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Monday, July 25, 2011

SATURDAY NIGHT GENEALOGY FUN: "WHERE I'M FROM"

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This week's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun from Randy Seaver has us waxing poetic, Here's the challenge: 1)  Write a poem about ...
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Thursday, July 21, 2011

"THE CONGRESSMEN CAME OUT TO SEE BULL RUN "

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Today is the 150th Anniversary of the First Battle of Manassas, also know as Bull Run. It's the battle that Asa F. Ellingwood took part...
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Sunday, July 17, 2011

SNGF: MY, MY, GREAT GREAT GRANDPARENTS PIE

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This week's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun from Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings is, as usual, interesting: Your mission tonight, shoul...
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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

ALCIE OR ALICE?

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Lewis Ellingwood Noyes is buried next to his wife, Lucy Ann (Briggs) Noyes: and next to him is a much smaller headstone: The inscripti...
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Monday, July 11, 2011

WHEN IS A COUSIN WHO ISN'T A COUSIN A COUSIN AFTER ALL?

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I was back at Mt Vernon Cemetery here in Abington the other day taking pictures again in my project of photographing the entire cemetery wh...
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Saturday, July 09, 2011

A TRIP TO THE NEHGS

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During the Summer Boston has what is know as "Free Fridays",  a series of events with free admission at  various museums and i...
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Thursday, July 07, 2011

POST 1000

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When I started this blog back on Jan23, 2007, I really didn't know how long I would stick with it and how far I might go. I certainly w...
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WORD VERIFICATION DICTIONARY 10

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I'm coming up on another blog milepost and realized it's been almost a year since I last posted a Word Verification Dictionary entr...
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A FAMILY REUNION OF SORTS 18: WORTHY C. DUNHAM2

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Benjamin Hobart's  History of the town of Abington, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, from its first settlement  has become my first pl...

A FAMILY REUNION OF SORTS 17: WORTHY C. DUNHAM

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Ever since discovering the Cornelius T.Dunham family plot only a few yards away from my parents' grave in Mt Vernon Cemetery here in A...
Tuesday, July 05, 2011

A NOTE OF THE ASA ELLINGWOOD CIVIL WAR PENSION FILE

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I've come to a point in my transcription of 2x great grandfather Asa F Ellingwood's pension file where I'm trying to decide whe...
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Monday, July 04, 2011

THE 107TH CARNIVAL OF GENEALOGY: THE SEASONS OF GENEALOGY

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                       Welcome to the 107th Carnival of Genealogy! The intriguing topic for this edition from Jasia is: "the sea...
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Saturday, July 02, 2011

A DIFFERENT ELLINGWOOD REUNION OF SORTS

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I've blogged in the past about finding distant cousins from the Dunham family buried at Mt Vernon cemetery here in Abington, the same c...
Friday, July 01, 2011

A CLUE FOR A BRICKWALL?

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Waaay back here in 2007, I wrote a post about my ancestor Lydia Phelps, detailing how I'd had to revise the information I had on her. I...
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ASA ELLINGWOOD'S PENSION FILE PT11

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One of those testifying in April 1884 was Asa's eldest child, my great granduncle Walter Fred Ellingwood. I'm don't know why h...
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Thursday, June 30, 2011

THE ENDLESS SUMMER OF A GENEALOGICAL MIND

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I've never been a cold weather guy. Weather-wise, I take after my Mom's Irish roots. I'd rather be dry and warm inside than out...
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

A GENTLE CARNIVAL OF GENEALOGY REMINDER:

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I'll be hosting the next edition of the CoG for Jasia here at West in New England and this is the call for submissions for it: Call f...
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Sunday, June 26, 2011

PAYING FOR PAST GENEALOGICAL SINS

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Back when I first discovered online genealogy, I downloaded the free PAF program from FamilySearch at the suggestion of my late friend Dian...
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Sunday, June 19, 2011

ASA ELLINGWOOD'S PENSION FILE PT10

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The next witness was his cousin Oliver Pratt. On the affidavit he says "his age is 64 years. P.O. address West Paris Me. Occupation ca...

ASA ELLINGWOOD'S PENSION FILE PT9

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In my last post in this series on my 2xgreat grandfather Asa Freeman Ellingwood's Civil War Pension file, I talked about the revelation...