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Monday, March 31, 2014

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS #11: WILLIAM PINSON PT4

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On 19 April 1681 Thomas Robbins filed this document which he'd drawn up the previous day. In it, he  transfers all his possessions to h...
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Saturday, March 29, 2014

THE 2014 NEW ENGLAND FAMILY HISTORY CONFERENCE

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Today I attended the 2014  New England Family History Conference at the LDS Franklin Chapel in Franklin, Ma. My first class was at 9:50 a.m....
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Friday, March 28, 2014

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS #12: HENRY BROWN & THE HIGLEDEE PIGLEDEE LAND LOT

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Fellow geneablogger Amy Johnson Crow of No Story Too Small has issued the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge. Basically, we have to post s...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

IF YOU COULD TAKE IT WITH YOU.

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This is was inspired by something writer CJ Cherryh posted on her Facebook page . Earlier cultures had a belief in an afterlife much like th...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014

SATURDAY NIGHT GENEALOGY FUN: TOP FIVE SURNAMES

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I'm a bit behind this week on my blog posts, among which is my response to the latest Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge from Randy ...
Friday, March 21, 2014

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS #11: WILLIAM PINSON PT3

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Continuing the case of my ancestor William Pinson vs Walter  Munjoy from the case files of the Essex County court, it appears that William ...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS #11: WILLIAM PINSON PT2

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Since my Dad's family has been here in New England for nearly four centuries now, you'd think more of our ancestors would have made...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

DEADLINE REMINDER FOR THE GENEABLOGGERS 'JUST MAKE UP SOME LYRICS' CHALLENGE

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There's less than a month left now to the deadline for the Second Geneabloggers Just Make Up Some Lyrics Challenge. Exercise your funny...
Tuesday, March 18, 2014

JUST MAKE UP THE LYRICS: "ON MY PATERNAL LINE"

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Here's my effort for the "Just Make Up The Lyrics Challenge" It's set to the music of the song "End of the Line"...
Sunday, March 16, 2014

A WEEK WITHOUT ANCESTRY.COM ENDS

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My week without Ancestry.com ended at 12am this morning. I will admit it was difficult at first, a bit like suddenly going on a diet. A f...
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52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS #11: WILLIAM PINSON PT1

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Fellow geneablogger Amy Johnson Crow of No Story Too Small has issued the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge. Basically, we have to post s...
Saturday, March 15, 2014

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS #10: SARAH BICKFORD

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Fellow geneablogger Amy Johnson Crow of No Story Too Small has issued the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge. Basically, we have to post ...
Sunday, March 09, 2014

A WEEK WITHOUT ANCESTRY.COM DAY 1

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So I started my Week Without Ancestry.com today.  This will mean I won't be working on my family tree until next Sunday because my ...
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Saturday, March 08, 2014

A WEEK WITHOUT ANCESTRY.COM CHALLENGE: A CLARIFICATION AND AN ADDENDUM.

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First I need  to clear something up.  The "A Week Without Ancestry.com Challenge" blogpost is not a call for a week long boycott ...
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Thursday, March 06, 2014

A WEEK WITHOUT ANCESTRY.COM CHALLENGE

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As I said in the update to my last post, I've unsubscribed from Ancestry.com because of my frustration over the end of Old Search. I...
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ANCESTRY.COM, 'NEW SEARCH' AND THE C.H.O.P. PRINCIPLE.

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Well, they've been threatening us with it for years now and they've finally gone and done it at Ancestry.com. They've replaced ...
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Wednesday, March 05, 2014

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS #9: LUKE PERKINS

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Fellow geneablogger Amy Johnson Crow of No Story Too Small has issued the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge. Basically, we have to post so...
Monday, March 03, 2014

SATURDAY NIGHT GENEALOGY FUN: MY JOHN SMITH

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The prompt for the latest Saturday Night Genealogy Fun assignment from Randy Seaver's Gene-Musing's blog is this: 1)  How many perso...
Sunday, March 02, 2014

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS #8: EDMUND GREENLEAF PT3

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The most interesting part of Edmond Greenleaf's will is that codicil: "The following paper is also recorded in the "Probate R...
Friday, February 28, 2014

WHAT I KNOW ABOUT THE BARROWS FAMILY

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This is one of the family lines I need to do more work on.  My Barrows family ancestry is another family line from the Plymouth-Plympton-C...
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