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Friday, April 29, 2016

FINDMYPAST FRIDAY COLLECTION RELEASES FOR 29APRIL 2016

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Here's the Findmypast Friday record collection additions for 29April: New additions from the UK, Ireland and the Boer War feature ...

GENEALOGY BLOG PARTY: A TRIP BACK IN TIME

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Elizabeth O'Neal of the Little Bytes of Life blog is reviving the old genealogy blog carnivals with her Genealogy Blog Party ch...
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Thursday, April 28, 2016

A DIFFERENT VIEW

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I've written before about this photo of our Mom & Dad on their wedding day in 1947. They're standing outside a building in the ...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2016 WEEK 14: MICHAEL METCALF OF DEDHAM, MA. PT3

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My 9x great grandfather Michael Metcalf died in 1684. In his article in the NEHGS Register, Dr.Luther Metcalf Harris includes an abstract of...
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2016 WEEK 14: MICHAEL METCALF OF DEDHAM, MA. PT2

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My ancestor Michael Metcalf had been a weaver in England of a type of fabric called Dornick, a heavy linen used as table cloths according t...
Monday, April 25, 2016

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2016 WEEK 14: MICHAEL METCALF OF DEDHAM, MA. PT1

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It's now time to turn attention to the families of the women who married into the Stow family, beginning with my 8x great grandmother M...
Sunday, April 24, 2016

OHIO ROAD TRIP 2016 PT3

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My Ohio relatives live near Holmes County, Ohio and the countryside is beautiful 
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Friday, April 22, 2016

FINDMYPAST FRIDAY COLLECTION RELEASES FOR 22APRIL 2016

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This week's Findmypast Friday releases include collections from England, Scotland, and Ireland: This week we've added over 255,00...

OHIO ROAD TRIP 2016 PT2

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The plan for Monday was to take Aunt Dot out for dinner that night, which meant Cheryl, Pete and I had time to do a little sight-seeing befo...
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OHIO ROAD TRIP 2016 PT1

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Last weekend I took a roadtrip out to Ohio with my sister Cheryl and brother in law Peter to attend our Aunt Dot's 90th birthday...
Tuesday, April 19, 2016

THE SHOT HEARD ROUND THE WORLD

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Today is the 241st Anniversary of the Battles of Lexington & Concord which started the American Revolution on 19Apr 1775. They were cel...
Monday, April 18, 2016

'CONCORD HYMN' BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON

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((I first posted this back in 2012 for the 237th anniversary of the Battles of Concord & Lexington. I'm posting it again for the 24...
Sunday, April 17, 2016

FINDMYPAST RELEASES IRISH WAR OF INDEPENDENCE RECORDS.

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If you are of Irish descent and have family members who lived in Ireland during the Irish War of Independence, this announcement from Findm...
Friday, April 15, 2016

FINDMYPAST FRIDAY COLLECTION RELEASES FOR 15APRIL 2016

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This week's Findmypast Friday releases include  marriage and voting records, as well as more British newspaper articles: This week ...
Tuesday, April 12, 2016

TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME!

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The Red Sox ran a contest late last year and my brother Phil won tickets to this year's home opener.  He won because he told them ...
Sunday, April 10, 2016

THE "HOT MESS" PROBATE FILE OF NATHANIEL STOW JR PT5

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Continuing the examination of my 7x great grandfather Nathaniel Stow, Jr.: images 8, 9, and 10 are Thomas Stow's accounting of his ac...

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2016 WEEK 13: MELVIN STOW

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4x great grandfather Melvin Stow is one of my more aggravating ancestors in seeking information about him online. I know he was born on 6 Ju...
Friday, April 08, 2016

FINDMYPAST FRIDAY COLLECTION RELEASES FOR 8APRIL 2016

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The Findmypast Friday releases for 8April include two collections for a segment of Irish culture I haven't thought about before. Here...
Friday, April 01, 2016

FINDMYPAST FRIDAY COLLECTION RELEASES FOR 1APRIL 2016

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The Findmypast Friday releases this week focus on British school and baptismal records. Here's the announcement: This week we've...

SAMUEL STOW'S PENSION FILE PT2

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((First published in October, 2011))  I got a kick out of several things in Samuel Stow's Revolutionary War Pension file statement. ...