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Wednesday, November 02, 2016

DEADLINE REMINDER FOR THE GREAT GENEALOGY POETRY CHALLENGE.

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You still have three weeks to submit a blogpost for Eighth Annual Great Genealogy Poetry Challenge. The deadline is November 24th! These ...

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2016 WEEK 38:JOHN WHITCOMB OF LANCASTER, MA.

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Continuing on with the women who married into the Moore family on the Barker side of my family tree:  My 6x great grandmother  Susannah (...
Monday, October 31, 2016

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2016 WEEK 37: JONAS FAIRBANKS OF LANCASTER

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I have other ancestors who lived in Lancaster, Ma. during King Philip's War, some of whom died. So it didn't come as a complete sur...

HALLOWEEN TALES: "LITTLE ORPHANT ANNIE"

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((First posted on October, 2011)) I was a third grader at the Frank V Thompson School in Boston's Dorchester section when I first re...

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2016 WEEK 36: JONATHAN FAIRBANKS OF DEDHAM

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 My great grandmother Hazadiah(Fairbanks)Moore was a member of one of the better known colonial  Massachusetts families, the Fairbanks. Her ...
Sunday, October 30, 2016

TWO MORE WITCHES ON THE FAMILY TREE

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((First posted three years ago)) Yesterday I was doing some googling  on the Witch Trials trying to find out if I had more relatives in...
Friday, October 28, 2016

FINDMYPAST FRIDAY RECORDS COLLECTION RELEASES FOR 28OCTOBER 2016

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The Findmypast Friday releases for this week have 1.8 million records from the U.S., England, and Ireland: BRAND NEW RECORDS: United St...

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2016 WEEK 34: CYRUS MOORE OF WATERFORD & OXFORD ME.

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My 4x great grandfather  Stephen Moore was one of my brickwalls. I posted about him this last January and a comment from fellow genealogist...
Thursday, October 27, 2016

"WHEN THE FROST IS ON THE PUNKIN" BY JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

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((Oddly enough, both my parents occasionally would quote a line or two from Riley's two most famous poems. This is the one Dad would qu...
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

HALLOWEEN TALES: THE HELL HOUNDS OF BREWSTER

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(( This Halloween Tale is a story within a story about how I  seem to have started a scary folktale while working as a camp counselor. I f...

FINDMYPAST FRIDAY RECORDS COLLECTION RELEASES FOR 21OCTOBER 2016

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The Findmypast Friday releases for 21October include over 8.3 million Canadian, Irish, and Early American records :   BRAND NEW RECORDS:...
Sunday, October 23, 2016

HALLOWEEN TALES: POE IN BOSTON

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((I first posted this on October 31, 2007.)) One of the many islands of Boston Harbor is Castle Island, though for many years it’s been ...
Sunday, October 16, 2016

FINDMYPAST FRIDAY RECORDS COLLECTION RELEASES FOR 14 OCTOBER 2016

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This week's Findmypast Friday records collection releases includes records from Canada and Scotland: BRAND NEW RECORDS: Ontario Bir...

HALLOWEEN TALES: "THE NEW WIFE AND THE OLD" PT2

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((First posted in October 2014)) My distant cousin Jonathan Moulton's first wife was Ann Smith who he married in 1749 and with whom ...

HALLOWEEN TALES: "THE NEW WIFE AND THE OLD" PT1

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((First posted in October2014)) Last year for Halloween I blogged about various New England legends and folklore, some of which posts I may...
Monday, October 10, 2016

HALLOWEEN TALES: "THE PALANTINE" BY JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

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I was looking for another ghost story or poem I could post as part of the Halloween theme for October when I found this one by distant cousi...
Friday, October 07, 2016

FINDMYPAST FRIDAY RECORDS COLLECTION RELEASES FOR 7 OCTOBER 2016

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The Findmypast Friday releases this week have over 3.5 million British and American records: BRAND NEW RECORDS: Britain, Registers of ...
Tuesday, October 04, 2016

HALLOWEEN TALES: MOTHER CREWE

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((In  October2013  I posted a series of stories from among the New England legends about ghosts  and witches. I thought I'd repost them...
Friday, September 30, 2016

HOW MANY SURNAMES ON MY DATABASE?

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A few weeks back Randy Seaver's topic for one of his Saturday Night Genealogy Fun Challenges was How Many Surnames  In Your Family Tre...
Wednesday, September 28, 2016

LOOKING BACK 53 YEARS.....OUCH!

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(First posted in 2008)) Ah, what can I say in my defense? I was young, only 15 years old. It was 1964 and American culture was stil...
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