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Wednesday, November 20, 2013

A FAMILY REUNION OF SORTS 23

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I've finished adding names and information from the two Ellingwood genealogy books to my ancestry family tree and then following up by ...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

MY ALLERTON AND WARREN MAYFLOWER ANCESTRY

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((First posted November 2011)) Whenever I am talking or writing about my Mayflower descent, for some ironic reason I always forget about...
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Monday, November 18, 2013

MY ELLINGWOOD MAYFLOWER ANCESTRY

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(( I first posted two articles about my Mayflower family descents back in  November 2011 and decided to repost them every year as a Thanksg...
Sunday, November 17, 2013

THE BOOK OF ME, WRITTEN BY YOU6: THE YEAR I WAS BORN

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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...
Friday, November 15, 2013

WHAT I KNOW ABOUT: THE ABBOTTS

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This is the start of a new series of posts in which I'll list what I've already learned about one of my family lines. I'll also...
Thursday, November 14, 2013

UNK-IFIED..WITH APOLOGIES TO DR. SEUSS

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 ((One of my earliest posts, from February, 2007)) I've done some writing elsewhere on my tree climbing in the past and this is part...
Monday, November 11, 2013

THE SHAKING LEAF AND THE MISSING FILE

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I've been concentrating on my Ellingwood/Ellenwood/Ellinwood lines lately in my research work on Ancestry. Usually when I sign on there ...
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ON VETERANS DAY 2013

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Every Veteran's Day I like to pay tribute to the members of our family who have served our country from its birth. I don't have al...
Thursday, November 07, 2013

THE MILITARY HONOR ROLL PROJECT: ABINGTON, MA.

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo of Nutfield Genealogy is once again asking bloggers to transcribe their local veteran monuments and list the names...
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Monday, November 04, 2013

STEPHEN FOSDICK

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Back in August I mentioned here that I had won a copy of a book from Marian Pierre-Louis of Fieldstone Common. It was Roger Thompson's...
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...