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Thursday, October 31, 2013

TWO MORE WITCHES ON THE FAMILY TREE

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Yesterday I was doing some googling  on the Witch Trials trying to find out if I had more relatives involved in them. I am a direct descend...

HALLOWEEN TALES9: "LITTLE ORPHANT ANNIE"

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I was a third grader at the Frank V Thompson School in Boston's Dorchester section when I first read this poem in our English text boo...
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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

HALLOWEEN TALES8: THE GARRISON OF CAPE ANN

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Tonight's Halloween Tale is a poem by distant cousin John Greenleaf Whittier and concerns a story written about by Cotton Mather. Appar...
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Monday, October 28, 2013

MY GENEALOGY TIME CAPSULE

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((The prompt last week for Julie Goucher's The Book of Me, Written By You was what I might put in a time time capsule. I had run a gene...
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Sunday, October 27, 2013

THE HELL HOUNDS OF BREWSTER

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((Tonight's Halloween Tale is a story within a story about how I  seem to have started a scary folktale while working as a camp counse...
Saturday, October 26, 2013

GENEABLOGGING PANEL AT THE MERRIMACK VALLEY CHAPTER OF THE MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY OF GENEALOGISTS

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Today I had the honor of appearing on a panel about geneablogging at the Merrimack Valley Chapter of the Massachusetts Society of Genealogi...
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Thursday, October 24, 2013

HALLOWEEN TALES7: THE WILD MAN OF CAPE COD

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For today's Halloween Tale we return once more to pirates and Cape Cod: THE WILD MAN OF CAPE COD For years after Bellamy's pira...
Monday, October 21, 2013

"EVANGELINE" BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

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Last month I reprinted a post I wrote in 2007 about my ancestor Jonathan Abbott's relationship with some Acadian exiles in Andover Ma....
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THE BOOK OF ME, WRITTEN BY YOU5: MY GRANDPARENTS

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I'm taking  part in a meme started by Julie Goucher of Anglers Rest . Using prompts from "The Book of Me, Written By You" I...
Saturday, October 19, 2013

HALLOWEEN TALES6:LADY ELEANOR'S MANTLE

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Many legends have a basis in fact. Such is the case in this next Halloween Tale. There was a Samuel Shute who was Royal Governor of Massach...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

HALLOWEEN TALES5: NIX'S MATE

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This Halloween Tale is one of my favorites because I've actually seen Nix's Mate Island. Back when I was a kid I wan an avid reader...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

HALLOWEEN TALES4: PETER RUGG

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Tonight's Halloween Tale is a story I first read about when I was in the third or fourth grade. I remember checking out a book of Ameri...
Monday, October 14, 2013

THE 2013 NEW ENGLAND GENEABLOGGERS BASH

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On Sunday I got into my car Ping II (AKA Pingzinga) and set out for this year's New England Geneabloggers Bash at Sara Campbell's p...
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Saturday, October 12, 2013

HALLOWEEN TALES3: THE SHRIEKING WOMAN

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Some people might not be aware that quite a few pirates roamed the coast of New England in the early colonial period. Tonight's Hallowe...
Thursday, October 10, 2013

HALLOWEEN TALES2: AUNT RACHEL'S CURSE.

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Tonight's Halloween Tale from Charles Montgomery Skinner's Myths and Legends of Our Own Land: Vol. I  teaches a valuable lesson:neve...
Wednesday, October 09, 2013

HALLOWEEN TALES: MOTHER CREWE

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I thought for Halloween this year I'd post some old scary legends and folktales of New England. So I did a Google search and came up wit...

THE FIFTH ANNUAL GREAT GENEALOGY POETRY CHALLENGE REMINDER!

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Just a reminder about the approaching deadline and submission rules for the Fifth Annual Great Genealogy Poetry Challenge: As in the past...
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Friday, October 04, 2013

MEMORIES OF MALDEN

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My first childhood home was in Malden, Ma. It was a two family house at 37 Beach St. near the corner of Clapp St. That part of Malden is on ...
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Friday, September 27, 2013

THE GENEALOGY ROADSHOW DEBUTS

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One of the common critiques of the Who Do You Think You Are? program has been the use of celebrities. I've often seen comments and post...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

THE BOOK OF ME, WRITTEN BY YOU 4: SUMMER MEMORIES

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I'm taking  part in a meme started by Julie Goucher of Anglers Rest . Using prompts from "The Book of Me, Written By You" I...
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