The NEGHS now have a new searchable database: the 1916-1920 Massachusettes Vital Records through their partnership with Family Search. This also includes amendments to the Vital Records from 1841 to 1920.

Mind your P’s and Q’s

At local taverns, pubs, and bars, people drank from pint and quart-sized containers. A bar maid’s job was to keep an eye on the customers and keep the drinks coming. She had to pay close attention and remember who was drinking in ‘pints’ and who was drinking in ‘quarts,’ hence the phrase ‘minding your ‘P’s […]

President’s Message, September 2018

Greetings Genealogy Junkies! Hope your summer research and travels are fruitful. I was pleased the other day when my grand niece told me that when she goes back to school for third grade that she would be learning cursive. I told her I was so happy. I told her that we could read my grandfather’s […]

A reminder that the Old Town library has digitized local newspapers and also town reports.

The Fort Fairfield digitized newspapers have items of interest from nearby local and Canadian towns.

Don’t forget to check out family associations. They may have genealogical information helpful to you. Many have family reunions or picnics etc. Some associations are for descendants of early settlers of a specific geographical area.

There are now on line support groups for people who did their DNA’s and found out they’re not who they thought they were.

This Old Tree, September 2018

August is reminding us that the summer is coming to an end. Meaning that for me it is time to look over all my different lines and see what is missing. I was looking for information for one family out of York, Maine. I reviewed the early families in the York, Maine. I had little […]

You may want to consider searching for digitized papers by town. There may be information out there that you can access without paying a fee. Don’t forget that new information is going online all the time.

The Caribou library has started to digitize their newspapers.