AHNENTAFELING ALONG 2

 Generations 8 to 10.



Generation 8

132. John Ames: born 23 Aug 1756 in Groton, Middlesex, Ma.;
 married 1777; died  30 Sep 1833 in Canton, Oxford, Me.

133. Lydia Phelps: born 1753 in Groton, Middlesex, Ma.;
died 15 Apr 1833 in  Canton, Oxford, Me.

134. John Griffeth: born 4 Jun 1763 in Rochester, Plymouth., Ma;
died  8 Feb 1840 in Livermore, Androscoggin, Me.

135. Mary Boyden: born 19 Feb 1765 in Worcester, Worcester, Ma.;
died 1846 in  Livermore Falls, Androscoggin, Me.

138. Amasa Dow: born 17 Jan 1729 in Kingston, Rockingham, Nh;
married 16 May 1750 in Kingston, Rockingham, Nh.

139. Hannah Buswell: born 16 May 1732 in Kingston, Rockingham, Nh;
died bef 1800 in Prob. Bow, Hillsboro, Nh.

140. John Laughton: born 24 Jan 1767 in Groton, Middlesex, Ma.;
married 22 Feb 1787 in Norridgewok, Somerset, Me; died 25 Jul 1842.

141. Lydia Ann Mcgraugh.

142. Joshua Greenleaf: born 14 Jun 1765 in Wiscasset, Lincoln, Me.;
 married 1790; died 29 Sep 1856 in Mercer, Somerset, Me..

143. Hannah Williamson: born 12 Sep 1771 in Pownalborough, Me;
died  1 Nov 1859 in Dayton, La Salle, Il.

144. Joseph Ellingwood: born 22 Feb 1723 in Beverly, Essex, Ma;
married in  Beverly, Essex, Ma; died 15 Jun 1790 in Lyndeborough,
 Hillsborough, Nh.

145. Sarah Herrick: born 1725 in Beverly Essex Ma..

146. Jonathan Abbott: born 29 Aug 1740 in Andover, Essex, Ma;
 married 1764;  died 26 Dec 1821 in Andover, Essex, Ma.

147. Mehitable Abbott: born 22 Aug 1736 in Andover, Essex, Ma;
died 1 Jan 1777 in Andover, Essex, Ma.

148. Moses Barrows: born abt 1725 in Plympton, Plymouth, Ma;
married 29 Dec 1748 in Plympton, Plymouth, Ma; died 23 Feb 1795 in
Cornish, Sullivan, Nh.

149. Deborah Totman: born 23 Mar 1731 in Plymouth, Plymouth , Ma;
 died 28 May 1813 in Cornish, Sullivan, Nh.

150. Caleb Benson: born 29 Jan 1704 in Rochester, Plymouth, Ma;
married 11 Jan 1732 in Rochester, Plymouth, Ma; died 7 May 1788
in Middleborough, Plymouth, Ma.

151. Deborah Barrows: born 1713 in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Ma;
died 1738.

152. John Dunham: born 12 Jul 1726 in Carver, Plymouth, Ma;
married 13 Nov 1755 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Ma; died 30 Apr 1814
in Carver, Plymouth, Ma.

153. Mary Thomas: born 11 May 1738 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Ma..

154. Reuben Packard: born 8 Nov 1737 in North Bridgewater, Plymouth Ma;
married 3 Oct 1759 in North Bridgewater Plymouth Ma; died 6 Dec 1820
in Hebron, Oxford, Me.

155. Anne Perkins: born 1737 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Ma.;
died 10 Mar 1806 in Hebron, Oxford, Me..

156. Elisha Houghton: born 20 Jul 1746 in Fitchburg, Worcester, Ma
; married 30 Nov 1768 in Bolton, Worcester, Ma; died 18 Nov 1826 in
Shaftsbury, Bennington, VT.

157. Meriah Peirce: born 19 Oct 1748 in Harvard, Worcester, Ma;
died 12 Apr 1781.

158. Samuel Haskell: born 12 Jun 1749 in Harvard, Worcester, Ma;
 married 6 Dec 1770 in Harvard, Worcester, Ma; died 16 Apr 1825
in Waterford, Oxford, Me.

159. Ruth Safford: born 1750 in Harvard, Worcester, Ma.; died
 23 Sep 1827 in Waterford, Oxford, Me.

160. Jonathan Barker: born 23 Oct 1728 in Andover, Essex, Ma;
 married 13 Oct 1750 in Haverhill, Essex, Ma; died 29 Apr 1794 in
Methuen, Essex, Ma..

161. Abigail Mitchell: born 23 May 1730 in Haverhill, Essex. Ma;
died 15 Feb 1806 in Methuen, Essex, Ma

162. James Swan: born 14 Mar 1712 in Methuen, Essex, Ma;
died 1800 in Bethel, Oxtord, Me..

163. Mary Smith: born 9 Apr 1728 in Haverhill, Essex, Ma.

164. John Hastings: born 23 Jan 1717/8 in Haverhill, Essex, Ma;
died 25 Nov 1794 in Haverhill, Essex, Ma.

165. Rebekah Kelley: born 22 Dec 1722 in Salem, Nh; died
5 Oct 1758 in Haverhill, Essex, Ma.

166. William Wiley: born 1722 in Andover, Essex, Ma;
 married 19 Jan 1748 in Andover, Ma ; died 4 Feb 1798 in
Fryeberg, Oxford, Me

167. Elizabeth Walker: born 17 Mar 1728 in Woburn, Ma; died in
Fryeburg, Oxford, Me

168. Caleb Coburn: born 12 Dec 1738 in Dracut, Middlesex, Ma.

170. Lot Spaulding: born 24 Sep 1737 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Ma;
 married 27 Jun 1764; died 15 Jun 1822 in Pelham, Hillsboro, NH.

171. Esther Butterfield: born 13 Nov 1738 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Ma.

172. Samuel Stowe.

173. Abigail Dana.

188. Amos Upton: born 3 Oct 1742 in Reading, Middlesex, Ma; married
 13 Feb 1766 in No. Reading, Middlesex. Ma; died 3 Apr 1838 in Norway,
Oxford, Me

189. Edith Upton: born 24 Oct 1744 in No. Reading, Middlesex, Ma; died
 24 Dec 1781 in North Reading, Middlesex, Ma

190. John Bancroft: born 21 Oct 1749 in Lynn, Essex, Ma; married
24 Oct 1768 in Lynn, Essex, Ma; died abt 1820 in Norway, Oxford, Me.

191. Mary Walton: born 7 Mar 1749 in Reading, Middlesex, Ma.

Generation 9

264. John Ames: born 6 May 1725 in Groton, Ma..

265. Susannah Nutting: born 12 Nov 1734 in Groton, Essex, Ma.

268. Ephram Griffeth: born 25 Jul 1733 in Rochester, Plymouth, Ma.;
married 10 Feb 1757 in Rochester, Plymouth, Ma.; died Dec 1823.

269. Mary Ellis: born in Rochester, Plymouth, Ma.

270. Hezekiah Boyden: born 28 Nov 1739 in Worcester, Worcester, Ma;
married 13 Sep 1764 in Worcester, Worcester, Ma; died 9 Feb 1800 in
 Newfane, Windham, Vt.

271. Elizabeth Green: born 16 Feb 1746 in Worcester, Worcester, Ma;
died 11 Feb 1841 in Willet, Cortland, Ny.

276. Amasa Dow: born abt 1704 in New Hampshire; married 28 Jun 1729 in
 Salisbury, Essex, Ma; died bef 28 Sep 1730 in New Hampshire.

277. Lydia Robey: born 23 May 1703 in Hampton Nh.

278. William Buswell: born 23 Jul 1692 in Boxford, Essex, Ma; married
14 Jul 1731 in Salisbury, Essex, Ma; died 21 Feb 1779 in Kingston, Rockingham,
 Nh.

279. Abigail Thorne: born 3 Sep 1707 in Salisbury, Essex, Ma.

280. John Laughton: born 1731; died 1 Mar 1785 in Norridgewock, Somerset, Me..

281. Jane Adams: born 3 Jun 1740 in Lexington, Middlesex, Ma..

282. Unknown

283. Unknown .

284. Joseph Greenleaf: born 2 Jul 1727 in York, York, Me; died 1772.

285. Dorcas GRAY: born abt 1731 in , , Maine; died 1812/3.

286. Jonathan Williamson: born 15 Mar 1735 in Georgetown, Lincoln, Me;
died 24 Mar 1826 in Starks, Starks, Me.

287. Hannah .

288. Ebenezer Ellingwood: born 29 Aug 1697 in Beverly, Essex, Ma.;
married 23 Mar 1718 in Beverly, Essex, Ma; died bef 1763 in Amherst, Hillsborough,
Nh.

289. Sarah Tuck: born 28 Jul 1701 in Marblehead, Essex, Ma; died 1727 in Amherst,
 Hillsorough, Nh.

290. Joseph Herrick: born 16 Nov 1695 in Beverly, Essex, Ma; married 7 Mar 1722
in Beverly, Essex, Ma; died 12 Jan 1777 in Gloucester, Essex, Ma.

291. Mary Woodbury: born 18 Apr 1697 in Beverly, Essex, Ma.

292. Jonathan Abbott: born 14 Dec 1714 in Andover, Essex, Ma; married
8 Oct 1739 in Andover, Essex, Ma; died 21 May 1794 in Andover, Essex, Ma.

293. Martha Lovejoy: born 2 Nov 1720 in Andover, Essex, Ma.

294. Ephriam Abbott: born Jun 1710 in Andover, Essex, Ma; married
14 Feb 1734 in Andover, Essex, Ma; died 25 Apr 1745 in Andover, Essex, Ma.

295. Hannah PHELPS: born ABT 1715/1726 in , Andover, Essex, Ma.

296. Moses Barrows: born 14 Feb 1697 in Carver, Plymouth, Ma.;
married 4 Dec 1717 in Plympton, Plymouth, Ma.

297. Mary Carver: born 4 Oct 1696 in Plymouth, Plymouth. Ma..

298. Samuel Totman: born 20 Jul 1699 in Scituate, Plymouth, Ma;
married 17 Apr 1727 in Plymouth, Plymouth. Ma.; died abt 1750.

299. Experience Rogers: born 28 Apr 1707 in Plymouth, Plymouth. Ma.; d
ied aft 2 Apr 1750.

300. John Benson: born 1663 in Hull, Plymouth, Ma; married Sep 1688 in
 Sandwich, Plymouth, Mass; died 10 Mar 1711 in Hull, Plymouth, Ma.

301. Elizabeth Briggs: born 3 Apr 1665 in Sandwich, Plymouth, Ma.

302. George Barrows: born 1670 in Plymouth, Plymouth. Ma.; married
14 Feb 1694 in Carver, Plymouth, Ma.; died 23 Mar 1758 in Carver, Plymouth, Ma..

303. Patience Simmons: born 1676 in Duxbury, Plym, Mass; died
30 Oct 1723 in Plymouth, Plymouth. Ma..

304. Ebenezer Dunham: born 24 Feb 1692 in Plymouth, Plymouth Ma.;
married 1 Jun 1720 in Middleborough Plymouth Ma; died 21 Jan 1771
 in Plymouth, Plymouth Ma..

305. Abigail Smith: born 10 Feb 1693/4; died 16 Nov 1767 in Plymouth,
Plymouth Ma..

306. John Thomas.

307. Abigail Dunham: born 17 Jul 1707.

308. James Packard: born 2 Jun 1691 in Bridgwater, Plymouth, Ma;
married 7 Jun 1722 in Bridgwater, Plymouth, Ma; died 22 Nov 1765 in
Bridgwater, Plymouth, Ma.

309. Jemima Keith: born 11 Nov 1701 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, MA;
died 8 Dec 1765 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, MA.

310. Mark Perkins: born 30 Apr 1699 in Beverly, Essex, Ma,;  married
 4 Jun 1721 in Ipswich, Essex, Ma; died 20 Dec 1756 in North Bridgewater,
 Plymouth, Ma

311. Dorothy Whipple: born 1702 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Ma;
died 1 May 1782 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Ma

312. Ephraim Houghton: born abt 1700 in Lancaster, Worcester, Ma;
married 10 Dec 1725.

313. Sally Sawyer: born abt 1708 in Lancaster, Worcester, Ma;
died 28 May 1761 in Harvard, Worcester, Ma..

314. John Pierce: born 23 May 1716 in Woburn, Ma; married
22 Nov 1744 in Harvard, Worcester, Ma; died aft 1776.

315. Hannah Stone: born 18 Apr 1726 in Groton, Middlesex, Ma;
died 16 Apr 1811 in Harvard, Worcester, Ma.

316. Samuel Haskell: born 13 Sep 1715 in Gloucester, Essex, Ma;
married 10 May 1744 in Harvard, Worcester, Ma; died 13 Oct 1771
 in Harvard, Worcester, Ma.

317. Sibel Willard: born 19 Feb 1723 in Gloucester, Essex, Ma;
 died 9 Jul 1799 in Waterford, Oxford, Me.

318. John Safford: born 6 Mar 1709/10 in Ipswich, Essex, Ma.; married
 13 Sep 1735 in Ipswich, Essex, Ma.; died 2 Jun 1782 in Harvard,
Worcester, Ma..

319. Martha Haskell: born 18 Feb 1712 in Gloucester, Essex, Ma;
died 30 Apr 1807 in Harvard, Worcester, Ma..

320. Jonathan Barker: born 14 Jul 1706 in Andover, Essex, Ma;
married 26 Jan 1728 in Andover, Essex, Ma.; died 20 Jan 1737 in Methuen,
Essex, Ma.

321. Mary Abbott: born 24 Apr 1709 in Marblehead, Essex, Ma.

322. Andrew Mitchell: born 22 Jan 1693 in Charlestown, Middlesex, Ma;
 died 9 Jul 1757 in Lunenburg, Worcester, Ma.

323. Hannah Ayer: born 29 Nov 1694 in Haverhill, Essex, Ma; died
23 Jan 1780 in Haverhill, Essex, Ma

324. Joshua Swan: born 13 Sep 1674 in Methuen, Essex, Ma,
 died 2 Sep 1751 in Methuen, Essex, Ma,

325. Sarah Ingalls: born 22 Jan 1679 in Andover, Essex, Ma; died
7 Sep 1760 in Methuen, Essex, Ma,.

328. John Hastings: born 2 Sep 1691 in Haverhill, Essex, Ma; married
 2 May 1717 in Haverhill, Essex, Ma.

329. Ednah Bailey: born 26 Jun 1686 in Bradford, Essex, Ma.

330. Richard Kelley: born 24 Oct 1697 in Newbury, Essex, Ma.;
married 28 Sep 1721 in Newbury, Essex, Ma.

331. Susannah Hoyt: born 20 Feb 1696 in Amesbury, Essex, Ma.

334. Benjamin Walker: born  7Jul 1699 in Woburn, Middlesex, Ma;
died 1741 in Wilmington, Middlesex, Ma

335. Grace Tay: born 1704/5 in Woburn, Middlesex, Ma; died 1794.

336. Moses Coburn: born 1 Jan 1702 in Dracut, Middlesex, Ma; died
5 Jun 1742 in Dracut, Middlesex, Ma.

337. Deborah Wright: born 29 Jul 1703 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Ma.

340. John Spaulding: born 20 Aug 1682 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Ma.;
married 6 Feb 1705 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Ma; died 7 Mar 1760 in
Chelmsford, Middlesex, Ma..

341. Mary Barrett: born 9 May 1684 in Chelmsford Essex Ma; died
 16 Apr 1760.

342. David BUTTERFIELD: born 1702 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Ma;
died 3 Dec 1763

343. Kezia Shuttleworth.

376. Amos Upton: born 20 Oct 1717 in Salem, Essex, Ma; married
 5 Dec 1739 in Danvers, Essex, Ma; died 6 Oct 1780.

377. Sarah Bickford: born 30 Dec 1722 in Salem, Essex, Ma; died
26 Nov 1818 in North Reading, Middlesex, Mass.

378. Francis Upton: born 13 May 1712 in No. Reading, Middlesex Ma;
died 1756 in No. Reading, Middlesex Co, Ma.

379. Edith Herrick.

380. John BANCROFT: born 25 Jun 1708 in Lynn, Essex, Ma; married
 1748 in Lynn, Essex, Ma; died 20 Apr 1777 in Lynn, Essex, Ma.

381. Eve Hawkes: born 1708; died 25 Mar 1797 in Lynn, Essex, Ma.

382. Jacob Walton: born 1723 in Reading Ma; married 6 Mar 1744 in
 Reading, Middlesex, Ma; died 4 Sep 1789 in Wakefield, Middlesex, Ma.

383. Eunice Hawkes: born 30 Jun 1728 in Reading, Middlesex, Ma;
died Dec 1754 in Wakefield, Middlesex, Ma

Generation 10

528. John Ames: born 11 Aug 1693 in Andover, Essex, Ma.; died 30 Jul 1743
 in Groton, Middlesex, Ma..

529. Elizabeth Green: born 10 Jun 1704 in Groton, Middlesex, Ma; died
aft Mar 1749 in Groton, Middx, Ma.

530. John Nutting: born 1702; married 31 Mar 1727 in Chelmsford. Middlesex,
 Ma; died 1785 in Groton, Middlesex, Ma.

531. Mary Spaulding: born 19 Jan 1708 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Ma; died
24 Sep 1778 in Groton, Middlesex, Ma.

536. Samuel Griffeth: born abt 1700; married 24 Sep 1723 in Rochester,
Plymouh, Ma.

537. Eleanor Estey: born 5 Mar 1703/4 in Rochester, Plymouth, Ma..

538. Seth Ellis: born 1699 in Middleboro, Plymouth, Ma; married
 26 Feb 1729/30 in Rochester, Plymouth, Ma; died bef 3 Jul 1749.

539. Mary Bumpus: born 7 May 1704 in Rochester, Plymouth, Ma.

540. Daniel Boyden: born 1 Mar 1707 in Dedham, Middlesex, Ma;
married 24 Sep 1734 in Dedham, Ma; died 29 Jan 1782 in Auburn, Worcester, Ma..

541. Mehitable Man: born 1 Sep 1713 in Wrentham Ma.; died 7 Jun 1789 i
n Auburn, Worcester, Ma..

542. Thomas Green: born 1723/4 in Shrewsbury Ma; married 1745;
died 1804 in Newfane, Vt..

543. Elizabeth Morse: born 18 Mar 1725 in Holliston, Ma; died
1804 in Newfane, Vt..

552. Joseph Dow: born 20 Oct 1663 in Hampton, Rockingham, Nh;
married 1698/1703 in Hampton, Rockingham, Nh; died 6 Feb 1735
in Salisbury, Essex, Ma.

553. Hannah Challis: born 20 Sep 1675 in Salisbury, Essex, Ma;
died 1735 in Seabrook, Rockingham, Nh.

554. Ichabod Robie: born 26 Nov 1664 in Hampton, Rockingham, Nh;
died 15 May 1757 in Hampton, Rockingham, Nh.

555. Lucie Page: born 22 Jul 1672 in Hampton, Rockingham, Nh;
died bef 1717.

556. Isaac Buswell: born 6 Jun 1657 in Salisbury, Essex, Ma; married
1690 in Ma; died 6 Jun 1709 in Salisbury, Essex, Ma.

557. Ann Ordway: born 12 Feb 1670 in Newbury, Essex, Ma.

558. James THORN: born abt 1683 in Salisbury, Essex, Ma;
 married 12 Jan 1702 in Salisbury, Essex, Ma.

559. Hannah Brown: born 5 Feb 1683 in Salisbury, Essex, Ma;
died 16 Mar 1741 in Salisbury, Essex, Ma.

560. John Laughton: born 26 Jan 1708 in Reading, Middlesex, Ma..;
married 28 Jul 1730 in Reading, Middlesex, Ma; died 1745.

561. Hepzibath Stimson: born 1 Jan 1707 in Reading, Middlesex, Ma.

562. Mephibosheth Adams: born 3 Jul 1715 in Lexington, Middlesex, Ma.;
 married 2 May 1734 in Lexington, Middlesex, Ma..

563. Jane Derby.

568. Stephen Greenleaf: born abt 1701 in York, York, Me; married
7 Oct 1712 in Newburyport, Essex, Ma.

569. Mary Mackres: born abt 1705 in York, York, Me.

576. Ralph Ellingwood: born 18 Mar 1657 in Salem Essex Ma; married
19 Aug 1691 in Marblehead Essex Ma; died 1728.

577. Martha Rowlandson: born 24 Aug 1666 in Salisbury, Essex, Ma;
died 1707 in Beverly, Essex, Ma.

578. Joseph Tuck: born Sep 1676 in Beverly, Essex, Mass.; married
 27 Oct 1698 in Marblehead, Essex,  Ma; died 2 Mar 1718 in Beverly,
Essex, Mass..

579. Sarah Reith: born 27 Oct 1698 in Beverly, Essex, Mass.; died
 25 Sep 1749 in Salem, Essex Co, Ma.

580. Samuel Herrick: born 6 Dec 1668 in Beverly, Essex, Ma; married
25 May 1690 in Salem, Essex, Ma; died 22 May 1743 in Gloucester, Essex, Ma.

581. Sara Leach: born 31 Aug 1673.

582. Robert Woodbury: born 4 Jul 1672 in Beverly, Essex, Ma; married
11 Dec 1693 in Beverly, Essex, Ma; died 13 Oct 1746 in Beverly, Essex, Ma.

583. Mary West: born 4 Mar 1676 in Beverly, Essex, Ma; died 6 Dec 1754
 in Beverly, Essex, Ma.

584. Jonathan Abbott: born 1 Sep 1687 in Andover, Essex, Ma; married
6 May 1713 in Andover, Essex, Ma; died 21 Mar 1770 in Andover, Essex, Ma.

585. Zerviah Holt: born 3 Mar 1689 in Andover, Essex. Ma; died
26 Mar 1768 in Andover, Essex, Ma.

586. Henry Lovejoy: born 27 Mar 1683 in Andover, Essex, Ma; married
 14 Feb 1711 in Andover, Essex, Ma; died 2 Feb 1776 in Andover, Essex, Ma.

587. Sarah Farnum: born 1687 in Andover, Essex, Ma.

588. Stephen Abbott: born 14 Feb 1678 in Andover, Essex, Ma; married
22 Jul 1708 in Andover, Essex, Ma; died 27 May 1766 in Andover, Essex, Ma.

589. Sarah Stevens: born 28 Oct 1681 in Andover, Essex, Ma; died
25 Dec 1750 in Andover, Essex, Ma.

590. Samuel PHELPS: born 22 Nov 1684 in Andover, Essex, Ma;
married 3 Jun 1708 in Andover, Essex, Ma; died 26 Apr 1774 in Andover,
Essex, Ma.

591. Hannah DANE: born 8 Nov 1687 in Andover, Essex, Ma; died 26 May 1746
in Andover, Essex, Ma.

592. George Barrows: Same as person number 302.

593. Patience Simmons: Same as person number 303.

594. John Carver: born 1661 in Marshfield Ply. Ma.; married 24 Oct 1689
in Plymouth, Plymouth. Ma.; died 1747 in Plympton, Plymouth,. Ma..

595. Mary Barnes: born 14 Aug 1667 in Plymouth, Plymouth. Ma.; died
Apr 1696 in Plymouth, Plymouth. Ma..

596. Stephen Totman: born 1664/5 in Scituate, Plymouth, Ma; married abt
1691 in Scituate, Plymouth, Ma; died in Plymouth, Plymouth. Ma..

597. Dorothy Stoddard: born 24 Nov 1665 in Boston, Suffolk, Ma.; died aft
 1707 in Scituate, Plymouth, Ma.

598. Eleazar Rogers: born 3 Nov 1673 in Eastham, Barnstable, Ma; married
28 Jan 1689/90 in Plymouth, Plymouth. Ma.; died aft 10 Dec 1739 in
Plymouth, Plymouth. Ma..


599. Ruhama Willis: born 1677 in Plymouth, Plymouth. Ma.; died aft 10 Dec 1739.

600. John Benson: born 1634 in Caversham, Oxford, England; married 1662
 in Hull, Plymouth, Ma; died 10 Mar 1711 in Hull, Plymouth, Ma.

601. Elizabeth Marsh: born 8 May 1638 in Hull, Plymouth, Ma; died
26 Feb 1704 in Hull, Plymouth, Ma.

602. Samuel Briggs: born bef 1641 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Ma; died aft 1714.

603. Elizabeth Ellis: born abt 1645.

604. Robert Barrows: born 5 Nov 1639 in Salem, Essex, Ma.; married
28 Nov 1666 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Ma.; died 19 Dec 1707 in Plymouth,
Plymouth. Ma..

605. Ruth Bonham: born 28 Nov 1646 in Plymouth, Plymouth Co. Ma.;
died abt 1676.

606. Moses Simmons: born 1635 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Ma; married 1662
in Duxbury, Plymouth, Ma; died 18 Mar 1676 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Ma.

607. Patience Barstow: born 12 Mar 1643 in Dedham, Norfolk, Ma.

608. Samuel Dunham: born abt 1653 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Ma;
married 30 Jun 1680 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Ma; died 1717/8 in Plymouth,
 Plymouth, Ma.

609. Mary Harlow: born 19 May 1659 in Plymouth, Plymouth Ma.; died
Jan 1743/4 in Plymouth, Plymouth Ma..

610. John Smith: died 16 May 1727 in Middleboro, Plymouth, Ma.

611. Mary Ellingwood.

612. James Thomas.

613. Mary Tilden: born 7 Apr 1668 in Scituate, Plymouth, Ma; died 1 Feb 1740.

614. Micajah Dunham: born 1673 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Ma.

615. Elizabeth Lazell: born 1681 in MA.

616. Zacheus Packard: born 20 Apr 1651 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Ma.;
married 1679 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA; died 3 Aug 1723
in Bridgewater, Plymouth, MA.

617. Sarah Howard: born 20 Aug 1648 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Ma.;
died 1703 in West Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA.

618. Joseph Keith: born 15 Feb 1675 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Ma.;
 married 1695 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Ma.; died 27 Sep 1730 in
 Bridgewater, Plymouth, Ma..

619. Elizabeth Forbes (Fobes): born 20 Mar 1677 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Ma.;
 died 12 Feb 1758 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Ma..

620. Luke Jr Perkins: born 18 Mar 1667 in Charlestown, Middlesex, Ma;
married 31 May 1688 in Salem, Essex, Ma; died 27 Dec 1748 in Plympton,
 Plymouth, Ma

621. Martha Conant: born 15 Aug 1664 in Beverly, Essex, Ma; died 2 Jan 1754
in Plympton, Plymouth, Ma.

624. James Houghton: born 1650 in Massachusetts; died 1711 in
Charlestown, Suffolk, Ma.

625. Mary SAWYER: born 2 Jan 1651 in Lancaster, Worcester, Ma; died
 1711 in Lancaster, Worcester, Ma.

626. Joseph Sawyer: born abt 1682 in Lancaster, Worcester, Ma.; died
10 Jul 1737 in Lancaster, Worcester, Ma..

627. Sarah Beaman: born 25 Jan 1681/2 in Lancaster, Worcester, Ma.;
 died 7 Mar 1716/7 in Lancaster, Worcester, Ma..

628. Daniel PIERCE: born 7 Oct 1676 in Woburn, Middlesex, Ma; married
 3 Jul 1716; died in Prob. Woburn, Middlesex,

629. Dinah Holt: born 23 May 1681 in Andover, Essex, Ma; died
7 Jan 1738 in Woburn, Middlesex, Ma.

630. Simon Stone: born 1 Aug 1686 in Groton, Middlesex, Ma; died
1712 in Harvard, Worcester, Ma.

631. Sarah Turner: born abt 1690.

632. Henry Haskell: born 2 Apr 1678 in Gloucester, Essex, Ma; married
13 Jan 1703 in Harvard, Worcester, Ma.; died 17 Apr 1739 in Harvard,
Worcester, Ma..

633. Ruth York: born abt 1682 in Durham, Stafford, Nh; died 16 Jun 1749
in Harvard, Worcester, Ma..

634. Joseph Willard: born 1686 in Lancaster, Worcester, Ma; married abt
 1711; died 30 Jul 1761 in Harvard, Worcester, MA.

635. Elizabeth Tarbell: born 19 Aug 1691 in Lancaster, Worcester, Ma;
died 23 Dec 1763 in Harvard, Worcester, Ma..

636. Thomas Safford: born 16 Oct 1672 in Ipswich, Essex, Ma.; married
 7 Oct 1698 in Ipswich, Essex, Ma.; died 30 Apr 1754 in Ipswich, Essex, Ma..

637. Eleanor Cheney: born 29 Mar 1679 in Newbury, Essex, Ma; died
22 Dec 1724.

638. Mark Haskell: born 16 Sep 1687 in Gloucester, Essex, Ma; married
21 Jan 1709 in Gloucester, Essex, Ma; died 25 Aug 1775 in Ipswich, Essex, Ma..

639. Martha Tutthill: born 26 Nov 1690 in Ipswich, Essex, Ma; died
15 May 1763 in Ipswich, Essex Ma.

640. Benjamin Barker: born 28 Feb 1663 in Andover, Essex, Ma; married
 2 Jan 1688 in Andover, Essex, Ma; died 11 Oct 1750.

641. Hannah Marston: born 16 Feb 1667 in Andover, Essex, Ma; died
14 Jan 1733 in Andover, Essex, Ma.

644. Andrew Mitchell: born abt 1656 in Charlestown, Essex, Ma ; died
25 Nov 1736 in Haverhill, Essex, Ma

645. Abigail Atwood: born 1662 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Ma; died 1714
 in Haverhill, Essex, Ma.

646. Samuel Ayer: born 28 Sep 1669 in Haverhill, Essex, Ma; died
2 Jan 1743 in Haverhill, Essex, Ma.

647. Elizabeth Tuttle: born 24 Nov 1670 in Ipswich, Essex, Ma; died
 29 Nov 1752 in Haverhill, Essex, Ma

648. Robert Swan: born 1627 in Rowland, Derbyshire, England; died
11 Feb 1697 in Haverhill, Essex, Ma.

649. Elizabeth Acy: born 1632 in Haverhill, Essex, Ma; died 11 Aug 1689.

650. Henry Ingalls: born 2 Jan 1627; died 8 Feb 1718 in Andover, Essex, Ma..

651. Mary Osgood: born 6 Jul 1653; died 16 Dec 1686 in Andover, Essex, Ma..

656. Robert Hastings: born 1653 in Haverhill, Essex, Ma; married
31 Oct 1676 in Haverhill, Essex, Ma; died 4 Jun 1737 in Haverhill, Essex, Ma.

657. Elizabeth Davis: born 11 Mar 1654 in Haverhill, Essex, Ma.

658. Joseph Bailey.

659. Abigail TRUMBULL: born 10 Dec 1651 in Rowley, Essex, Ma;
died 17 Nov 1735 in Bradford, Essex, Ma.

660. Abiell Kelley: born 12 Dec 1672 in Newbury, Essex, Ma; married
 5 Jan 1696 in Newbury, Essex, Ma; died 18 Jun 1750 in Methuen, Rockingham, Nh.

661. Rebecca Davis: born 1677 in Haverhill, Essex. Ma.

662. William Hoyt (Hoitt): born 5 Sep 1660 in Salisbury, Essex, Ma; married
12 Jan 1687 in Amesbury, Essex, Ma; died 19 Jul 1728 in Amesbury, Essex, Ma.

663. Dorothy Colby: born 13 Nov 1668 in Amesbury, Essex, Ma; died aft
5 Aug 1728 in Methuen, Essex, Ma.

668. John Walker: born 14 Feb 1650 in Reading, Middlesex, Ma; died
 3 Jan 1723 in Woburn, Middlesex, Ma

669. Bethiah Simonds: born  9 May 1659-in Woburn, Middlesex, Ma

670. Nathaniel Tay: born 23 Feb 1656 in Woburn, Middlesex, Ma; died
18 Apr 1724 in Woburn, Middlesex, Ma

671. Bathsheba Wyman: born 6 Oct 1658 in Woburn, Middlesex, Ma; died
 9 Jul 1730 in Woburn, Middlesex, Ma.

672. Joseph Colburn: born 16 Jun 1661 in Ipswich, Essex, Ma; died
 13 Nov 1733 in Dracut, Middlesex, Ma.

674. Joseph Wright: born 15 Oct 1663 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Ma; married
1697 in Dracut, Middlesex, Ma; died 14 Oct 1730.

675. Deborah STEVENS: born 1676 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Ma

680. Andrew Spaulding: born 19 Nov 1652 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Ma;
married 9 Dec 1670 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Ma.; died 5 May 1713 in
 Chelmsford, Middlesex, Ma.

681. Hannah Jefes (Jifes): born 14 Feb 1654 in Billerica, Middlesex, Ma; died
 21 Jan 1730 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Ma.

682. Jonathan Barrett: born abt 1651 in Braintree, Norfolk, Ma; married in
 Chelmsford, Middlesex, Ma.; died 28 Mar 1743 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Ma..

683. Sarah Learnard: born 28 Oct 1653 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Ma.; died
11 Jan 1695 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Ma..

684. Jonathan BUTTERFIELD: born 1678 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Ma; died
1750 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Ma.

685. Elizabeth Chamberlain: born abt 1682 in Chelmsford, Middlesex , Ma.

686. Unknown .

687. Unknown .

752. Samuel UPTON: born Oct 1664 in Salem, Essex, Ma; married
 14 Jan 1702 in Salem, York, Me; died 1743.

753. Abigail FROST: born 1679 in Salem, York, Me.

754. John Bickford: born About:1674; died !3 Mar 1771 in Reading, Middlesex,Ma

755. Rebecca Pinson: born About:1679 died  12 Mar 1761 in Reading, Middlesex, Ma

756. William UPTON: born 10 Jun 1663 in Danvers, Essex, Ma; died
1740 in Danvers, Essex, Ma.

757. Mary Maber.

760. John Jr. BANCROFT: born 25 Jan 1682 in Lynn, Essex, Ma; died
20 Dec 1768 in Lynn, Essex, Ma.

761. Mary CLARKE: born 3 Feb 1683 in Reading, Middlesex, Ma; died
 1 Oct 1723 in Lynn, Essex., Ma..

762. John Hawkes: born 10 Apr 1690 in Lynn, Essex, Ma; died 20 Aug 1748
 in Lynn, Essex, Ma.

763. Mary (Margery) Whitford: born 12 Feb 1690/1 in Lynn, Essex, Ma;
died 21 Apr 1758 in Lynn, Essex, Ma.

764. John WALTON: born 31 Jan 1685 in Reading, Middlesex, Ma; died
31 Jan 1774 in Reading, Middlesex, Ma..

765. Mary WILLIAMS: born abt 1689 in Reading, Middlesex, Ma

766. John Hawkes: born 10 Apr 1690 in Lynn, Essex, Ma; married
 12 Aug 1710 in Lynn, Essex, Ma.

767. Mary (Margery) Whitford: Same as person number 763.

AHNENTAFELING ALONG 1

I've never really participated in the Surname Saturday meme. I thought
that before I jumped in I'd post my Ahnentafel but decided to stick to
the first thirteen generations because beyond that I get into the names
of European ancestors with information I'm not convinced is accurate.

I have left off my name and my parents' for reasons of security.

Here's Generations 3 through 7:
Generation 3

4. Floyd Earl West: born 14 Apr 1893 in So.Paris, Oxford, Me.; married
24 Mar 1919 in Errol, Coos, Nh.; died 28 Jan 1970 in Wilsons Mills,
 Oxford, Me..

5. Cora Bertha Barker: born 27 Oct 1899 in Bethel, Oxford, Me.;
died Jun 1987 in  Errol, Coos, Nh.

6. Edward Francis White  Sr: born 3 Jul 1899 in Massachusetts;
 died 6 Dec 1981 in  Billerica, Middlesex, Ma.

7. Agnes McFarland: born 11 Oct 1898 in Boston, Suffolk, Ma.;
 died 12 Feb 1957 in Malden, Middlesex, Ma.

Generation 4

8. Philip Jonathan West: born 23 Sep 1868 in Upton, Oxford, Me;
 married 25 May 1894 in New Hampshire; died 5 Nov 1954 in
Wilsons Mills, Oxford, Me.

9. Clara J. Ellingwood: born 6 Mar 1865 in Dummer, Coos, N.H.;
died 10 Apr 1901 in Augusta, Kennebec, Me..

10. Frank W. Barker: born 20 Apr 1865 in Albany, Oxford, Me;
married 16 Oct 1898 in Nh; died 21 May 1905 in Bethel, Oxford, Me..

11. Charlot Lovenia Barker: born 3 Aug 1879 in Albany, Oxford, Me.;
 died 1944 in  Bangor, Penobscot, Me.

12. Edward J. White: born 15 May 1873 in Boston, Suffolk Ma;
 married 27 Nov 1895 in  Boston, Suffolk, Ma..

13. Pauline Offinger: born 17 Dec 1873 in  Massachusetts.

14. John McFarland: born 28 Nov 1852 in Ireland; married 16 May 1879
 in Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.; died 3 Aug 1924 in Boston, Suffolk, Ma..

15. Ann Kelly: born 1 Oct 1859 in Kiltrustan, Roscommon, Ire; died
 15 Feb 1945 in Boston, Suffolk  Ma

Generation 5

16. Jonathan Phelps West: born 16 Jan 1834 in Letter B Plantation
(now Upton), Me.;  married 31 Jan 1865; died 8 Jul 1917 in Upton,
Oxford, Me.

17. Louisa Almata Richardson: born 23 Jun 1837 in Wilton, Me;
died 4 Oct 1925 in Upton, Me.

18. Asa Freeman Ellingwood: born 4 Apr 1828 in Milan Hill, Coos, Nh.;
 married 10 Aug 1850 in Woodstock, Oxford, Me.; died 11 Mar 1921 in
 North Paris, Oxford, Me..

19. Florilla Dunham: born 29 Aug 1832 in North Paris, Oxford, Me;
died 21 Feb 1917 in Paris, Oxford, Me.

20. Nathaniel S. Barker: born 13 Mar 1830 in Newry, Oxford, Me.;
died 20 Mar 1884 in Albany, Oxford, Me.

21. Lucy E. Coburn: born 10 Aug 1842 in Maine; died 15 Nov 1904
 in Albany, Oxford, Me.

22. Amos Hasting Barker: born 19 Nov 1828 in Rumford, Oxford, Me;
died 5 Nov 1907 in Bethel, Oxford, Me.

23. Betsey Jane Moore: born 16 Aug 1842 in Waterford Oxford, Me.;
 died 12 Mar 1924 in  Newry, Oxford, Me

24. Patrick G. White: born Mar 1844 in Massachusetts.

25. Mary Powers: born 1848 in Nova Scotia.

26. Charles J. Offinger: born abt 1848 in Wuerttemberg, Germany;
 died 17 Jul 1881 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Ma.

27. Johanna C. Luick: born May 1844 in Wurtemburg, Germany;
died 14 Aug 1908 in Boston, Suffolk, Ma.

28. Michael McFarland.

29. Nora .

30. Patrick Kelly: born abt 1829 in Roscommon, Ireland; married
 12 Feb 1854 in Strokestown, Roscommon, Ireland; died 19 Dec 1886
 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.

31. Anne Byrne: born 1831 in Ireland; died 9 Jul 1900 in Edinburgh,
Midlothian, Scotland.

Generation 6

32. John Cutter West: born 8 Oct 1802 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Ma.;
 married 23 Sep 1827 in  Sumner, Oxford, Me.; died 24 Jul 1862 in
 Upton, Oxford, Me.

33. Arvilla S. Ames: born 25 Jan 1810 in Livermore, Androscoggin, Me;
 died 25 Apr 1907 in Hermon, Oxford, Me.

34. Philip Richardson: born abt 1794 in New Hampshire; married
27 Jun 1834 in New Sharon,  Franklin, Me.

35. Esther S. Laughton: born abt 1816 in Maine.

36. John Ellingwood: born 12 Jun 1798 in Bethel Oxford Me.; married
 28 Oct 1819 in Woodstock, Oxford, Me; died 1831 in Milan, Coos, Nh.

37. Rachel Barrows: born 3 Aug 1795 in Paris, Oxford, Me; died 1832.

38. James Thomas Dunham: born 22 Jun 1805 in Hebron, Oxford, Me.;
 died 8 Nov 1888 in  Bangor, Oxford, Me..

39. Sally Houghton: born 1 Nov 1810 in Norway, Oxford, Me;
died 4 Dec 1853 in Paris,  Oxford, Me.

40. Nathaniel Barker: born 31 Jan 1794 in Newry, Oxford. Me;
married 31 Jan 1819 in  Bethel, Oxtord, Me..

41. Hulda Hastings: born 17 Apr 1798 in Bethel, Oxtord, Me.;
 died 7 Jun 1884 in Bethel,  Oxtord, Me..

42. Wesley Coburn: born 27 Feb 1802 in Tyngsboro, Middlesex, Ma;
married 28 Feb 1827  in Newry, Oxford, Maine, USA; died 27 Feb 1877.

43. Lucy Stowe: born 1808 in Maine; died 4 Jan 1855 in Albany, Oxford, Me.

44. Nathaniel Barker: Same as person number 40.

45. Hulda Hastings: Same as person number 41.

46. Cyrus Moore: born 20 Jun 1813 in Waterford, Oxford, Me, ; died 1842
in Albany, Oxford, Me.

47. Hannah Upton: born 28 Mar 1814 in No. Reading, Ma.

48. Edward White.

49. Mary .

50. Thomas Powers.

51. Catherine .

52. Jacob Offinger: born in Germany.

53. Christiana .

54. Christian Luick: born in Bremen, Germany.

55. Christine .

60. Rodger Kelly: born 1795 in Ireland; died 1 Feb 1860 in Edinburgh,
Midlothian, Scotland.

61. Sarah Manion: born abt 1800 in Ireland; died 12 Jun 1863 in Edinburgh,
Midlothian, Scotland.

62. James Byrne: born abt 1810 in Ireland.

63. Ann King: born abt 1810 in Ireland.

Generation 7

66. Jonathan Phelps Ames: born 20 Apr 1781 in Groton, Middlesex, Ma;
married 1807 in Hartford, Oxford, Me; died 16 Dec 1863 in Canton, Oxford, Me.

67. Polley Griffeth: born 30 Nov 1785 in Newfane, Windham Co., Vt;
 died 13 Jan 1834 in  Hartford, Oxford Co., Me.

68. Philip Peirce Richardson: married 18 Nov 1794 in Pembroke, Merrimack, Nh..

69. Lydia Dow: born abt 1770 in Chester, Rockingham, NH; died 7 Jan 1814 in
Wilton, Franklin, Me..

70. John Laughton: born 6 Jun 1790 in Norridgewock, Somerset, Me.; married
18 Nov 1811 in Mercer, Somerset, Me..


71. Amata Greenleaf: born 1 Sep 1791 in Mercer, Somerset, Me.; died 31 Aug 1840.

72. John Ellingwood: born 19 Sep 1765 in Amherst NH; married 29 Dec 1798; died
19 Jun 1847 in Bethel Oxford Me..

73. Zerviah Abbott: born 19 Mar 1768 in Andover, Essex, Ma.; died 18 Oct 1847 in
Bethel, Oxford, Me..

74. Asa Barrows: born 28 Jul 1751 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Ma; married 12 Feb 1781;
 died 13 Sep 1850 in Woodstock, Oxford, Me..

75. Content Benson: born 1761 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Ma; died 1835 in Bethel,
 Oxford, Me..

76. James Thomas Dunham: born 25 May 1775 in Carver, Plymouth, Ma; married
30 Apr 1799 in Hebron, Oxford, Me.; died 5 Dec 1865 in Hebron, Oxford, Me.

77. Cynthia Packard: born 29 Aug 1780 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Ma; died
16 Aug 1862 in Hebron, Oxford, Me.

78. Moses Houghton: born 22 Mar 1781 in Fitchburg, Worcester, MA; married
18 Oct 1803 in Harvard, Worcester, MA; died 31 Oct 1847 in Woodstock, Oxford, Me.

79. Martha Haskell: born 15 Feb 1780 in Harvard, Worcester, MA; died 14 Apr 1823
in Norway, Oxford Me.

80. Jonathan Barker: born 26 May 1754 in Methuen, Essex, Ma.; married 18 Jun 1788
 in Acton, Middlesex, Ma; died 11 Jul 1824 in Newry, Oxford, Me..

81. Nancy Swan: born 22 Sep 1765 in Methuen, Essex, Ma..

82. Amos Hastings: born 3 Feb 1757 in Haverhill, Essex, Ma; married 10 Sep 1778 in
Haverhill, Essex, Ma; died 28 Jul 1829 in Bethel, Oxford, Me..

83. Elizabeth Wiley: born 1755 in Methuen, Essex, Ma.; died 12 May 1846 in
Bethel, Oxford, Me.

84. Moses Coburn: born 24 Nov 1765 in Tyngsboro, Middlesex, Ma; married
27 Jul 1794 in Tyngsborough, Middlesex, Ma; died 4 May 1847 in Newry, Oxford, Me..

85. Esther Spaulding: born 16 Sep 1769 in Pelham, Hillsboro, Nh; died 13 Feb 1849.

86. Melvin Stowe: born 6 Jul 1774 in Sherborn, Middlesex, Ma.; died 6 Apr 1839 in
 Newry, Oxford, Me..

87. Anne UNK.

92. Stephen Moore: born 1790 in Stowe, Middlesex, Ma ; died in
Waterford, Oxford, Me

93. Permale .

94. Francis Upton: born 24 Feb 1772 in No. Reading, Ma; married 1800.

95. Sally (Sarah) Bancroft: born 8 Jul 1783 in Norway, Oxford, Me; died in
 Albany, Oxford, Me.

THE ANCESTORS' GENEAMEME

 
Geniaus has come up with a new geneameme, The Ancestors' Geneameme
and the instructions to fill in the information are as follow:

Things I have already done or found: bold face type
Things I would like to do or find: italicize (colour optional)
Things I haven’t done or found and don’t care to: plain type

 Can name my 16 great-great-grandparents (I'm missing the last name of
2x great grandfather Michael McFarland's wife Nora)
 Can name over 50 direct ancestors
 Have photographs or portraits of my 8 great-grandparents
 Have an ancestor who was married more than three times
 Have an ancestor who was a bigamist
 Met all four of my grandparents (Never met my Mom's father)
 Met one or more of my great-grandparents   
 Named a child after an ancestor 
 Bear an ancestor's given name/s 
 Have an ancestor from Great Britain or Ireland  (Many)
 Have an ancestor from Africa 
 Have an ancestor from Asia
 Have an ancestor from Continental Europe (Germany)
 Have an ancestor who was an agricultural labourer
 Have an ancestor who had large land holdings
 Have an ancestor who was a holy man - minister, priest, rabbi
 Have an ancestor who was a midwife
 Have an ancestor who was an author
 Have an ancestor with the surname Smith, Murphy or Jones
 Have an ancestor with the surname Wong, Kim, Suzuki or Ng
 Have an ancestor with a surname beginning with X 
 Have an ancestor with a forename beginnining with Z  (Zerviahs Holt & Abbott)
 Have an ancestor born on 25th December
 Have an ancestor born on New Year's Day
 Have blue blood in your family lines   
 Have a parent who was born in a country different from my country of birth
 Have a grandparent who was born in a country different from my country of birth
 Can trace a direct family line back to the eighteenth century
 Can trace a direct family line back to the seventeenth century or earlier 
 Have seen copies of the signatures of some of my great-grandparents
 Have ancestors who signed their marriage certificate with an X  
 Have a grandparent or earlier ancestor who went to university
 Have an ancestor who was convicted of a criminal offence
 Have an ancestor who was a victim of crime 
 Have shared an ancestor's story online or in a magazine
 Have published a family history online or in print
 Have visited an ancestor's home from the 19th or earlier centuries  
 Still have an ancestor's home from the 19th or earlier centuries in the family
 Have a  family bible from the 19th Century
 Have a pre-19th century family bible

Some of the things that I haven't done are simply things I can't do for
various reasons even if I wanted to do them, like meeting all four of
my grandparents.

Another interesting meme! Thanks, Geniaus!

THE THIRD ANNUAL GREAT GENEALOGY POETRY CHALLENGE

It's time once again for the Great Genealogy Poetry Challenge. Those
who are long time readers of my blog will notice I've changed the
title of the challenge from The Great American Genealogy Poetry &
Song Challenge to The Great Genealogy Poetry Challenge. I made the
change for two reasons:

One, to include geneabloggers from other countries  and two, it's a
danged lot easier to type out!

What hasn't changed are the rules,. so I can be lazy and cut and paste
a nice chunk from last year:

So, my challenge to my readers is this:

1. Find a poem by a local poet, famous or obscure, from the region
one of your ancestors lived in. It can be about an historical event, a
legend, a person, or even about some place (like a river)or a local
animal. It can even be a poem you or one of your ancestors have written!
Or if you prefer, post the lyrics of a song or a link to a video
of someone performing the song.


2. Post the poem or song to your blog (remembering to cite the source
where you found it.)

3.Tell us how the subject of the poem or song relates to your ancestor's
home or life.

4.Submit your post's link here to me by November 20thth and I'll publish
all the entries on Thanksgiving Day, November 24th!

If  you submit a humorous poem or song that will be entered under the
"Willy Puckerbrush" division. Willy was the late geneablogger Terry
Thornton's alias for some humorous posts and comments.



So there you have it. There's over a month until the deadline so there's
plenty of time for a Google search for poems and songs. I'm looking
forward to seeing what the geneablogging community comes up with
for me this year!

A HOLT OF MY FAMILY TREE

After my last post about spotting a reference to my ancestor Nicholas
Holt on television last night, I wanted to do a post on just how he
figures into my family tree. It's another case of where two of his
descendants ended up marrying each other, in this case, my paternal
great great grandparents Asa Freeman Ellingwood and Florilla Dunham.

Here's a relationship chart first for Asa and Nicholas:

As you can see, Asa had a double line of descent from Nicholas Holt. first
through daughter Elizabeth Holt who married Ralph Farham(Farnum)II,
and then through Zerviah Holt. Zerviah was Nicholas' granddaughter through
his son Henry. who was eight years younger than sister Elizabeth.

Florilla Dunham was descended from Nicholas' son Henry:

Now the Holts, Abbotts, Ballards and Farnhams were among the original
settlers of Andover, Ma.(I blogged a bit about this once before here two
years ago) and the small population resulted in quite a few connections
between those founding families. The same situation occurred a few generations
later when Revolutionary War veterans from Essex County Massachusetts
took land grants in Oxford County Maine.

In the case of Asa and Florilla, they were double cousins through the Holt
ancestry: fifth cousins through Henry Holt and Sarah Ballard, and sixth
cousins once removed through Nicholas Holt and Elizabeth Short. They
were also fifth cousins through a mutual descent from Ralph Ellingwood:

While I've done work on the Abbott and Ellingwood branches of my family
tree, I haven't done as much on the others, so I expect that to be the next
area I concentrate my research on!

MY ANCESTOR ON TV.

Earlier tonight I was watching the Chronicle program on WCVB Channel

5 in Boston. It often does shows on the out of the way and little known

places in New England and tonight the entire half hour was devoted to 

the Bay Circuit Trail, a 200 mile long network that runs around the outskirts

of Boston from Newburyport on the North Shore to Duxbury on the

South Shore. Since I have gotten  into taking long walks I'm always looking

for new places to go and take photos so I watched the show in hopes of

picking up a few suggestions for places on this end.

Then the narrator said four words, "Holt Hill in Andover" and  the genealogist

side of me focused. In turns out that the highest point in Essex County in 

Massachusetts is Holt's Hill, located in the Ward Reservation in Andover.

They showed a shot of an old house with a sign on it with the name "Nicholas

Holt"

Nicholas Holt of Andover is my 9x great grandfather.   

The Hill has a beautiful view of the area and there's Solstice Stones at the 

summit of the Hill, You can see a shot of them at the Ward Reservation

website.

While I was googling about Holt Hill I also found the Early Records of the

Holt Family of Andover - Annotated   site.That should prove very 

helpful in my research.

It just goes to show that you never can tell where an ancestor will turn up!.

REVOLUTIONARY RANT

It's part of my morning routine now to check in at Facebook and read my
friends' updates as I eat breakfast. I have a diverse group of relatives, former
fellow employees, high school classmates and fellow genealogists on my
Friends List so there's always something interesting to read.  This morning
there were three u pdates though, that have me in a high dudgeon.

The first two were links from Marian Pierre-Louis to a pair of stories about
historic houses slated for demolition. The first is the century old Tappan
House in Attleboro that is going to be torn down now that plans to move it
have fallen through. The hospital that owns the property may use it as, yes,
as the song says, a parking lot.

The second doomed house is a 275 year old building with historic importance
to the African American community of Paramus NJ. A lawsuit to block its
destruction was dismissed by a judge and developers plan to destroy the
house in order to construct two new buildings on the property.

It always dismays me to see local historical landmarks bulldozed in the name
of "progress". Let's be honest here, progress has nothing to do with it.It's a
matter of convenience and money. It's convenient not to spend money to move
a building to preserve it. Destroying a house to put up two more in its place
means someone is going to make more money.

As the Church Lady might say, "Well, isn't that convenient?"

It was the third update that really got me riled up, though. Heather Wilkinson
Rojo posted a link to a commentary  by conservative talk-show host Michael
Graham about the "rebranding" of the Munroe Family Tavern at Lexington Green
in Lexington, Ma. The Tavern recently underwent a major renovation and has
reopened as The Munroe Tavern: Museum of the British Redcoats and Munroe
Family Home and Mr Graham objects to it. Now anyone who reads my Facebook
feed knows I'm a liberal Democrat, but Lord help me, I'm in agreement with
Mr Graham. I'm also in agreement with Heather, who is a Munroe family descendant
and is dismayed at what thisd renovation has doen to her ancestors' home.

Looking at that new name given the building by the Lexington Historical Society
might give you a hint at what has happened: the Munroe Tavern has been turned into
a museum centered on the British Redcoats. The Munroe family now takes second
billing in their own home, the home owned by their family right up until 1911 when
it was donated to the Lexington Historical Society. Up until now it has been devoted
to  exhibiting 18th century family life using Muroe family artifacts and heirlooms in
the exhibits.

Now the emphasis is to tell the story of the British Redcoats, the very same men
who killed the caretaker of the Tavern and then tried to burn it to the ground.
The family items are now in storage.

As a historian and genealogist, this angers me.  One has to wonder how the Munroe
family might feel today to see how the house they donated is now devoted to the
men who tried to destroy it? Not only that, they now are given second billing on the
sign outside the building, an afterthought to the main attraction.

Yes, I said attraction, because that's what the Munroe Tavern now is, a tourist
attraction. Let's face it, a museum about the British Redcoats is much more
attractive to tourists than one about some family (and that should be read
with the sarcasm with which I would say it aloud.) I don't know if they've set
up a gift shop in it yet but I'm sure there will eventually be one selling Redcoat
hats and plastic swords and other doodads. As in the case of the two buildings
that are going to be destroyed, money will be made

Now you might say that isn't as bad a the two other buildings, and you are
right on one level. But on another, history is being destroyed here by the
"rebranding" of it by the Society The cynic in me questions the objectivity
of the rebranding when one of the past presidents of the Society is a member
of a Redcoat recreation  group. It also wonders at where the matching private
donations came from for it,.

I'm a historian, and a genealogist, and I'm glad to see old buildings renovated
instead of  destroyed.

But I'm pretty sure that my Revolutionary War ancestors would be disappointed
in me if I didn't stand up and say that this rebranding of the Munroe Tavern is
just wrong! A better balance could have been struck here.

You can express your opinion to the Lexington Historical Society by visiting
this site:
http://lhsoc.weebly.com/how-to-contact-us.html


Heather Wilkinson Rojo's reaction to the changes at her ancestors' home can
be read here at Nutfield Genealogy

SATURDAY NIGHT GENEALOGY FUN: MY GENEALOGY DATABASE STATISTICS

It's Saturday Night and time for Randy Seaver's Saturday Night

Genealogy Fun. This week, the exercise is: 


1)  If you have your family tree research in a Genealogy Management Program 
(GMP), whether a computer software program or an online family tree, figure 
out how to find how many persons, places, sources, etc. are in your database 
(hint:  the Help button is your friend!).

2)  Tell us which GMP you use, and how many persons, places, sources, etc. 
are in your database(s) today in a blog post of your own, in a comment to this
blog post, or in a Facebook status or Google+ stream comment.



I use several different programs. I use Ancestry.com for my online
research and periodically download the gedcom to RootsMagic4. At
present the RootsMagic4 stats are:



People: 25971
Families: 6242
Events: 73557
Alternate Names: 11
Places:10188
Sources:168
Citations: 17883
Repositories: 6
To-Do tasks: 0
Multimedia items: 0
Multimedia links: 0
Addresses: 0
Correspondence: 0
This is based on the last download on July 1 2011. At present, the
Ancestry.com tree People count stands at 26598 and Records at
7099 so the RootsMagic 4 data will be going up when I do my next
download in December.

A "T CHART" FOR CALEB COBURN PT3

Before I go into the Federal Censuses I've found for Caleb Coburn, here's
the page for him from The Descendants of Edward Colburn (p48):

Notice the entry following Caleb for his brother Abiel.

This is the image from the 1790 Census for Tyngsborough, Ma.There
is only one Caleb Coburn on this Census and the presence of Reuben
Butterfield is significant since Caleb's brother married the daughter of a
Reuben Butterfield..Notice how the town of Dunstable has been changed
to Tyngsborough:

What I hadn't done when I found this document was pay attention to the other
members of the household. There is a male under 16 years old and 3 females
living with Caleb. Caleb's son Moses Coburn was my ancestor and was already
25 years old in 1790. Who was this young boy?

On the 1800 Census there is again only one Caleb Coburn. On the same page
I found an Abiel Coburn. Again, there are additional members of Caleb's household
that I hadn't paid attention to up until now. The boy is gone, either deceased or grown
and out on his own. There are still three females, one between age 10 to 15, one
between 15 and 25, and one over age 45.

By 1810 the household is reduced to Caleb, one female between 16 to 25 years
old and one 45 years or older:

When I found these records on Ancestry,com I was just starting to really dig
into researching my family. I took a two week trial with Ancestry and grabbed
any records I could find as fast as I could before the two weeks were up. While
I spent more time examining the records for the generations a bit closer to me,
I only recently began to analyzing the older ones. Back then, for example,
I assumed that Caleb only had one child, Moses, because I couldn't find a record
of any other. I went back to the Early Vital Records of Massachusetts site to see
if I could find the births or marriages of daughters of Caleb Coburn but was
unsuccessful.

But I did find something I had missed before, the possible date of death for Caleb
and perhaps the answer to the mystery of the boy from the 1790 Federal Census.
From Vol 1, p97 of the Tyngsborough Vital Records I found the following:
    Caleb, s. Caleb, Apr. 3, 1798. PR1
    Caleb, Dec. 17, 1810, a. 72 y. PR1

(Fellow SL genealogist DeeDee Nelson found the same information
 elsewhere while I was writing this post. Thanks DeeDee!)

I know Caleb was born in 1738 so he would have indeed been 72 years
old in 1810, so there's  a good chance that 17Dec 1810 is indeed his
death date. The other Caleb might be a younger son, but I need more
to be confident about that. What I need to find now is a will or a deed
that lists members of Caleb's family, or find Caleb's grave and check for
other Coburn's buried nearby. In otherwords, I know I need to look
beyond the Internet. I also need to keep the "genealogy of place" in
mind and look beyond Tyngsborough to the surrounding towns.( including
across the state line to Pelham which once was part of Tyngsborough).


All in all, I found the "t chart" a useful tool to break down what I'd found on
Caleb Colburn and help me analyze it more rather than just gathering it. I plan
to use it on others of my ancestors.

And thanks to Dear Myrt aka Clarisse for conducting the book review session
of Val Greenwood's book over at Second Life!


 

THE TYPE OF TREE MY FAMILY TREE IS,,,,

The topic for this next edition of the Carnival of Genealogy is what type of
real tree best represents my family history. I had a hard time thinking of what
tree might fill the bill, because while I like take pictures of trees, I'll be danged
if I culd tell you what type of tree I'm pointing my camera at.
But another thing I like to do is write, and as a writer I know that words and
phrases often can mean more than one thing.

So what type of tree represents my family history? I could have picked a
tall pine tree, because of the generations of New Englanders that stretch back
to the Mayflower on my Dad's side. But that's only half the story, because I'm
Irish and German 19th century immigrants on my Mom's side and I don't know
much about those families once I get past my Mom's grandparents. If I take that
lack of knowledge into consideration, then I have a different picture of a tree
in my mind. Have you ever driven down the street and seen where the telephone
company has  trimmed the tree branches back from the line? The side of the tree
away from the line is full and untouched while the side closest to the street has
large gaps cut away from it?  That might be a good representation of my family
history.    

There's another type of tree that came to mind but this one reminds me more
of the process of researching the family tree rather than the tree itself:

Somewhere behind all that is a tree. I was lucky; my Aunt Dorothy had already
 found a lot of the tree before I started working on it. The trick is doing it
carefully, knowing which  leaf is actually part of the tree and which belongs to
the other plants. It has to be done with care, you can't just chop and rip away.
It's a work in progress and eventually, if I do it right, I'll end up with a tree that
looks like this:

A "T CHART" FOR CALEB COBURN PT2

As I said previously, I don't know a heck of a lot about Caleb Coburn. Well,
I do know a bit more than some people know about some of their ancestors.
I found his DOB on the Early Vital Records of Massachusetts website which
contains images from the famous "Tan Books" transcriptions of the town
records. Interestingly, there appears to have been some damage to the
record because the transcription reads "(---)leb" .

There's a gap between that first fact and the second, the birth of Caleb's son
Moses Coburn in Dracut, Ma. in 1765. That's because there's apparently
no record of the name of Caleb's wife. Now I'm well aware that not everything
can be found online and there are a lot of records that can be found only at
town halls and courthouses. But even in the age before computers there were
other researchers who had no luck discovering the identity of Caleb Coburn's
wife and Moses' Coburn's mother.  Last year I blogged about how the co-authors 
of "Genealogy of the Descendants of Edward Colburn/Coburn"  dealt with
it almost a century ago in 1913. They simply wrote:

"Caleb Coburn(Moses 3 Joseph2 Edward1) was born in Dracut December
12, 1738; he married ________ ____________; they dwelt at Tyngsboro."
(p48)

But looking at the T chart I did some figuring. Caleb would have been 26 or 27
years old when Moses was born. I guessed Caleb would have been 16 years old
or older when he married the mystery wife, so that would mean that the marriage
would have taken place sometime between 1755 and 1765.

In his book Val Greenwood talks about the importance of knowing the genealogy
of places(p61) because the boundaries of early American towns and counties
shifted so much which would effect where records might be kept at different
times. Tyngsborough is a perfectr example of this. It used to be part of the
town of  Dunstable but split off as a seperate area in 1789 before becoming
an actual town in 1809. Also, in colonial times in Massachusetts it was not
unusual for a person's birth or marriage to be recorded not only in the town
they were born in but also in the town their parents were born, which in this
case would still have been Dracut. I'd already checked the records at Early
Vital Records of Massachusetts for Dracat, Dunstable and Tyngsborough for
any mention of Caleb's marriage. I also checked for the record of Moses
Coburn's birth in hopes it would list the name of his mother but that didn't
pan out either.

I'll talk about what the Censuses of 1790, 1800, and 1810 told me next 
in part 3 here

A "T CHART" FOR CALEB COBURN

The Genealogists in Second Life have started a Just Genealogy Book Club  and
we're working through  Val D. Greenwood's  The Researcher's Guide to
American Gednealogy, 3rd Edition (Genealogical Publishing Co. 2000) and I'm
finding it very informative. This past week we covered the chapters on
"Analyzing Pedigree and the Place" and "Evaluation of Evidence"(chapters
4 & 5). In the section on Pedigree Analysis Mr Greenwood suggested using
what he calls a "Tchart". Basically you draw a line down the center of the
piece of paper and one side label "What do I already know" and "What does
this suggest?"  I decided I'd like to try that out.

I chose 5x greatgrandfather Caleb Coburn as my guinea pig.(Forgive me,
Grandpa Caleb!). Then I wasted an hour or so hunting around for a two column
template I could use on one of my word processor programs. When that
failed, I tried making one from scratch which wasted more time. Finally I gave
up and went back to basics, pen and paper. So be warned: this isn't the
prettiest graphic you'll ever see:

I chose Caleb because I hadn't found a death date for him nor have I ever found
the name of his wife. I printed his name at the top of the page and included all
the various spellings I've encountered for Coburn, and then started listing on the
left side of the page what I already knew : his birth in Dracut, Ma on 12 Dec 1738,
the birth of his son Moses in Tyngsborough,  Ma in 1765  and where he was
enumerated on the 1790, 1800, and 1810 Federal Census. There was also a
Caleb Coburn enumerated on the 1820 Fishersfield Nh Federal Census but I
had questions about that one.(which may account for my mangling the name of the
town in my list)

And of course, he died,  (Unless Caleb was an immortal vampire or alien)  but
I'd found no date or place for that as of yet.

So, what did that all this suggest? As you can see, initally, not a heck of lot. But
we'll get to that next post,

DOUBLY CONNECTED

I received a series of emails from my West cousin Yvonne out in Washington
state tonight. She's my 3rd cousin once removed, descended from my 3x
greatgranduncle Leonidas West who decided to take his last name literally
and moved west. Anyway, Yvonne has been going through some of her
grandmother's things, among which was a pocketbook which contained
handwritten records of family births, deaths, and marriages. These are
going to be very helpful in filling in some information on my tree, but one
sheet in particular, the first, held a surprise.

 Yvonne's grandmother was Ethel Alvina Hope. Up until now I hadn't done
an research on her because I've been wrapped up in my own direct and
collateral lines. But according to this list, her grandparents were Orville
Clapp and Lydia Colburn. Now I have Colburns/Coburns on my Dad's
maternal line; one of his great grandmothers had been Elizabeth Coburn
who'd married Nathaniel S. Barker in Oxford County Me. and who was
descended from Edward Colborne and Hannah Rolfe of Ipswich, Ma.
I noticed on Yvonne's image that this Lydia Colburn was born in Vermont
so she came from the right neck of the woods, as they say. So was she also
descended from Edward Colborne?

Long story short: yes, she was. My line is from Edward Colborne's son Joseph.
Lydia Colburn(and cousin Yvonne) are descendants of another son, Robert, or
so a preliminary search indicates. By now I'm used to finding connections from
one family line to another in my Dad's family tree. New England is a small place
and there was a small population in Western Maine for many years so it is to be
expected that there would be a lot of instances of marriage between families.

What makes this one fun to discover is that this link between the two sides of
my Dad's family happened not in Maine but out in Spencer Brook, Minnesota.
Orville Clapp was from Canada, and Lydia Colburn from Vermont. But many
New Englanders, like Leonidas West, had migrated out to Minnesota to work
either as farmers or as lumbermen.

 I'm wonder where Ethel Alvinia Hope got her information. Judging by the headings
on the other pages(Register of Births, Register of Deaths, Register of Marriages) I'm
guessing she copied it from family bibles. I'm certainly glad that Yvonne discovered
these papers, because now we know we  have a double cousin connection!

ABINGTON (MA.)HIGH CLASS OF `66 45TH REUNION

Earlier this year my brother in law Pete asked me if I wanted to come along
to a meeting of the Abington (Ma.) High School Class of 1966 45th Reunion
committee.

Now, I hadn't been to any of our previous reunions. I'd been a sophomore
when my family moved out of Boston down here to the suburbs so I was the
new kid in school that year.  And our house was on the southern edge of
town so there weren't many of my classmates nearby to socialize with. In
fact, part of our backyard was actually over the town line in Whitman so
I hung out with kids from there. I really didn't have time to develop more
than a few friends  in the three year span before graduation, (and one,
Pete, eventually married my sister Cheryl.) So I hadn't gone to any of the
previous class reunions.

I'm glad Pete asked me if I wanted to go to the meeting and that I said yes.
There were a dozen of us who met once a month to go over the class list
to see which  addresses we had, which ones had changed or which classmates
had passed on, and to discuss the specifics of where, when, and how much.
We set up a production line to stuff envelopes with newsletters and stick
address labels on them. And before, during, and after that process there
was a lot of enjoyable  conversations.

The Reunion was held a week ago Saturday and it was a very good time. I had
a lot of fun seeing old classmates and judging from the laughter  and animated
conversations going on all around that function room at the Town House every
one else had a great time, too.  When we are kids we tend to have groups and
cliques but there was none of that division there that night. We all enjoyed
each other's company.

There was a Reunion breakfast at Jeff and Mary Lou's house the next day which
was fun and delicious and a great way to cap off the weekend.

I want to thank the members of the Reunion Committee for all the laughs, and
the good food, and  the chance to hang out with you all,and a special thanks to
Pete for bringing me along to that first meeting.

To my fellow classmates, I hope to see you all again in five years, and to those
who didn't attend this time, please joins us for our 50th Reunion in 2016!

I'M IN THE MOOD FOR MEMES

Since it seems that I'm in the mood for memes(hmm...sounds like a good
title for a song..."I'm in the moood for memes, simply because I'm
blogging....fummy how when I'm blogging...I'm in the mooood for memes!")
I thought I'd do the "99 genealogy Things Meme" that Becky over at the
Kinnexions blog created.

Here are the rules:
The list should be annotated in the following manner:
Things you have already done or found: bold face type
Things you would like to do or find: italicize (color optional)
Things you haven’t done or found and don’t care to: plain type

   1. Belong to a genealogical society.
   2. Researched records onsite at a court house.
   3. Transcribed records.
   4. Uploaded tombstone pictures to Find-A-Grave.
   5. Documented ancestors for four generations (self, parents, grandparents, great-grandparents).
   6. Joined Facebook.
   7. Helped to clean up a run-down cemetery.
   8. Joined the Genea-Bloggers Group on Facebook.
   9. Attended a genealogy conference.
  10. Lectured at a genealogy conference.
  11. Spoke on a genealogy topic at a local genealogy society.
  12. Been the editor of a genealogy society newsletter.
  13. Contributed to a genealogy society publication.
  14. Served on the board or as an officer of a genealogy society.
  15. Got lost on the way to a cemetery.
  16. Talked to dead ancestors. (well, in my head I have..)
  17. Researched outside the state in which I live.
  18. Knocked on the door of an ancestral home and visited with the current occupants.
  19. Cold called a distant relative.
  20. Posted messages on a surname message board.
  21. Uploaded a gedcom file to the internet.
  22. Googled my name.
  23. Performed a random act of genealogical kindness.
  24. Researched a non-related family, just for the fun of it.
  25. Have been paid to do genealogical research.
  26. Earn a living (majority of income) from genealogical research.
  27. Wrote a letter (or email) to a previously unknown relative.
  28. Contributed to one of the genealogy carnivals.
  29. Responded to messages on a message board or forum.
  30. Was injured while on a genealogy excursion.
  31. Participated in a genealogy meme.
  32. Created family history gift items (calendars, cookbooks, etc.).
  33. Performed a record lookup for someone else.
  34. Went on a genealogy seminar cruise.
  35. Am convinced that a relative must have arrived here from outer space.
  36. Found a disturbing family secret.
  37. Told others about a disturbing family secret.
  38. Combined genealogy with crafts (family picture quilt, scrapbooking).
  39. Think genealogy is a passion not a hobby.
  40. Assisted finding next of kin for a deceased person (Unclaimed Persons).
  41. Taught someone else how to find their roots.
  42. Lost valuable genealogy data due to a computer crash or hard drive failure.
  43. Been overwhelmed by available genealogy technology.
  44. Know a cousin of the 4th degree or higher.
  45. Disproved a family myth through research.
  46. Got a family member to let you copy photos.
  47. Used a digital camera to “copy” photos or records.
  48. Translated a record from a foreign language.
  49. Found an immigrant ancestor’s passenger arrival record.
  50. Looked at census records on microfilm, not on the computer.
  51. Used microfiche.
  52. Visited the Family History Library in Salt Lake City (May/June 2011).
  53. Visited more than one LDS Family History Center.
  54. Visited a church or place of worship of one of your ancestors.
  55. Taught a class in genealogy.
  56. Traced ancestors back to the 18th Century.
  57. Traced ancestors back to the 17th Century.
  58. Traced ancestors back to the 16th Century.
  59. Can n ame all of your great-great-grandparents.
  60. Found an ancestor’s Social Security application.
  61. Know how to determine a soundex code without the help of a computer.
  62. Used Steve Morse’s One-Step searches.
  63. Own a copy of Evidence Explained by Elizabeth Shown Mills.
  64. Helped someone find an ancestor using records you had never used for your own research.
  65. Visited the main National Archives building in Washington, DC.
  66. Visited the Library of Congress.
  67. Have an ancestor who came over on the Mayflower.
  68. Have an ancestor who fought in the Civil War.
  69. Taken a photograph of an ancestor’s tombstone.
  70. Became a member of the Association of Graveyard Rabbits.
  71. Can read a church record in Latin.
  72. Have an ancestor who changed their name.
  73. Joined a Rootsweb mailing list.
  74. Created a family website.
  75. Have more than one "genealogy" blog.
  76. Was overwhelmed by the amount of family information received from someone.
  77. Have broken through at least one brick wall
  78. Visited the DAR Library in Washington D.C.
  79. Borrowed a microfilm from the Family History Library through a local Family History Center.
  80. Have done indexing for Family Search Indexing or another genealogy project.
  81. Visited the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
  82. Had an amazing serendipitous find of the "Psychic Roots" variety.
  83. Have an ancestor who was a Patriot in the American Revolutionary War.
  84. Have an ancestor who was a Loyalist in the American Revolutionary War.
  85. Have both Patriot & Loyalist ancestors.
  86. Have used Border Crossing records to locate an ancestor.
  87. Use maps in my genealogy research.
  88. Have a convict ancestor who was transported from the UK.
  89. Found a bigamist amongst the ancestors.
  90. Visited the National Archives in Kew.
  91. Visited St. Catherine's House in London to find family records.
  92. Found a cousin in Australia (or other foreign country).
  93. Consistently cite my sources.
  94. Visited a foreign country (i.e. one I don't live in) in search of ancestors.
  95. Can locate any document in my research files within a few minutes.
  96. Have an ancestor who was married four times (or more).
  97. Made a rubbing of an ancestors gravestone.
  98. Organized a family reunion.
  99. Published a family history book (on one of my families).
 100. Learned of the death of a fairly close relative through research.
 101. Have done the genealogy happy dance.
 102. Sustained an injury doing the genealogy happy dance.
 103. Offended a family member with my research.
 104. Reunited someone with precious family photos or artifacts.

THE TECH-SAVVY GENEALOGY MEME:OLD FUDDYDUDDY EDITION

A new meme was recently started by Australian geneablogger Geniaus
to show just how tech savvy a genealogist you might be. Originally there
were 50 items on the list but geneablogger John Newmark added 30
more. I hadn't taken part yet because frankly I'm not all that techsavvy
(as you'll see) but I decided to finally try it and see just what I do know
how to do.

One of the things I do know how to do is cut & paste.Which is what I
did from Randy Seaver's Genea-Musings, including the explanation for
the asterisks:

John's additions were intermingled so the numbering has changed, 
though they are denoted by an asterisk  (*) below


The list should be annotated in the following manner:
Things you have already done or found: bold face type

Things you would like to do or find: italicize (colour optional)

Things you haven’t done or found and don’t care to: plain type



1. Own an Android or Windows tablet or an iPad
2. Use a tablet or iPad for genealogy related purposes
*3. Use a Kindle, Nook, or other e-reader for genealogy related purposes
4. Have used Skype or Google Video Chat to for genealogy purposes
5. Have used a camera to capture images in a library/archives/ancestor's home
6. Use a genealogy software program on your computer to manage your family tree
*7. Use multiple genealogy software programs because they each have different functionalities.
8. Have a Twitter account
9. Tweet daily
10. Have a genealogy blog
11. Have more than one genealogy blog
12. Have lectured/presented to a genealogy group on a technology topic
13. Currently an active member of Genealogy Wise
14. Have a Facebook Account
15. Have connected with genealogists via Facebook
16. Maintain a genealogy related Facebook Page
17. Maintain a blog or website for a genealogy society
18. Have submitted text corrections online to Ancestry, Trove or a similar site
*19. Have added content to a Person Page on Fold3 (formerly Footnote)
20. Have registered a domain name
21. Post regularly to Google+
*22. Have participated in a genealogy-related Google+ hangout
23. Have a blog listed on Geneabloggers
*24. Have a blog listed on Cyndi's List
25. Have transcribed/indexed records for FamilySearch or a similar project
*26. Have converted a family audiotape to digital
*27. Have converted a family videotape to digital
*28. Have converted family movies pre-dating videotape to digital.
29. Own a Flip-Pal or hand-held scanner30. Can code a webpage in .html
*31. Can code a webpage in .html using Notepad (or any other text-only software)
*32. Can write scripts for your webpage in at least one programming language
*33. Can write scripts for your webpage in multiple programming languages
34. Own a smartphone
35. Have a personal subscription to one or more paid genealogy databases*36. Have a local library card that offers you home access to online databases, and you use that access.
37. Use a digital voice recorder to record genealogy lectures
38. Have contributed to a genealogy blog carnival
*39. Have hosted a genealogy blog carnival
40. Use an Internet Browser that didn’t come installed on your computer
41. Have participated in a genealogy webinar
42. Have taken a DNA test for genealogy purposes
43. Have a personal genealogy website
44. Have found mention of an ancestor in an online newspaper archive
45. Have tweeted during a genealogy lecture
*46. Have tweeted during a family reunion
47. Have scanned your hardcopy genealogy files
48. Use an RSS Reader to follow genealogy news and blogs
49. Have uploaded a gedcom file to a site like Geni, MyHeritage or Ancestry
50. Own a netbook
51. Use a computer/tablet/smartphone to take genealogy lecture notes
52. Have a profile on LinkedIn that mentions your genealogy habit
53. Have developed a genealogy software program, app or widget
54. Have listened to a genealogy podcast online
55. Have downloaded genealogy podcasts for later listening
56. Backup your files to a portable hard drive
57. Have a copy of your genealogy files stored offsite
58. Know about RootsTech
59. Have listened to a BlogTalk radio session about genealogy
60. Use Dropbox, SugarSync or other service to save documents in the cloud
61. Schedule regular email backups
62. Have contributed to the FamilySearch Wiki
63. Have scanned and tagged your genealogy photographs
64. Have published a genealogy book in an online/digital format
*65. Brought a USB device to a microfilm repository so you could download instead of print.
*66. Have a wearable USB device containing important files. (Watch, keychain necklace, etc)
*67. Created a map on Google Maps plotting ancestral homes or businesses.
*68. Recorded the GPS coordinates for a tombstone, or ancestral home
*69. Edited the Wikipedia entry for an ancestor, or their kin
*70. Created an entry at FindAGrave for a person
*71. Created an entry at FindAGrave for a cemetery
*72. Uploaded the MediaWiki software (or TikiWiki, or PhpWiki) to your family website.
*73. Have downloaded a video (for genealogical purposes) from YouTube or other streaming video site using KeepVid.com, or in some other fashion
*74. Have transferred a video from a DVR to your computer for genealogical purposes
*75. Have participated in a ScanFest
*76. Have started a Genealogy-related meme at least one other geneablogger participated in.
*77. Have started a Genealogy-related weekly blogging theme other geneabloggers participated in.
*78. Have used Photoshop (or other editing software) to ‘clean up’ an old family photo
*79. Done digital scrapbooking
*80. Printed out a satellite photo from Google Maps of a cemetery, and marked where a tombstone was located on it.