The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. – William Shakespeare
“Femes soles” means women alone: unmarried, widowed, or divorced. They had a lot more rights than a feme covert. “Feme covert” means married woman. Back in Europe, women did have
*From research at library.hbs.edu. (Harvard Business School) Read about the rights or lack thereof of women in Women, Enterprise & Society. It is about Women and the Law with sections
*From research such as The Great Courses, The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World by Prof. Robert Garland comes this: In 3100 BC, Egypt women could
Speaking with a cousin today, he related how when he was in high school, he and a friend were riding around in Moro Plt. in the mid-60s and saw an
The Mayflower Quarterly Magazine started a three-part series, with the spring 2022 edition about the ships that followed the Mayflower. There are no surviving passenger lists so they had to
Why is it called New Portland in Somerset County? It was given to people from Falmouth (now Portland) after it was destroyed by the British Fleet in 1783. There’s a
When you’re looking for ancestors from certain towns or don’t know where they came from, don’t forget the Maine Registers. You may find them listed as town fathers or listed under
Hopefully, you saw the 60 Minutes episode on CBS last month about the man who bought a house in Virginia that was on the plantation where his ancestors had been
The Bangor Daily News has articles on the use of the death penalty in Maine that is very interesting and they do contain genealogical info.
There is an interesting article in the Maine Archives and Museums Quarterly from the May 2022 issue: “Cemeteries as Museums by Ron Romano.”