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Monday, June 29, 2020

53 ANCESTORS #6:WILLIAM HASKELL SR. OF GLOUCESTER, MA.

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My 5x great grandparents were 3rd cousins, both descendants of my immigrant ancestor William Haskell Sr. of Gloucester, Ma. I found this art...
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Friday, June 26, 2020

53 ANCESTORS #5:JOHN SAFFORD .OF HARVARD, MA.

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John Safford of Harvard, Ma. is another ancestor who I haven't found out  mu 6March about so far. I know he was born to Thomas Safford a...
Saturday, June 20, 2020

FATHERS DAY 2020

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In honor of Fathers Day I'm posting pictures of some of the fathers on my family tree. From the Wests: Our Dad, Floyd E West, Jr. ...
Thursday, May 28, 2020

APOLOGIES TO THOSE WHO HAVE LEFT COMMENTS

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Once again I need to apologize to my readers. I recently realized I hadn't seen any comments on the few blogposts I've made since my...
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Thursday, May 14, 2020

53 ANCESTORS #4:THOMAS:SAFFORD JR.OF IPSWICH, MA.

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i haven't found much online about Thomas Safford the son of John Safford. He was named after his grandfather the immigrant Thomas Saffor...
Saturday, May 09, 2020

MOTHERS DAY PT2

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In honor of Mother's Day, here are pictures of our Dad's female ancestors. First, on his mother's side: Amos H Barker ...
Friday, May 08, 2020

MOTHERS DAY

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Once again for Mothers Day I'm posting photos of our family's mothers, starting with the maternal line of my family.. For our Mom...
Tuesday, May 05, 2020

53 ANCESTORS #3: JOHN SAFFORD OF IPSWICH, MA.

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John Safford is my 8x great grandfather. Here is what Ellery Bicknell Crane wrote about him. "John Safford, son of Thomas Safford,, w...
Sunday, April 19, 2020

THE SHOT HEARD `ROUND THE WORLD

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Today is the 245th Anniversary of the Battles of Lexington & Concord which started the American Revolution on 19Apr 1775. These are o...
Friday, February 28, 2020

MY VERY LATE BELATED HAPPY 13TH BLOGIVERSARY POST

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I usually celebrate my blogiversary at the end of January. But this year a medical problem  prevented that. So this is a very belated and br...
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Friday, January 10, 2020

53 ANCESTORS IN 53 WEEKS WEEK #2: THOMAS SAFFORD OF IPSWICH, MA.

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My 4x great grandfather Moses Houghton married Martha Haskell. Her parents, Samuel Haskell and Ruth Safford, were Haskell 3rd cousins, and R...
Monday, January 06, 2020

2019 BY THE NUMBERS

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For the most part 2019 was a productive research year, except for posts on the poor old Old Colony  Genealogy Rabbit  Database: My resear...
Friday, January 03, 2020

53 ANCESTORS IN 53 WEEKS 2019 WEEK 1 :SAMUEL WOODS OF GROTON, MA.

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My 9x great grandparents Samuel Woods and Alice Rushton were also among the origimal settlers of Groton, Ma. and as such were witnesses to e...
Wednesday, January 01, 2020

THE TARBELL FAMILY AND THE INDIAN WARS PT4

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Samuel Abbott Green devoted quite a bit of research for his book to the Tarbell incident. He dicussed the various versions of what happened....

MY 2020 GENEAPLANS

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So it's another year and another list of geneaplans. A lot of them are the same as every year but a few have been modified out of necess...
Tuesday, December 31, 2019

MY 2019 GENEAPLANS: HOW WELL DID I DO?

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While 2019 was not as bad a year as 2018 for meeting my genealogy goals, it wasn't entirely successful. I didn't make any of the roa...
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Monday, December 30, 2019

THE TARBELL FAMILY AND THE INDIAN WARS PT3

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The story of the capture of the Tarbell children and their susequent fate was written about in books and magazine articles right up into th...
Sunday, December 29, 2019

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2019 WEEK 52:WILLIAM LONGLEY. OF GROTON, MA.

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My 10x great grandfather was another immigrant ancestor and prominent citizen of Groton, Ma.  From Ellery Bicknell Crane's Historic Home...
Thursday, December 26, 2019

THE TARBELL FAMILY AND THE INDIAN WARS PT2: "A TERRIBLE FATALITY"

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I've mentioned before how the Indian wars in colonial Massachusetts had an effec on my family history. I recently found this in Samuel A...
Wednesday, December 25, 2019

THE TARBELL FAMILY AND THE INDIAN WARS PT1

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I was researching the tragedy of Thomas Tarbell  III's family when I came across this account of an incident that took place before King...