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Friday, May 28, 2010

DOWN ON JP'S FARM 1880

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As I posted earlier, I recently found the missing 1880 Nonpopulation Federal Census Agricultural Schedule for my 2x great grandfather  J...

NOTHING VENTURED.....THE ANSWER

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Last week I wrote a blogpost concerning my contacting the City of Boston Archives to find out if they had any records on my two maternal g...

DEAR ACCREDITEDONLINECOLLEGES.COM PERSON:

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This is the second unsolicited email I've received from someone associated with your site asking me to check out one of your blogposts a...
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Thursday, May 27, 2010

AN HOUR ON FOOTNOTE.COM

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It's Thursday and after a short visit to the doctor for some tests the rest of my day is free.I prefer to schedule the appointments as ...
Monday, May 24, 2010

PERSISTENCE PAYS OFF.

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I had intended to summarize what I'd learned about my great great grandfather Jonathan Phelps West and his brothers from the 1850-1880...
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Sunday, May 23, 2010

DOWN ON ASA'S FARM 1880

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While Hiram West had abandoned farming by 1880 in favor of the lumber and mill business, brother Asa West was still at it, albeit at a sma...
Saturday, May 22, 2010

SATURDAY NIGHT GENEALOGY FUN: THE TIME CAPSULE

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It's Saturday night, time for Randy Seaver's Saturday Night Genealogy  Fun over at his Genea-Musings blog. Here's tonight...
Thursday, May 20, 2010

NOTHING VENTURED.....

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The other day my friend and co-worker Laura Vona posted over on her blog about the success she'd had obtaining records of her grandfa...
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

HIRAM WEST'S SAW-MILL IN 1880

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As we saw in the last post, my great great granduncle Hiram F. West had abandoned farming in favor of operating a grist mill and a saw mill...
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HIRAM WEST'S GRIST-MILL IN 1880

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By 1880 Hiram F. West was 41 and had given up farming. On the 1880 Federal Census his occupation is given as "Owner Saw and Grist-Mill...
Sunday, May 16, 2010

SETTLED IN: THE PICTURES

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The east side of the living room. That's my part of my pedigree chart and notebooks with my genealogy research atop the smaller bookca...
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SETTLED IN

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It's been about a month now since I started living here and two weeks since the last of the packing, moving and unpacking process(altho...
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Saturday, May 15, 2010

SATURDAY NIGHT GENEALOGY FUN: THE WAYBACK MACHINE

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It's time for another of Randy Seaver's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenges over at his Genea-Musings blog. This one involves ...
Thursday, May 13, 2010

DOWN ON ASA'S FARM

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Before I move onto the 1880 Schedules for Hiram West, I'd like to complete my look at the state of three of the West brothers' farms...

WORD VERIFICATION DICTIONARY 8

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Once again, definitions for the strange words that we type for word verification for comments on Blogspot.com blogs: keisses - What som...
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

"WEST IN NEW ENGLAND" IS ONE OF MYHERITAGE'S TOP 100 WEBSITES!

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I've been selected by a judging panel at MyHeritage.com as one of the Top 100 Genealogy websites and blogs for 2010! The criteria us...
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HIRAM WEST'S MILL IN 1870

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As I mentioned at the conclusion of my post about Hiram West's farm on the 1870 Census Agricultural Schedule, even though Hiram had a sm...
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Sunday, May 09, 2010

A GENEALOGICAL LAUGH FROM BETTY WHITE AND SNL

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Betty White hosted SNL last night and I found this clip from it this morning on hulu.com. Tina Fey is the census taker and Betty is the resi...
Saturday, May 08, 2010

SATURDAY NIGHT GENEALOGY FUN: MATRILINEAL LINES

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It's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun time over at Randy Seaver's Genea- Musings blog, and this one has to do with our matrilineal li...
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Thursday, May 06, 2010

DOWN ON HIRAM'S FARM

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((Note-I've since found the missing page and added it to this post. This new material is in red ) Listed on the same page of the 1870 Fe...
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