President’s Message, October 2011
This month I want to share some information about an organization and a website that I’ve found quite useful. About a year ago, the New England Historical Genealogical Society changed […]
President’s Message, September 2011
– By Richard Kimball An interesting quirk had me confused for a while. Some of my Ruee ancestors lived in New Castle, New Hampshire and vicinity for about 70 years […]
President’s Message, June 2011
This month I have discovered a couple of tools that have considerable potential. The first tool is a next step in the Fairmount Cemetery Project. Dr. Chunzeng Wang has sent […]
President’s Message, April 2011
– By Richard Kimball, President Late last week I was privileged to attend the New England Regional Genealogical Conference 2011 in Springfield, MA. Just as in the two previous NERGCs […]
LD 1781 Update
Helen Shaw sent Jay the following update on LD 1781 An Act To Allow Electronic Filing of Vital Records and Closing of Records To Guard against Fraud and Make Other […]
Newspaper Project
The Aroostook County Genealogical Society was given the opportunity to save some important genealogical information collected by Bertha Philbrook. Bertha has been saving newspapers for the last 50 years or […]
Recording Locations
Reprinted from the November 2009 newsletter by Jay Bullard In recording data into your files, how do you record the location where and when a historical event or fact happened? […]
The Orphan Trains
Reprinted from the September 2009 newsletter: There were about 200,000 orphans in the United States in the 1850s, with as many as 30,000 living on the streets of New York […]