Growing Obituary Collection

— Submitted by Allen Voisine A while back, Arlene Belanger donated to our group, her mother’s newspaper collection. A few members had gathered at Arlene’s home and reduced the accumulated newspapers to contain only the obituary pages from those newspapers. Wanting to create more space in her shed, Arlene and her son brought me five […]

Words of Wisdom From Mark Twain, Part 1

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. Age is an issue of the mind […]

Research on Aaron Smith and the Order of the Orange

Special Note: This month’s article is by guest author, Orlan Smith Over the years I have been collecting two magazines called “Discover Maine” and “Paper Talks.” They tell the story of Maine History. I collect the ones that talk about Aroostook County. They tell the story of the people places and things that happened long […]

The Importance of Correct Information in Family Trees

No doubt I’m being repetitive but, there are folks out there who post incorrect information on online family trees saying they have an ancestor who was Native American. NOT! They think this because they do not understand what they are looking at. I’ll use my ancestors as an example. The 1851 New Brunswick census has […]

I have two pictures of soldiers, who were friends of my grandfather, in their uniforms from WWI. William J. LaClair of So Brewer It’s a studio photo taken in Coblenz. Walter Butler of Rockland It’s on a carte postale. They were in the Meuse-Argonne. They had been in the N.G. in Bangor before being called […]

Helping ACGS Member To Use Caribou Library Sources

I hope Santa Claus brought everyone what they wished for as well as good health over the holidays. Now we began a new year. I would like to receive ideas at the January meeting as to what the membership would like for programs for the year 2022. For January, Dennis suggested that members bring in […]