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,

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

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

“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,

Patrick Connelly was from Ireland and he settled in what is now Caribou, Maine in December of 1829. Caribou was then called Eaton Grant and

This column is about death records. I have sent for and received two death records for members of my family. The two were Tallman Kelley,

This is the rest of the story on Charles Tray and Catherine Bishop. Part 3 I was able to know who the oldest two Children

The Mystery of Charles Tray and Catherine Bishop, part 2 In my last column in Nov. 2018 I had found Charles Tray Family in Old

The mystery of Charles Trade and Katrina Bishop The facts as they appear are straight forward. There is a marriage record in Old Town, Maine

This time the topic is making use of a valuable resource that is often overlooked: namely, the University of Maine at Orono Campus‘s Fogler Library.