This Old Tree, June 2018
Helping Others Can Have Unexpected Benefits This is Part Two on the Search to Break a Brick Wall Orlan Smith, of our local genealogy group, was given a possible hint as […]
This Old Tree, May 2018
Helping Others Can Have Unexpected Benefits By Finding Your Own Ancestry Records This month’s column is about the benefits of helping fellow genealogists (or those trying to do their family […]
This Old Tree, March 2018
Irish Ancestry Records And How to Find Them In March I often think St Patrick Day. I know that I have Irish ancestors because my mother was s McConnell who […]
This Old Tree, February 2018
Name Changes over Time And How to Find Them Most people seek to find who their first known ancestors in North America are and where they came from back in […]
This Old Tree, January 2018
Looking at the Living Relatives And Where to Find Them This is the start of a new year for genealogical research. I am suggesting that the readers of this column […]
This Old Tree, November 2017
Your Family’s Vital Records and where to find them. There are many sources that are available for doing research. The problem stems from either not knowing where to find the […]
This Old Tree, October 2017
Did You Really Read the Records? This month’s column is about reading early records carefully. One can be overjoyed to find proof of your ancestor’s vital records that you recorded […]
This Old Tree, August 2017
Who Is Mary Ann, wife of Stephen Cobb? There is a lone headstone on the side of Aroostook Road 9 miles due south from the Cross Road in Benedicta, Maine. […]
This Old Tree, June 2017
Who’s My Daddy and Who’s My Mommy? By Guest Poster Allen J. Voisine This is what I know of Jean Philippe Lang or sometimes Long my 5th great grandfather who […]
This Old Tree, May 2017
This month I would like to remind all the readers, especially those that are just getting started, to not forget the female side of your ancestry. Many of the women are just facts and figures without a lot known of their individual lives in many trees.