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Saturday, September 30, 2017

FINDMYPAST FRIDAY RELEASES FOR 29 SEPTEMBER 2017

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 There are over 3 million new records in this week's Findmypast Friday releases: BRAND NEW RECORDS: Connecticut Baptisms, 1600s-180...
Friday, September 29, 2017

A DIFFERENT MOMENT IN TIME

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There's been a lot of discussion on social media about Ken Burns' PBS documentary on the Vietnam War. I remember that period in our ...
Wednesday, September 27, 2017

DIVING INTO THE GENE POOL PT5: MILD FRUSTATIONS AND COPING WITH CENTIMORGANS

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It's been a few months since I last posted about  my DNA test results. After the exciting start, things have settled down a bit as I gr...
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Tuesday, September 26, 2017

THE NINTH ANNUAL GREAT GENEALOGY POETRY CHALLENGE REMINDER

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Just a friendly reminder that there are still two months  left to send your submissions in for the Great Genealogy Poetry Challenge  The dea...
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Monday, September 25, 2017

FINDMYPAST FRIDAY RELEASES FOR 22 SEPTEMBER 2017

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There's over 750 thousand new records from Britain and Ireland in the Findmypast Friday releases for September 22: BRAND NEW RECORDS:...

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2017 WEEK 35: CHRISTOPHER OSGOOD OF IPSWICH MA. PT 2

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I found the images of a transcription of Christopher Osgood's will over at AmericanAncestors.org. It places some conditions on the money...
Sunday, September 17, 2017

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2017 WEEK 35: CHRISTOPHER OSGOOD OF IPSWICH MA. PT 1

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Well, this is embarrassing! While researching for this blogpost I discovered that my ancestor Mary (Osgood) Lovejoy's mother was not M...
Saturday, September 16, 2017

FINDMYPAST FRIDAY RELEASES FOR 15 SEPTEMBER 2017

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All 43,689 new records in this week's Findmypast Friday releases are from Herefordshire in England:   Herefordshire Baptisms OVER ...
Tuesday, September 12, 2017

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2017 WEEK 34 PHILIP FOWLER OF IPSWICH MA. PT 3

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The other document included in Matthew Adams Stickney's book The Fowler Family is this agreement in which my ancestor Philip FowlerSr. m...
Monday, September 11, 2017

SEPTEMBER 11TH, 2001

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( (The majority of this post was first published on 11Sep 2008. I've changed the ending to reflect that bin Laden was found.)) Sept ...
Sunday, September 10, 2017

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2017 WEEK 34 PHILIP FOWLER OF IPSWICH MA. PT 2

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As I said in an earlier post my 11 th great grandfather Phillip Fowler died intestate, but there are several other documents which contain i...

FINDMYPAST FRIDAY RELEASES FOR 8 SEPTEMBER 2017

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Findmypast added over 1.3 million new records from Great Britain in this week's Findmypast  Friday releases. BRAND NEW RECORDS: La...
Monday, September 04, 2017

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2017 WEEK 34 PHILIP FOWLER OF IPSWICH MA. PT1

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Looking at the women who married my male  Lovejoy ancestors begins with the parents of my 9x great grandmother Mary (Osgood) Lovejoy. She wa...
Saturday, September 02, 2017

FINDMYPAST FRIDAY RELEASES FOR 1 SEPTEMBER 2017

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There are over 160 thousand new records from England and New Zealand in this week's Findmypast Friday record releases: BRAND NEW REC...
Thursday, August 31, 2017

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2017 WEEK 33 HENRY LOVEJOY OF ANDOVER, MA.

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My 7x great grandparents Henry Lovejoy and Sarah Farnum were 2nd cousins because they were both descendants of my immigrant ancestor Ralph ...

DAD AND HURRICANE CAROL

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 ((Originally posted 31Aug 2016)) Today is the 63rd anniversary of Hurricane Carol, a Category 3 hurricane that hit New England on 31 Aug...

POMPEY LOVEJOY A "NEGRO SERVANT" AND OTHERS OF ANDOVER, MA.

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There's a place in Andover, Ma. called "Pomp's Pond". It was named after was Pompey Lovejoy, but he is not one of my ances...
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Wednesday, August 30, 2017

THE NINTH ANNUAL GREAT GENEALOGY POETRY CHALLENGE

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It's time to start thinking about the Ninth Annual Great Genealogy Poetry Challenge! As in the past, I'll be posting the links to...
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'THE GOVERNOR'S TREE"

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I've written here before that a pear tree planted nearly 400 years ago by my 10x great grandfather Governor John Endicott  is still aliv...
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Monday, August 28, 2017

FINDMYPAST FRIDAY RELEASES FOR 25 AUGUST 2017

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The August 25th releases fro Findmypast Friday include over 3.3 million new records from Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom: BRAND N...