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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

"THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH" BY LONGFELLOW

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As I've noted many times before here, I've a number of ancestors who were blacksmiths.The list will probably have more names added ...
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Tuesday, June 05, 2012

ANOTHER TANGLE ON MY TREE

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Today I did one of my daily Facebook posts commemorating an anniversary of a birth, death, or marriage of one of my ancestors. This one hap...
Thursday, May 31, 2012

"STEAL.TAKE & CARRY AWAY'

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As I wrote in the last post, I've been going through the Oxford County Court records over at FamilySearch.org looking for cases involvi...
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

ADAMS Et Al. V West

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Recently FamilySearch.org has been posting online  the Maine State Archives Collections 1790-1966, including the  Court Records. So I bega...
Monday, May 28, 2012

THE 1940 U.S. CENSUS: THE WHITES2

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In a previous post about finding my White family members in the 1940 census I told about finding my great grandmother Pauline (Offinger) Wh...
Thursday, May 24, 2012

THE SECOND AMERICAN CIVIL WAR GENEALOGY BLOG CHALLENGE

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Last year marked the 150 anniversary of the start of the American Civil War, and to honor the occasion I held "The American Civil War ...
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Monday, May 14, 2012

THE CANCELLATION OF "WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?"

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I'd been watching the declining ratings of Who Do You Think You Are? this season with growing concern. I knew they were putting the fut...
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THE SECOND NEW ENGLAND GENEABLOGGER BASH

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I missed the first New England Geneablogger Bash last fall but thanks to Erica and Mike Voolich I was able to ride down with them to the se...
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Saturday, May 05, 2012

HUNTING ANCESTORS ALONG ROUTE 58

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I'm really lucky: I have ancestors buried in cemeteries nearby here in Plymouth County, Ma. Not only that, many of the cemeteries are b...
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Thursday, May 03, 2012

HAPPY 344TH ANNIVERSARY JAMES KEITH AND SUSANNA EDSON

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  T oday is the 344th anniversary of my 8x great grandparents Rev, James Keith and  Susanna Edson  of West Bridgewater, Ma.  I decided to...
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Monday, April 30, 2012

LINES OF DISTINCTION: ROB LOWE ON WDYTYA

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Back in March I attended the 2012 New England Family History Conference, and one of the sessions was one by Michael Potaski on "Findin...
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Thursday, April 19, 2012

"CONCORD HYMN" BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON

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We've all heard about the "shot heard round the world" fired at Concord, but there's more to the poem. So, in honor of th...
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

PATRIOTS' DAY 2012

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Tomorrow is the 237th anniversary of the Battles of Concord and Lexington.and in commemoration of that event I'm once more posting the...
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Thursday, April 12, 2012

THE 1940 U.S. CENSUS: THE WHITES

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I'd been looking forward to the release of the 1940 Federal Census for some time now because I had some questions that needed answers o...
Monday, April 09, 2012

"IN SUNSHINE OR IN SHADOW" 7

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I've had no success finding anything online on the accidental death of the other John McFarland  on May 24th 1888. I'll try to get ...
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Thursday, April 05, 2012

"IN SUNSHINE OR IN SHADOW" 6

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I wanted to see if I could find a newspaper account of the death of either my great granduncle Frank McFarland or the other John McFarlan...
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Saturday, March 31, 2012

"IN SUNSHINE OR IN SHADOW" 5

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Before I conclude this series, I wanted to use GoogleMaps to see if I could get some pictures of the places the McFarland Family lived in t...
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Thursday, March 29, 2012

"IN SUNSHINE OR IN SHADOW" 4

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It's been years, decades actually, since the last time I'd been to the McFarland grave at Mt Benedict. I couldn't remember exac...
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

"IN SUNSHINE OR IN SHADOW" 3

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I've had a public family tree on Ancestry.com for eight years now.(I just looked up when I started there. I can't believe it's ...
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"IN SUNSHINE OR IN SHADOW" 2

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As I said, I'd discovered names of children I hadn't known about in the family of my maternal great grandparents John and Annie (Ke...