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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

SHAKING LEAVES LEAVE ME SHAKING MY HEAD....IN A GOOD WAY

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I currently have two family trees on Ancestry.com, one for my family and one for my brother in law Peter's. The other day I got one of ...
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Monday, August 29, 2011

STORMPOCALYPSE IRENE

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They started warning us about Hurricane Irene a week before it actually arrived. And when I say, warn, I mean WARN. It started off graduall...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

CAPTION CORRECTIONS

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I've made two mistakes in my recent postings of pictures that I need to correct and they actually involve the same people. In the las...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

PICTURES OF LOUISA

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Among the pictures cousin Lewis sent me on the cds were several more of my 2xgreat grandmother Louisa Almata (Richardson) West. I think I ...
Monday, August 22, 2011

A TREASURE TROVE OF FAMILY PICTURES

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Last Friday I got a great early birthday present in my mail: two cds from my West cousin Lewis Wuori containing photographs and other image...
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Sunday, August 21, 2011

1899 SUMMER PLEDGE DRIVE FOR THE UPTON UNION CHURCH

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Discovering the Upton (Maine) Historical Society page on Facebook has put me in touch with several new found cousins and it has been a lot ...
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Thursday, August 18, 2011

MORE RICHARDSON PICTURES

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Last week after I posted the anniversary reunion picture of Jonathan P West and his wife Louisa Almata Richardson I discovered that the Upt...
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CH-CH-CH-CHANGES IN THE ONLINE GENEALOGY LANDSCAPE

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I was doing my genealogy online tree building routine last night at Ancestry.com last night. Right now that involves adding data from the F...
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Sunday, August 14, 2011

GENEALOGICALLY GOBSMACKED YET AGAIN!

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Prior to attending the Ellingwood Reunion in Norway, Me. today, Cheryl and I took a swing through Upton Maine on business pertaining to the...
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Saturday, August 13, 2011

THE 85TH ELLINGWOOD REUNION, AUGUST 13TH 2011

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Today (August 13th) was the 85th Ellingwood family Reunion. Originally begun by the children and descendants of Asa Freeman Ellingwood and ...
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Wednesday, August 03, 2011

A WEST REUNION PICTURE PUZZLE

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Back when I first started doing genealogy online I made contact with Lewis, who is descended from my great granduncle Paul Leroy West.  The...
Tuesday, August 02, 2011

A FAMILY REUNION OF SORTS 19: WORTHY C. DUNHAM3

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I haven't found much online about Worthy C Dunham and his family.  Like the rest of the Dunhams in Abington he made his money in the sh...
Monday, August 01, 2011

BLUE-COLLAR CUISINE

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When we were growing up as kids in our family the big meals were on Sunday: roast chicken, pot roast, stew, corn beef and cabbage. and ther...
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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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