Restland Cemetery located behind the Wilmington Congregational Church on Route 9, Wilmington, Vermont. This side of town appeared to have been spared much of the wrath of Hurricane Irene, but businesses along Main Street are busy with repairs. On Route 9 from Brattleboro we passed several … [Read more...]
Ancestor Hunting in Vermont
I am off to the backroads of one my favorite New England haunts for a bit of leaf peeping and ancestor hunting. I expect to find corn mazes, punkins, and maybe a grandson hiding in the leaves. Last spring Mr. Curator and I tromped around Winsdor County cemeteries looking for my elusive maternal gggf … [Read more...]
Would it be unethical to tell you about Grandma?
I love presents that arrive at my Inbox. The New England Historic Genealogical Society Weekly Digest is one of the best, and it just keeps coming. I always learn something new from the team of researchers at NEHGS; they have a knack for discovering interesting tidbits in the world of family history … [Read more...]
An Accumulation of Archives?
I'm proposing a new collective noun for my current state of affairs. We've run into the time of life when older relatives seem to be passing away at an average of about one every four months. The hardest to bear was certainnly losing my mom in 2010, but in the past fifteen months we've also lost two … [Read more...]
Finding Baptism Records in Unexpected Places
Today I opened my old high school scrapbook in search of the address of the church I attended as a teenager. I wanted to learn what happened to Bethany Baptist Church and hoped to find a photo for my article at the new Catholic genealogy blog, CatholicGene. Unlike Catholic churches that tend to stay … [Read more...]
Short List: What to watch for in a family archive
Can a genealogist ever have too much stuff? And, what do you do with all that inherited treasure? Allison Stacy, Editor at Family Tree Magazine, posed the question of how to Organize Grandma's Archive in the current issue of Family Tree Magazine and recently on the Genealogy Insider blog. Readers … [Read more...]
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