A Tale of Two Beautiful Roses from the Civil War Era

In looking for further information on Francis Cyr born as Francois Cyr, a Civil War Soldier from Van Buren,(using: www.familysearch.org), I found that he was married to Mary Belrose in Augusta, Maine on 21 September or 11 October 1863. I took the later date as most it highly likely it was when he got married […]

The Aroostook County Civil War Enlistments Book

(Fair project for 2015) by Linda Zapatka The book is to establish as many as possible men that enlisted from Aroostook County Towns. Would like to locate the men in the 1860 Census, where they were before enlistment and if they made it back, where they were in the 1870 Census, after that would like […]

Genealogy Road Show on PBS

The other night I watched the Genealogy Road Show on PBS. One of the individuals being helped was a woman who had information that her mother birth record listed her mother’s race as colored. The lady wanted to know if this was a mistake or if her mother was really colored? The genealogist was able […]

This Old Tree, January 2015

This month’s column is the first in a series of the William Tibbett’s Family of Harmony, ME. One of our members, Jay Bullard has several lines of Tibbetts. He has two Tibbett’s brick walls, his ancestors Daniel Tibbetts and James Tibbetts. Jay’s ancestor Daniel Tibbett father is a man named William. William Tibbetts is married […]

For those not familiar with Latin, here are the Latin words found in a 1924 Catholic marriage record in Aroostook County: contrahentium nomina….the names of the couple uniting in marriage die….day mensis ….month AD ….year missis …. __O__ here would mean releasing, discharging, consenting, no issues with the marriage (i.e. _O_ no dispensation granted) bannis, […]

Info in case you doing research in Russia and/or Ukraine. This was obtained from a friend from that area…. Since there’s no such name as Ann, I would be Anna. To be polite in addressing me I would be: Anna Owena… “Anna daughter of Owen”

“FAMILY Like branches on a tree We grow in different directions Yet Our Roots Remain As One”

President’s Message, January 2015

Happy 2015 to all, my New Years’ wish is that everyone find something previously unknown about at least one ancestor. As we begin our 11th year at ACGS, we have plans to make and projects we hope to complete this year. I would like to give a big Thank-you to: Spike, out-going president; Frances, secretary; […]