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Thursday, June 30, 2016

AN ANCESTOR FOR THE IRON THRONE!

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Elizabeth O'Neal has an interesting topic for her June Genealogy Blog Party Which of your ancestors deserve to sit on the Iron Throne...
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WHERE WERE MY ANCESTORS 150 YEARS AGO?

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Here's last week's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge from Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings: Your mission, should you decide to a...
Wednesday, June 29, 2016

FREE ACCESS TO 1 BILLION RECORDS ON FINDMYPAST 29JUN UNTIL 6JUL2016

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Findmypast sent me an email with the following announcement of a great deal to for the next 7 days: Findmypast celebrates 4th of July wi...
Monday, June 27, 2016

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2016 WEEK 24: JOSHUA FISHER OF MEDFIELD, MA.

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For Week 24 of 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2016 it's time to turn to the family of Jeremiah Dean's wife Mary Fisher, beginning with he...
Sunday, June 26, 2016

"A FRAUDILENT DEED" PART 3: CONCLUSION

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A few final thoughts about the case of Peter Weare's "fraudilent deed": -Apparently the Selectmen of Hampton, New Hampshire ...
Friday, June 24, 2016

FINDMYPAST FRIDAY COLLECTION RELEASES FOR 24JUN 2016

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Here are the new records added at Findmypast for this week's Findmypast Friday releases:  Arizona Deaths Over 393,000 new death re...
Thursday, June 23, 2016

"A FRAUDILENT DEED" PART 2

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After finding that document concerning a petition by the town of Hampton NH to Governor Dudley over a land deal between my ancestor John Ma...
Wednesday, June 22, 2016

"A FRAUDILENT DEED" PART 1

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Here's an interesting story I ran across the other day that concerns some land my 8x great grandfather John Marston owned in Hampton, N...
Monday, June 20, 2016

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2016 WEEK 23: JEREMIAH DEAN OF DEDHAM, MA.

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The subject for week 23 of 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks is 7x great grandfather and my source is again Marion D. Cooper's DESCENDANTS OF JO...
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Saturday, June 18, 2016

FATHERS DAY 2016

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In honor of Father's Day I'm posting pictures of some of the fathers on my family tree. From the Wests: My Dad, Floyd E West, Jr...
Friday, June 17, 2016

FINDMYPAST FRIDAY COLLECTION RELEASES FOR 17JUN 2016

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This week's FindmyPast Friday records includes additions to the Irish and U.K. record collections: This week we're bringing you o...

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2016 WEEK 22: JOHN DEAN OF DEDHAM, MA. PT2

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Here's the transcription of my 8x great grandfather John Dean's will that was done by Marion D. Cooper in her DESCENDANTS OF JOHN D...
Thursday, June 16, 2016

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2016 WEEK 22: JOHN DEAN OF DEDHAM, MA.

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This will begin a series of posts about the family of my 6x great grandmother Abigail Dean, wife of Nathaniel Stow. As has happened in the ...
Sunday, June 12, 2016

WAS LYDIA GAY A LUSHER?

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In my post about my ancestor Nathaniel Gay,  his wife is referred to as Lydia Lusher by the author of the book John Gay of Dedham, Massachus...
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Friday, June 10, 2016

FINDMYPAST FRIDAY COLLECTION RELEASES FOR 10JUN 2016

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This week's Findmypast Friday releases for 10 June consist of a series of updates to their collection of UK parish records , including...
Wednesday, June 08, 2016

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2016 WEEK 21: NATHANIEL GAY OF DEDHAM, MA.

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The subject for week 21 of 52 Ancestors in 52 weeks is my 8x great grandfather Nathaniel Gay.  Here's his biography in Frederick Lewis ...
Tuesday, June 07, 2016

SOME NEW OLD PICTURES

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The other day my distant cousin Kimberly Gautreau received a mixed bunch of tintypes and photographs. Unfortunately there were no names on t...
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Monday, June 06, 2016

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2016 WEEK 20: JOHN GAY OF DEDHAM, MA.

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Samuel Dana, my 7x great grandfather, married Abigail Gay. Her line goes back to immigrant ancestor John Gay, my 9x great grandfather. ...
Friday, June 03, 2016

FINDMYPAST FRIDAY COLLECTION RELEASES FOR 3JUN 2016

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 Here's the FindmyPast Fridays record releases for 3Jun 2016:   This week we've added over 890,000 new records including: Irela...

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2016 WEEK 19: NATHANIEL DANA OF CAMBRIDGE, MA.

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I'd fallen behind on my 52 Ancestors  during and after my recent trip which is the reason behind the recent flurry of posts. With this ...