A reminder… When you hit a brick wall, stop and think. You can’t always go at something straight on. You need to think outside the box.

Check American Ancestors of NEHGS homepage… www.americanancestors.org Click “The bookstore” They have a list of remaindered books (extras etc.) which they have for sale. There

“History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all”…Laurence Overmire (editor note: Google “Laurence Overmire”)

Go online to American Ancestors by New England Historic Genealogical Society. There are things you can do, download, and look at as a guest. Some

Joseph Anderson, editor of The Maine Genealogist gave a good reminder in the February 2018 edition to read the articles for examples on how to

Just a reminder, go to the Internet Archive (a non-profit in the San Francisco area) and type in Maine history, or genealogy, or whatever state,

I recently was looking at microfilm of surveyor’s field notes for Maysville. The index seemed to have all Aroostook County towns. I was looking at

The John Jay College of Criminal Justice has a searchable online New York State Slavery Index. It covers from around 1525 to during the Civil

Apparently before 1066 in Britain people usually weren’t using surnames. After the Norman conquest, the Anglo-Saxons took Norman first names. The most popular first names

The genealogical guides for each of the 15 New Brunswick Counties have been updated and are available as a downloadable PDF at the following link: