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Sunday, November 13, 2011

AN AUTUMN POEM BY EMILY DICKINSON

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Here's an Autumn poem by Massachusetts' own Emily Dickinson. It's one of her more whimsical ones with the reference to elves an...
Saturday, November 12, 2011

GREAT GENEALOGY POETRY CHALLENGE REMINDER

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There's only a week to go to the November 20th deadline for submissions for the Third Annual Great Genealogy Poetry Challenge. I'm ...
Friday, November 11, 2011

ON VETERANS' DAY

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On Veteran's Day I'd like to pay tribute to the members of our family who have served our country from it's birth. I don't ...
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Thursday, November 10, 2011

A PLACE FOR EVERYONE & EVERYONE IN THEIR PLACE.

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Another interesting find from Google ebooks! I have several ancestral lines from Amesbury so I googled for a history of the town and foun...
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Wednesday, November 09, 2011

IN NOT SO PERFECT HARMONY

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I'm grateful for my Dad's New Englander family.  While on the one hand I have some brick walls, on the other hand, I have other anc...
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Tuesday, November 08, 2011

A LETTER OF PERMISSION

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Among the items my Aunt Dorothy gave me a few years back was this letter, It reads: Upton, Maine, October 8, 1925.  Permission is her...
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Monday, November 07, 2011

"OUR MOTHER LURANA"

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As I said, I have a lot of family lines from southeastern Massachusetts and many members are buried in the local cemeteries, my Dunham cou...
Sunday, November 06, 2011

IN HARDWOOD GROVES BY ROBERT FROST

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It's full Autumn in New England, and who better to write a poem about it than Robert Frost? In Hardwood Groves The same leaves ove...
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Saturday, November 05, 2011

SO MUCH TO LEARN!

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((Important correction at the end of the post!)) This is one of those stories that has me slapping myself up the side of the head and say...
Friday, November 04, 2011

LOOKING FOR MY GRANDFATHER PT8

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Earlier this year I published a series of posts about looking for information about my Mom's estranged father Edward F White Sr. Thanks...
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AN EARLY AUTUMN WEDDING

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On 23Sep 1827 John Cutter West married Arvilla Ames in Sumner, Maine. We don't know much about John's background before that da...
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Thursday, November 03, 2011

NANO, NABLO, NANOO NANOO?

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It's November and the time of year when we writers indulge in the masochistic pleasure of NaNoWriMo, aka National Novel Writing Month....
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A FAMILY REUNION OF SORTS 20: LYDIA H DUNHAM

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While working on the last blog post about my Dunham cousins buried right here in Abington (which I posted waaaaay back in August!) I came a...
Saturday, October 29, 2011

ORPHA REVISITED

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(I'm working on a post about a Fall wedding in my family for the next edition of the Carnival of Genealogy, but thought I'd repost ...
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THE CITATION: OR, A GENEALOGY HORROR POEM

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  (With apologies to Edgar Allen Poe) Once upon a weeknight dreary, as I Googled, with eyes weary For a site with information of forgott...
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Friday, October 28, 2011

LUCY STOWE'S AHNENLIST

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I've spent the last few days researching back along 3x great grandmother Lucy (Stowe) Coburn's ancestry and filled in a lot of gaps...
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Thursday, October 27, 2011

SAMUEL STOWE'S PENSION FILE PT2

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I got a kick out of several things in Samuel Stowe's Revolutionary War Pension file statement. The first is the reference to his bein...
Monday, October 24, 2011

SAMUEL STOWE'S PENSION FILE PT1

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As I previously  posted, I recently found the Revolutionary War  Pension file for my 5x great grandfather Samuel Stowe. It's interestin...
Saturday, October 22, 2011

PANICS AND PENSIONS?

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So as I said in the previous post, Dr Bill Smith posted a link to his article in the Springfield Genealogy Examiner "Panic and Depre...
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ONE THING LEADS TO ANOTHER...

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Last September I published a blogpost about a death certificate I'd found on FamilySearch  that I thought might help me find who the p...
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