Canvass those cemeteries safely
It’s that time of year again when genealogists are apt to feel the urge to track down a family cemetery.
Family Discoverer
Listen and learn from noted Maine genealogists
Roxanne Moore Saucier, who authored the genealogical column “Family Ties” in the Bangor Daily News for so many years, once famously referred to Joe Anderson as the “bee’s knees.”
Finding our immigrant story
Immigration has long been a hot-button issue in this country politically as each generation wished to prohibit others from emigrating here.
Marriage between cousins
When a young neighbor learned her father and mother were first cousins her reaction was an instant “Ewww.” She was embarrassed to think her parents were so closely related.
Jobs add threads to family tapestry
Do you know how your ancestors earned their livings?
How removed are those cousins?
Even experienced genealogists find determining relationships challenging at times.
Maps can reveal family treasure
Maps are a great resource for genealogists.
Funeral home records
Funeral home records are one of the resources that many genealogists know exist, but few family hunters have used them.
Church records can help
Church records can be valuable aids in tracking your family. There are times when town records are non-existent, probate records of no help, deeds show nothing, and at those times church records can be the charm that provides the link you need. That is, if you can find them.
Don’t neglect those deeds
Most genealogists would rather have a root canal (or as one told me, give birth in a store window) than spend an afternoon at the Registry of Deeds tracking metes and bounds.