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Saturday, January 26, 2008

GENEALOGY BRUNCH...WITH FLUTAPHONES

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Today is the 280th anniversary of my 6x great grandparents Jonathan Barker and Mary Abbott. Mary is from a different line than the rest of ...
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Friday, January 25, 2008

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ARVILLA!

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I have some ancestors' birthdays and anniversaries coming up over the next few days, starting with today, which is the 198th birthday o...
Thursday, January 24, 2008

ANOTHER PARADE ENTRY

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Okay, for some reason Elizabeth's addy for her entry in the Genealogist's Parade has been chopped up a bit in my comments section. S...
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A BIT OF IRELAND IN NEW ENGLAND

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You’ve probably noticed that wild skirling Irish music that the networks play during the opening videos of the Patriots’ football games. It’...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

ONE YEAR LATER...

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So I’m celebrating my blog’s first anniversary by adding some more genealogy blog links from the latest CoG and revamping my labels list so ...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008

A SMALL FAMILY DINNER

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Choosing who to invite to dinner was the hardest part, well, at least on my father’s side of my family. My mother’s side was easier:I invite...
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Monday, January 21, 2008

WHERE THEY WERE IN 1808

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After Lisa’s meme asking where our ancestors were in 1908, Donna over at What’s Past is Prologue has taken it a step further back and asks ...
Friday, January 18, 2008

THE 40Th CARNIVAL OF GENEALOGY IS HERE!

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This is the 40th Carnival of Genealog y and the topic is living- relative connections we’ve made through our genealogy research and there’s ...
Wednesday, January 16, 2008

BEDTIME GENEALOGY 21

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I intended to do a post on the Great Molasses Flood but the MassMoments website beat me to it and did a much better job of it than I would ...
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BLOG SPOTLIGHT

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Denise Olsen over at Family Matters has issued a challenge to genealogy bloggers to write a post spotlighting local or family history blogs...
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49 GENEALOGY USES FOR A FLUTAPHONE ON PARADE!

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#29 - Baton- What could be more appropriate to use when you're leading the Genealogist’s Parade in the immortal musical ...
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008

49 GENEALOGY USES FOR A FLUTAPHONE MARCHES ON!

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#27 Measuring instrument: To measure the amount of snowfall when you visit the grave of 3x great uncle Oswald, as in, "I had diffi...
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Monday, January 14, 2008

BEDTIME GENEALOGY 20

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So I write a post about Winter and snow and guess what? There’s a big storm heading this way! Genealogy wise, it’s been a productive week wi...
Sunday, January 13, 2008

WINTER

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Winter….ah, talk about how time changes the way you look at things! When I was a kid and we were living in the Dorchester section of Boston,...
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Saturday, January 12, 2008

RELATIVELY SPEAKING

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When I started this blog my main objectives were to record as much of our family’s history that I knew and remembered and to talk about the ...
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Thursday, January 10, 2008

ARVILLA AMES FAMILY BIBLE 2

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The image above is of the Deaths page from the Family Records section of the Arvilla Ames West bible. I’m posting this page because it’s the...
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THE ARVILLA AMES WEST BIBLE

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One of the items my Aunt Dorothy sent me recently is a set of photocopied pages from the bible that belonged to Arv...
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008

FLOYD E. WEST SR. AT CAMP DEVENS, SEPT,1918

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When journalists talk about the possible “bird flu” epidemic, the historical event they draw parallels to is the Great Influenza outbreak ...
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WHERE THEY WERE IN 1908

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I think it was Lisa who threw out the question to other genealogy bloggers as to where their ancestors were 100 years ago. So, here’s my lis...
Tuesday, January 08, 2008

BEDTIME GENEALOGY 19

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Things I need to write: A post about Grandpa West stationed at Camp Devens during the Spanish Influenza Outbreak DONE A post about the famil...
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