Sound of Music may wonder what happened to the von Trapp family after they departed Austria in 1938. Federal records from the National Archives' Northeast Region can help shed some light on that question.