Visiting and Searching Grave Sites
This month’s episode of This Old Tree is about how some of us are doing genealogy in the Covid-19 quarantine era. Several times this summer, Spike Savage has asked me to go with him to either take GPS readings of a gravesite or take pictures of headstones. It was just the two of us traveling […]
Special August Meeting
Good day. It’s with great joy to announce that ACGS is meeting at Jay Bullard’s home on Aug 23, 2020, for Jay’s annual Research and Potluck dinner. Unlike in previous years, there will be no potluck meal. Please bring instead your own meal; aka brown-bag your own food. No sharing. Some members are not willing […]
Turning to Online Research
On a wet June morning, Greetings to all genealogical minded. As restrictions imposed on us by Covid-19, doing research is different in that most town offices are or have been closed. The same is true for Libraries and Archives.
Using Obituaries to Fill in Gaps in Our Genealogy
This month’s column discusses using obituaries to fill in the holes in your family tree. In the last few weeks, I have learned of the death of a distant cousin named Sandy Cormier. I knew we were related but not sure how. I used her obituary to add her to my tree. So I hunted […]
Staying In Place With Genealogy
Greetings to all members, I hope this President’s address finds you in a quiet stay at home this Spring Season. I am happy to mention that several members have found little gemstones of information. The stay-in-place rule has allowed time to dig a little deeper in various websites and online newsletters to find new sources […]
The Dill Family of York Maine
For the first month of social distancing, I have been busy organizing some of my genealogy magazines and papers. I stated in my President’s message that we should try to do some genealogy and sorting of our papers. Well, I have been doing what I have been preaching to spend some of the Covid-19 shutdown […]
Stay Safe and Review Your Research
Greetings to all members We have had to cancel our society’s meetings for these two months due to the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak. The city of Caribou has requested that the Library, where we normally gather, cancel all meetings that the Library normally services. This is to help stop the spread of Coronavirus. The fewer […]
President’s Message, February 2020
My theme for everyone is to make use of the time when the weather is nasty and outside activities are at a stop. Use some of that time to update your various genealogy programs or to read some of the back issues of genealogical magazines that you have lying around the house. Once I finished […]
President’s Message, January 2020
Greeting and Happy New Years, As the New Year starts, take a minute to reflect on the past year. I hope you made some genealogical headway. Now is the start of a New Year and new plans. My plans are to try to fill in missing death dates for the many cousins I have. Here […]
This Old Tree, January 2020
“Find a Grave” has Wills!!! This column is about the value of finding copies of the wills of your ancestors. Today, on January 11, 2020, I was fortunate enough to run across a copy of the wills of a man and his wife from Culpeper County, Virginia. Both wills were found on the “Find a […]