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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

JOHN ACIE: LOVE HIM OR HATE HIM, PT3

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Wrapping up the case for defamation brought against John Pickerd by my ancestor John Acie in the Essex County Quarterly Court: The first ...

2014 BY THE NUMBERS

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I just did my yearly download of my Ancestry.com gedcom to the RootsMagic6 database on my hard drive.  Here's how 2014 measured up again...

JOHN ACIE: LOVE HIM OR HATE HIM, PT2

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Continuing with the defamation case my ancestor John Acie filed against John Pickard at the Essex County Quarterly Court, we next have tes...
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

JOHN ACIE: LOVE HIM OR HATE HIM, PT1

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My 8x great grandfather John Acie seems to have been one of those people you either love or hate. I've found several cases in the Essex...

SO YOU'RE HAVING TROUBLE TRANSCRIBING THAT PROBATE FILE?

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Working with probate files is sometimes a good news, bad news proposition. The good news is you've discovered this set of documents that...

POOR JENNET DICKINSON,TURNED "...OUT IN THE EXTREMITY OF WEATHER"

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Another interesting story from the Essex County Court Records involving one of my ancestors. this time my apparently feisty 10x great grand...
Monday, December 29, 2014

MY 2014 GENEALOGY YEAR IN REVIEW

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It's the end of the year, that time when we look back at the year past and plan for the year ahead. I'll be doing the usual posts on...

THE LAST INDIAN RAID

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((First posted in 2008)) I've written before about my ancestors' experiences and encounters with the Native American peoples of N...

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS #52: JAMES SWAN

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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 ...
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Saturday, December 27, 2014

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS#51: JOSHUA SWAN

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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...

THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE CHILDREN OF WILLIAM TOWNE

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I posted a few days ago why I love probate files. Here's an example why: While searching through the Essex County Massachusetts Probat...
Friday, December 26, 2014

AFTER CHRISTMAS 2014

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((originally posted in December 2013)) When I was a kid the day after Christmas was a wonderful day: I knew I had a week or so off from s...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

ADVENT CALENDAR OF CHRISTMAS MEMORIES:CHRISTMAS EVES

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Christmas Eve was sometimes hectic in our family, especially those years when we lived in Dorchester, because Mom and Dad would drive aro...
Tuesday, December 23, 2014

MY 2014 FESTIVUS AIRING OF GENEALOGICAL GRIEVANCES

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It's Festivus, and in the spirit of the holiday, I have some genealogy grievances I wish to air: -I've been working on probate fil...

ADVENT CALENDAR OF CHRISTMAS MEMORIES:COOKIES

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My Mom was a working mother for much of her life so she wasn’t one for major cooking projects except on weekends. Most times cookies were ...
Sunday, December 21, 2014

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS#50: ROBERT SWAN "...a passionate man."

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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 pos...

BLOG CAROLING 2014: THE WEXFORD CHRISTMAS CAROL

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It's become a Geneabloggers tradition to join our Friend footnoteMaven in the annual Blog Caroling Event , when geneabloggers pos...
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Friday, December 19, 2014

WHY I LOVE PROBATE FILES

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I've been happily going through more Massachusetts probate files the past few days: the Worcester County files on FamilySearch and Essex...
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Thursday, December 18, 2014

ADVENT CALENDAR OF CHRISTMAS MEMORIES: CHRISTMAS GIFTS 2014

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(originally published in Dec 2007)) It’s funny how some Christmas memories fade and some endure, especially when it comes to gifts. We...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

ADVENT CALENDAR OF CHRISTMAS MEMORIES: PARTIES-OBJECTS IN THE REAR VIEW MIRROR

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I don’t recall many holiday parties from my earlier childhood. In our family folks were too busy working or shopping at Christmas time. An...