This Old Tree, June 2018

Helping Others Can Have Unexpected Benefits This is Part Two on the Search to Break a Brick Wall Orlan Smith, of our local genealogy group, was given a possible hint as to who his Second-great grandfather’s parents might be by Karen from the museum on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick. Like I said in last month’s […]

Don’t assume that because your ancestors were poor that there aren’t records of them. Check out records from prisons, almshouses, orphanages, charity societies, and advertisements for runaway indentured servants.

Search for Scottish POWs in the Colonies. You’ll find lists of men who came to America as indentured servants. They were listed as property.

The Amesbury, Essex Co. Mass. public works department has a database for the cemeteries they maintain. This is a good reminder to see what other cemeteries have an online presence. It could save you a trip or put a trip on your to-do list.  Check out the York, Maine online cemetery records.

Look up the genealogical proof standard. It will explain what that means and there are also forms to help you do “due diligence” to achieve the standard. This is a reminder to go over your work from years past as you have gained new and better skills over the years. There may also be more […]

Quakers issued certificates for many reasons including to be used as an introduction when they moved to a new town or even if they had been expelled from their group. The records aren’t really centralized so search for Quaker Information Center and their site has some helpful information on where to look.

Archival Notes, June 2018

Summer is finally here! I hope you are getting out to do research. Our ACGS group continues to get requests for help from away. Some persons contact us through our website, Facebook, our private e-mails and in calls to local libraries who refer them to us. Ann, Dennis, Allen and I have collaborated to answer […]

President’s Message, June 2018

Greetings, Hope you are all having fun with your summer research and making lots of discoveries. Try and go to genealogy meetings when you can. Not only can you learn from others…they can learn from you. We all have a lot of knowledge that we’ve picked up along the way. We should try and pass […]

“The Family Gene”

A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance into a Hopeful Future By Joselin Linder Pub 2017 by Harper Collins Publishers This book is about a mutation of a gene that Joselin Linder inherited from her grandfather for sure and how it only shows obvious symptoms for male or female when reaching middle age. This is […]

The Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independence

Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence? Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army; another had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 […]