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Thursday, November 27, 2008

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I'm trying to catch up with the memes that I've fallen behind on lately. Randy Seaver over at Genea-Musings got this meme rolling la...
Tuesday, November 25, 2008

FOUR WAY TAGGED

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A meme went around in the geneablogging community about a year and a half ago and it's back once more. Despite the fact that I'm a b...
Saturday, November 22, 2008

IRISH MYTHS

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There are two things that drew me to Irish culture years before I began researching genealogy: its music and its mythology. I'll most li...
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Thursday, November 13, 2008

BLOGGING BRUNCH 19

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Genealogy has made the news a few times this week because of confrontations. Canadian WW2 veterans were angered because Ancestry used the ...
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Monday, November 10, 2008

LEVI AMES PART3

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So how might I and Levi Ames be related? Levi himself gave me some clues in the first paragraph of his "Last Words and Dying Speech...
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Thursday, November 06, 2008

LEVI AMES PT2

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Late on the afternoon of 21 Oct 1773 a group of horsemen rode towards Dorchester Point in pursuit of a boat rowed by a dozen men. British tr...
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Sunday, November 02, 2008

LEVI AMES

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He began his life of crime at age 7 when he stole eggs from a neighbor. It ended at age 21 in 1773 for the crime of burglary. There were ...
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Saturday, November 01, 2008

VOTE!

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I have no knowledge of any of my paternal colonial ancestors ever being elected to a public office (although they held various appointed tow...
Friday, October 31, 2008

LUCK OF THE IRISH: 9TH EDITION OF THE CARNIVAL OF IRISH HERITAGE AND CULTURE

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It's Halloween and instead of tricks we have some treats for you in the 9th Edition of the Carnival of Irish Heritage and Culture. In ke...
Friday, October 24, 2008

ONE MORE HAUNTING REMINDER

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There's only a few days left to submit your post for the 9th Edition of the Carnival of Irish Heritage and Culture. Here's the topic...
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Thursday, October 23, 2008

SUPERSTITIONS OUR MOTHER TOLD US.

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Although my Mom was second generation Irish American and had heard many Irish superstitions and sayings growing up with her family. While sh...
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008

THE TRUTH ABOUT DANCING MAGGIE

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My great grandparents did meet and marry in Edinburgh where Annie's father Patrick Kelley and her future husband John McFarland both wor...
Sunday, October 19, 2008

THE 58TH CARNIVAL OF GENEALOGY IS HAUNTING YOU!

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...and the only way to escape it is to go read it now!! But you'll have to wait a few more days to find out if my story is fact or fic...
Friday, October 17, 2008

CARNIVAL REMINDER

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Just a friendly reminder, folks, that the deadline for submissions for the 9th edition of the Carnival of Irish Heritage and Culture is Oct....
Thursday, October 16, 2008

25 THINGS

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There's a new game of meme tag passing around the geneablogger community that is meant to help us learn a bit more about each other. App...
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

WOULD YOU CARE TO COMMENT? (POST#400!)

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Kathryn Lake Hogan over at "Looking4Ancestors" issued a challenge to her fellow geneabloggers entitled "Would You Care to Com...
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Monday, October 13, 2008

DANCING MAGGIE

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Although my grandmother Agnes McFarland's parents were Irish, they had met and married in Scotland! In the mid 19th century Edinburgh en...
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Sunday, October 12, 2008

AN ADDENDUM TO THE PURSUIT OF DAVID ROBBINS

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I was just rereading the Merrill account of Robbins' capture and saw that it supposedly took place at Aziscoos Falls. Nearly 100 years l...

THE PURSUIT OF DAVID ROBBINS PT3

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Deputy Sheriff Lewis Loomis and Daniel Ellingwood had captured David Robbins and brought him back to Lancaster, N.H. to stand trial, but jus...
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Friday, October 10, 2008

THE FAMILY BIBLE

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Besides the West Family Bible that my Aunt Dorothy gave me on the road trip my sister Cheryl and I took this past August, I have two other b...
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