Historical Trivia, March 2018

“Mind your own bee’s wax!” Personal hygiene left much room for improvement. As a result, many women and men had developed acne scars by adulthood. The women would spread bee’s wax over their facial skin to smooth out their complexion. When they were speaking to each other, if a woman began to stare at another […]

“History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all”…Laurence Overmire (editor note: Google “Laurence Overmire”)

Go online to American Ancestors by New England Historic Genealogical Society. There are things you can do, download, and look at as a guest. Some of the topics are… Atlantic Canadian Resources, New York Resources, French Canadian Resources, Early Military Resources (Colonial Wars to War of 1812), Irish Resources, New England Vital Records, Getting Organized […]

Joseph Anderson, editor of The Maine Genealogist gave a good reminder in the February 2018 edition to read the articles for examples on how to reconstruct unrecorded families. Another good reminder was to read the footnotes. Even though an article may not be about your relatives, it may be about an area or town where […]

President’s Message, March 2018

Well, I guess if you live in some parts of the northeast you’ve had time to sit out the nor’easters and work on genealogy if you had electric power and didn’t have to shovel.  American Ancestors, as I’ve referenced in odds and ends, has a section on genealogy for the next generation. It talks about […]