Aroostook County Genealogical Society

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. – William Shakespeare

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Ann Cushman provides a marvelous resource of odds and ends and tidbits and stuff from the unusual to the amusing. In between, you might find a clue or a new source of information to aid your research.

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125,000 personal files and staff records for Bethlem Royal Hospital (“Bedlam”) are being digitized and put on Find My Past.

The archives are from 1683-1932. Apparently you can read about the man who was committed for trying to kill George III with a dessert knife. A man was committed for writing a dictionary of technology in 3 languages.