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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You may see these words used in old newspapers and I’ve seen them on tombstones:

consort: wife, husband, companion, a deceased woman who leaves behind a surviving spouse

relict: surviving spouse usually a widow, an archaic word