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Reschedule original plan to add comments on the one above / below.
I had planned to go ahead with the next book on my list of why each is taking up bookshelf space in my den when I got sucked into looking at the just prior book and digging deeper int what … Continue reading
New Englanders in the 1600s
The Guide to Genealogical Research by Martin E Hollick was published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society. I bought it because I knew I should be able to find a number of my ancestors listed. P 17 – Botsford, … Continue reading
History of Seymour, Connecticut with Biographies and Genealogies – W. C. Sharpe
History of Seymour, Connecticut with Biographies and Genealogies by W. C. Sharpe was published by Record Print, Seymour, Connecticut in 1879. I must admit that what first caught my eye about this volume was that Seymour was one of the … Continue reading
Rolls and Lists of Connecticut Men in the Revolution 1775 – 1783
This is Volume VII, published by the Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, Connecticut, 1901. I knew I had a number of ancestors that either came from or stopped for a bit in Connecticut. I was aware that my line of the … Continue reading
Tioga County, New York, was a stop-over for my Jenks Line
Early on in my research into how my 4 times great-grandparents had migrated to Oakland County, Michigan, I was online in a genealogical site and when I mentioned my Jenks line, a distant cousin from New York told me I … Continue reading
Saugus, Massachusetts was home for the family in the 1600s
I found this volume on eBay a number of years ago. Since my research indicated that 8 and 9 times great grandfathers, Joesph Jenks and his son, Joseph Jenks, Jr. both had a hand in the development and building of … Continue reading
And Massachusetts, too…
Besides the author’s name drawing me to this work, I knew that a number of my ancestors passed through Lynn, Massachusetts in the mid 1600s. A number of ancestors appear through the book, and from pages 420 – 426, the … Continue reading
Then there is the Connecticut Family
I had joined the Descendants of Gov Thomas Welles of Connecticut at the urging of my distant cousin. Shortly after I joined, an initial version of the above was released. Then my 10th cousin, once removed, got really busy and … Continue reading
And then, back to the Norman Conquest of England …
The book on the Lee family pointed me to this book on the Stevens Genealogy – Some Descendants of the Fitz Stephen Family in England and New England by C. Ellis Stevens, 1905 As an introduction, the book begins: “The … Continue reading
The 400 Year Story of an American Family
My 5th cousin mentioned in a letter that there was this book about our Lee ancestors that I might want to find. The book was The 400 Year Story of an American Family, Characters, Communities & Contributions, by Paul B. … Continue reading
A Tree Grew in Oakland 