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Thursday, May 31, 2007

OF JAMESTOWN AND PLYMOUTH PART 3

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In the interests of fair play I present the following link which proves that some folks in Plymouth are as guilty of historical inaccuracies...
Monday, May 28, 2007

THE STREETS WHERE THEY LIVED

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Dick Eastman mentioned a new website from Tufts University, Boston Streets and I checked it out. It has historical maps and city directories...
Saturday, May 26, 2007

OF JAMESTOWN AND PLYMOUTH PART 2

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Hmm. My earlier post about Jamestown and Plymouth got this response from Michael Norton at the Jamestown Site blog: “While wrapping up my co...
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Friday, May 25, 2007

JONATHAN ABBOT(T) AND THE ACADIANS

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I mentioned in a post awhile back that I’d found a website with an account of Acadian exiles who were sent to Andover, Ma. after their expul...
Thursday, May 17, 2007

OF JAMESTOWN AND PLYMOUTH

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While eating breakfast and then sorting my laundry I did my occasional Google search on the words `Massachusetts’ and 'history’ and came...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

WAITING ON THE SANDMAN

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I mentioned last week that I’d discovered some information concerning my Abbot(t) ancestors and Acadians in Andover Massachusetts but that I...
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Monday, May 14, 2007

HOW I LEARNED TO RIDE MY BIKE

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There is a legend in my family. When my sister Cheryl read my posts about our family trips up home she asked me if I was going t...
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Thursday, May 10, 2007

SAM ADAMS ON THE MAYFLOWER

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No, it's not an anomaly. The Sam Adams Brewing Company has provided the Mayflower II with a beer that is based on the sort brewed in the...

BEDTIME GENEALOGY 13: ACADIANS IN ANDOVER

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Bedtime genealogy is pretty much as the term sounds. I work on the sales floor of a large bookstore five days a week and my longer sessions ...
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Tuesday, May 08, 2007

GENEALOGY GRUMPING

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I read with interest Randy Seavers’ account of Ancestry.com’s recent dealings with Michael John Neill at rootdig.com over his use of images ...
Sunday, May 06, 2007

GENEALOGY DIGGING

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Sundays are days when I get to spend a bit more time on the genealogy hunt. I’ve been backtracking a bit and adding names of siblings of my ...
Wednesday, May 02, 2007

SCHOOL DAZE

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I’ve been trying to come up with a post for this month’s Carnival of Genealogy and realized that there are stretches of my school life I’ve ...
Tuesday, May 01, 2007

A GRAVE MATTER

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I got an email from Chris Dunham (with whom I share Dunham ancestry) about a news story concerning an interesting discovery up in Maine. The...
Monday, April 30, 2007

APRIL 30th

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Thursday, April 26, 2007

IMAGES OF AMERICA

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The bookstore chain I work for has a Local Interest category and (in what is clearly a case of serendipity for me) I’m the person responsibl...
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Monday, April 23, 2007

GOING UP HOME 4

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This was taken on one of those family trips 'up home'. It was one of the rare ocassions that our family and Aunt Dorothy's visit...
Sunday, April 22, 2007

JOHN AMES(EAMES) AND LYDIA PHELPS

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I mentioned earlier that I’d recently found information that disproves the belief that my ancestress Lydia Phelps was the daughter of Jonath...
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ELVES HUG (FAMILY) TREES

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I’ll have some longer posts later on today(Sunday) but I just thought I’d mention that I bought the new Tolkien book and…..I spent about fiv...
Thursday, April 19, 2007

LOPPING A BRANCH OFF THE FAMILY TREE

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Ouch! It appears I have to do some tree pruning. Several of us climbing our West Family tree have believed that Lydia Phelps, mother of Arvi...
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007

BEDTIME GENEALOGY 12

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Word of the events at Lexington and Concord reached the Essex County expatriates along the St Johns River by late April or early May. Many h...