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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

THE 2011 WEST IN NEW ENGLAND GENIE AWARDS

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Once again it's the time of year when awards are handed out, even in the geneablogging community. As a member of the AGFH(Academy of G...
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Monday, January 30, 2012

ON MY (VIRTUAL) BOOKSHELF

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I've mentioned the two Ellingwood genealogy books I own and the digital edition of The Upton Memorial. I thought I'd share the othe...

ABINGTON CIVIL WAR MEMORIAL ARCH REDEDICATION FRI. SEPT.21

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I received the following anonymous comment on my post about the Civil War Memorial Bridge here in Abington and I thought I'd rep...
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Sunday, January 29, 2012

SET IN STONE?

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Many genealogists , including myself, spend a lot of time in cemeteries. We hunt for dead relatives, either ours or someone elses' to t...
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Friday, January 27, 2012

THOMAS, A SLAVE

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A few weeks back was the anniversary of my 7x great grandparents Samuel Upton and Abigail Frost of Salem Massachusetts. I sometimes use fam...
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Monday, January 23, 2012

BLOGIVERSARY: NOW WE ARE FIVE

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Wow, I can't believe it has been five years since I began this blog. Of course, I need to do my now traditional annual disclosure about ...
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Sunday, January 22, 2012

SATURDAY NIGHT GENEALOGY FUN;: RANDOM RESEARCH

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It's once more Saturday night and time for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun on Randy Seaver's Genea-Musings. Here's  this week'...
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Saturday, January 14, 2012

THE SEVERED TIES

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I was working on adding the Indiana descendants of my 5x great grandparents Joseph and Sara (Herrick) Ellingwood of Lyndesborough, NH when ...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

FRANCIS ELLINGWOOD: NEW HAMPSHIRE TO INDIANA

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In her letter to nephew Charles Fletcher, Return Ellenwood had mentioned that four of her brother Joseph's sons had left him. I couldn...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012

THE STATEMENT OF MARTHA ELLENWOOD FLETCHER

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Today I found 4x great uncle Benjamin Tuck Ellenwood's Revolutionary War Pension file over on Fold3.com. Among the images was this one,...
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Monday, January 09, 2012

A LETTER FROM RETURN ELLINGWOOD JANUARY 1825

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I recently came across this on Ancestry on a family tree owned by John K.(I don't want to give his full name without his permission ...
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Sunday, January 08, 2012

SERENDIPITY & BENJAMIN TUCK ELLENWOOD

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I'm still working my way back on the Ellingwood family tree, trying to fill in the blank spaces by a combination of searches on Ancestr...
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THE GOLDEN MILESTONE BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

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I took a walk this afternoon and after I got home I made the comment on Facebook that it had been a beautiful sunset and that I thought tha...
Friday, January 06, 2012

A GENEALOGICAL SENSE OF WONDER

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I've been reading science fiction and fantasy since I was eight years old. There's a term used in that community called "Sense...
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Thursday, January 05, 2012

THE FAMILY OF JOHN WESLEY ELLINGWOOD PT6

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No matter the circumstances that might force them to find work in the United States for a time, Enoch and Oscar Ellingwood always returned ...

WHEN YOU SAY CHARGOGGAGOGGMANCHAUGGAGOGGCHAUBUNAGUNGAMAUGG, YOU'VE SAID IT ALL.

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((I first posted this back in May 2008. It's one of my favorites of all my blogposts.)) Massachusetts and New England has some intere...
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Monday, January 02, 2012

A WALK ALONG THE NORTH RIVER, NORWELL, MA.

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Back in November I mentioned I'd discovered that my 8x great grandfather William Barstow was among the early shipbuilders of New Englan...
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Sunday, January 01, 2012

MY 2012 GENEALOGY PLANS

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It's time once again for those of us looking into the past to look into our future. So here are my genealogy goals and my plans on how ...
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Saturday, December 31, 2011

A BROOM, A BUCK, AND A BAG.

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I'm not sure where our Mom came up with it, whether it was an old Irish tradition or if she heard it from a friend, but on New Year...
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Thursday, December 29, 2011

MY 2011 GENEAPLANS: HOW DID I DO?

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Last December I posted my genealogy plans for 2011 so it's time to look back and see how I did. My results are posted in red. 1 Con...
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