The Mayflower left England with 102 passengers, including 43 men, 18 women (3 were pregnant), 12 girls and 31 young men and boys 21 y/o and younger. There were 103

For those who have or think they have royal ancestry you could check out the Burke’s Peerage website. A few things are available to look at for free.

I read an article in a journal from England where the author had some brick walls for years. He decided to look at his spinster aunts. They had done well

Some tombstone epitaphs were intended to be funny and others were not intended to be, but were. Some are from the northeast and perhaps are your relatives. In Memory of

In Colonial times you may find estranged spouses fighting it out in the newspaper. Today you may still see husbands saying they are not financially responsible for their wife’s debts

Some Colonial American words… Apartment (n) room in a building Bait (v) feed an animal Black (adj.) brunette Clever (adj.) well trained Fishy (adj.) drunk Flourish (n) a quickie Gossip

The National Library of Ireland will be putting 390,000 images of Catholic parish register microfilms online by summer 2015. This will be mainly baptisms and marriages between the 1740s and

From a form Frances Heales had on a relative – I asked what the word “Publican” meant and she said… A Publican has a license to run a public house.

For those not familiar with Latin, here are the Latin words found in a 1924 Catholic marriage record in Aroostook County: contrahentium nomina….the names of the couple uniting in marriage

Info in case you doing research in Russia and/or Ukraine. This was obtained from a friend from that area…. Since there’s no such name as Ann, I would be Anna.