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Wednesday, December 31, 2008

SNOWBOUND

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They are forecasting another snow storm here and it might make this the snowiest December on record for the Boston area. It put me in mind o...
Tuesday, December 30, 2008

I`VE BEEN PROXIMIDATED

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I'm extremely flattered to have been given the Proximidade Award by the footnote Maven, a genea-blogger who certainly precisely fits the...
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Sunday, December 28, 2008

SEVEN RESOLUTIONS

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The topic of the 63rd Carnival of Genealogy is our New Years Resolutions for our genealogy research. I thought I'd look back at last Dec...
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Monday, December 22, 2008

BEDTIME GENEALOGY 29

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I've been a bit of a slacker lately with my geneablogging but I hope to take up that slack in the coming days. I am planning a post on m...
Monday, December 15, 2008

THREE WISHES FOR GENEA-CHRISTMAS

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Dear Genea-Santa, It's been a very good year for me genealogy wise on my Dad's side of the family, so I guess I'd like some th...
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Sunday, December 14, 2008

GENEA-BLOG CAROLING: "GAUDETE"

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footnoteMaven is continuing her geneablogger caroling tradition so I'm chiming in with the 16th century hymn "Gaudete" which I...
Monday, December 01, 2008

SOME HOLIDAY TRADITIONS

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When we were kids we didn't have very many holiday traditions. Holiday meals were divided between our house and my Aunt and Uncle's ...
Thursday, November 27, 2008

LINE 5 PAGE 56

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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...