How I got interested in genealogy
From the time I was very young, my mother would tell me that I looked like Cousin Alice when I pouted and talk about how Daisy (her nickname) would pout to get her own way. And then she would stick …
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Return on investment, or why it pays to contact local people
I’ve recently had several experiences that remind me how useful it can be to use your email to ask discrete questions about a family line you’re following. Phone calls work the same way – but calling England doesn’t occur to …
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Best headstone yet!
This quintessential New England church is the First Congregational Church in Becket Massachusetts. I think that it was built around 1850 as a replacement for the older church that had originally served this village. There is a small plaque on …
Road Trip to Connecticut
The middle of the fourth week in June, after school let out, my sister and I headed to the northeastern corner of Connecticut on a short vacation and genealogy trip. I am the genealogist in our family, but my sister …
Why We Do It
I was hoping to continue on the family secrets theme, but after spending a weekend with my family I decided that I prefer keeping the family secrets to dying a slow and painful death. So instead I thought I would …