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Family Ties

19℉ A Few Clouds
December 12, 2019
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    ‘So long’ from a grateful family history columnist

    My heart is full as I write this last Family Ties. Read More
        FAMILY TIES

        Writing up your own obituary is time well spent

        Writing one’s obit may strike some people as arrogant. I don’t see it that way. Read More
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            Long chart lists 19th century Mormon’s 4 wives, 42 children

            The vertical chart listing the family of Edmund Lovell Ellsworth, “captain of the first handcart company,” is more than 5½ feet long. The term handcart company refers to the group that migrated from Iowa City to Utah in 1856. Compiled some years ago by descendant John… Read More
                FAMILY TIES

                ‘Modern Family’ star grateful to black pioneer ancestor

                A bit of truth and a lot of trimmings. That’s how we view most family stories — unless they’re ours. The popular family history program “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.” on PBS made a great start to its new season on Jan. 5 by looking… Read More
                    FAMILY TIES

                    April workshop to feature blogger on DNA genealogy

                    I wasn’t familiar with the name Blaine Bettinger, but I expect to know a lot more about him by April 23, which is the date when he will give the keynote address and three other talks plus take part in a question-and-answer panel during the Maine Genealogical Society’s… Read More
                        FAMILY TIES

                        DNA test suggests Franco-American husband is British, Spanish

                        Family Ties: So what’s the deal? Was the test just defective? There are other explanations. Read More
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                            Cherokees, Sioux may find Maine ancestors under Christmas tree

                            Dr. Edward Rackleff died in Arkansas, leaving numerous descendants, among them members of Cherokee and Sioux tribes. One of his Caucasian children was even adopted by the Cherokee Nation as an adult. Read More
                                FAMILY TIES

                                Published, church records a good source for extra info on our forebears

                                I do love it when published records include information about someone’s “someplace else.” Read More
                                    FAMILY TIES

                                    On veterans who are 90 — and 80

                                    Interview your dad or your mom or your uncle or your neighbor or your classmate. I promise you that doing so will establish a connection that will survive, that will outlast the actual experience. Read More
                                        FAMILY TIES

                                        Online database of vital records helps sort out Bulls

                                        Yes, I’m fond of books, but I certainly appreciate a database that is available to me by computer. Read More
                                            FAMILY TIES

                                            Thanksgiving thoughts of Pilgrims, Penobscots

                                            Thanksgiving remains a special day for me in terms of my family and our heritage, the sacrifices of those who came to a “new” country and became part of its fabric and also gratitude to the Native Americans who were so generous to the Pilgrims. Read More
                                                FAMILY TIES

                                                Three Maine sailors, one wide Pacific Ocean

                                                Family Ties: Look up a ship, a plane, a helicopter, a half-track, a military unit, a division, a battle, a base, a fort. Who knows what you may learn — and perhaps you’ll meet someone you never thought you would. Read More
                                                    FAMILY TIES

                                                    National Archives offers military databases online

                                                    Family Ties: With Veterans Day coming up Wednesday, I have been interested in what the National Archives has online for databases. Read More
                                                        FAMILY TIES

                                                        Tuberculosis among diseases of the past that haven’t disappeared

                                                        It is 130 years since consumption took the life of my great-great-great-grandmother, Roxanna Briggs Bennett, in Abbot, some three years before the tuberculosis bacillus was identified. Consumption was certainly no effort to find a gentle description for this wasting disease, which was believed to eat away the lungs… Read More
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                                                            City directory information augments census, vital records

                                                            City directories and vital records can augment and clarify decennial census data. Read More
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                                                                Lost in a hurricane: ‘They that go down to the sea in ships’

                                                                “The sea washed over them and they were gone … We shall not forget them.” Read More
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                                                                    Not all French descendants in Gulf area were deported Acadians

                                                                    New Englander that I am, married to a man whose ancestors seem to be exclusively Franco-American — French-Canadians from Quebec and Acadians from what is now Nova Scotia — I wouldn’t normally be drawn to a book with “Mississippi” in the title. But of course, it… Read More
                                                                        FAMILY TIES

                                                                        Maine speaker on DNA testing in genealogy gives compelling program

                                                                        So far, I’ve taken just one DNA genealogy test — the saliva test that uses autosomal results from genetic material on nonsex genes. Simply put, my result estimated my ethnicity as 74 percent British, 11 percent Irish and 10 percent Western Europe (German and French, I’m guessing.) I… Read More
                                                                            FAMILY TIES

                                                                            2,100 books give boost to UMaine Franco-American Centre

                                                                            My husband’s great-grandmother was Marie Anne (Corbin), the first wife of Antoine Saucier of Fort Kent. Her uncle Guillaume Corbin married Lucie Ringuette in 1843, which I point out only to illustrate what a small world it is. The small world at the Franco-American Centre —… Read More
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                                                                                Paintings yield clues to Scottish ancestry

                                                                                Another possible clue to Ga’s Scottish ancestry, from yet another painting ... Read More
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