Genealogy Road Show

RTE which is Ireland’s national TV and radio broadcaster has licensed their “Genealogy Road Show” to PBS. The episodes will start to air in Sept. Traveling experts will try and piece together the genealogy of ordinary people from different cities in the U.S.

Genealogy is “web-like”

There was an interesting article dated 7 May 2013 in a National Geographic blog. Statisticians and geneticists looked at the “web-like” tapestry that is genealogy.

Down Survey

An article in Independent.ie explains about a collection of maps assembled in Trinity College Dublin that reveals the ownership of lands taken from Irish families and given to landlords during the Cromwellian Plantation of 1670. It’s called the Down Survey which refers to the chains put on the ground to measure the land. This survey […]

Where did they go?

Do you have people who just seem to have disappeared? Try contacting the local library, historical society, or genealogical group in the town or county where they were last found. They may have unique resources that can help you.

Shifting Borders

Shifting borders in Europe can cause confusion about an ancestor’s country of origin that may be noted in census or official records. See if their language is noted. That would be more pertinent information to give you clues to go on.

Old Newspapers in Houlton, ME

When you live in area that was once part of the wilderness, finding records can be a challenge! When an area is first being settled, there is no town and no one required to records the settlement records. This was true of the Caribou area. Caribou early town records are mainly marriage records and few […]

This Old Tree, June 2013

This month’s column is a reflection of a quote from a member, Calvin Hall, about looking at one record, or for more information on a person, you most often have to review again the previous looked at material. This has been true when review original church records for the 1790 Book out the Ste. Anne […]

Vice President’s Message, June 2013

Lately I have been thinking about the work I have done with genealogy. I have talked about what I learned over the last twenty years but my knowledge of family history was very limited before that. There is an unwritten rule that said there is only one person per generation doing genealogy. For me I […]