President’s Message, October 2015
Labor Day has come and gone, fall must be here. The temperatures fluctuate so much, some days are like summer, others like late fall. Just like we prepare our homes for the upcoming winter we should get our genealogical items organized in order to know what we need to research next. Procrastination is an awful […]
President’s Message, September 2015
Summer is gone, but we have some beautiful fall weather yet. You can walk cemeteries, as it may not be too hot which it can be unsafe at times. I am planning to revisit some that I did many years ago. I have a better camera now and have done more research so hoping to […]
President’s Message, August 2015
Is everyone as busy as I am this summer? From what I hear I think so. Before I went to the Genealogy Fair in Augusta I got to do some research in Skowhegan. That fair was well attended and we talked to lots of people and now many more know about ACGS and what we […]
Genealogy Records
by Frances Heales There are three sorts of documents that are helpful in genealogy: Church records, Official Records and Family Records. My interest in family history was sparked by finding very informal record: a card in my paternal grandparents’ home. It wished’ cousin Janey and Jim a Happy Christmas from Janey and Arthur’. I knew […]
President’s Message, May/June 2015
At this time the Aroostook County Civil War Veterans database is just about completed. What a major under-taking it has been! Doing varying amounts of research on soldiers were: Allen, Ann, Barbara, Dennis, Frances, Linda, Orlan, Spike and myself. Linda has spearheaded this work, doing all the typing, doing a lot of the research and […]
President’s Message, April 2015
As I sit to write this, I am totally surrounded by books! It’s a good place to be. Our group has had some great donations to our collection. Allen is moving, he has downsized and we have been the recipients of much of his collection. At the same time we are unpacking the donation that […]
President’s Message, March 2015
Warm greetings to all What a snowy winter it is! Have you been able to do any research? On one of the very few nice days I was able to get to the Northern Registry of Deeds, I found some new facts about one of the Civil War soldiers from Ft. Kent who was on […]
President’s Message, February 2015
Are you getting more genealogy done this winter because of the cold and snow? Once we are home from work or volunteering for the day, we are reluctant to go out again, plus after getting the snow blowing and shoveling done we may need a diversion. Spring will come sometime, in the meantime this is […]
A Tale of Two Beautiful Roses from the Civil War Era
In looking for further information on Francis Cyr born as Francois Cyr, a Civil War Soldier from Van Buren,(using: www.familysearch.org), I found that he was married to Mary Belrose in Augusta, Maine on 21 September or 11 October 1863. I took the later date as most it highly likely it was when he got married […]
The Aroostook County Civil War Enlistments Book
(Fair project for 2015) by Linda Zapatka The book is to establish as many as possible men that enlisted from Aroostook County Towns. Would like to locate the men in the 1860 Census, where they were before enlistment and if they made it back, where they were in the 1870 Census, after that would like […]