This Old Tree

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.

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This Old Tree, April 2017

Where Do You Look? This is going to be a short column. The topic is finding christening records in out of way places. Recently on April 1, 2017 I went

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This Old Tree, January 2017

— Allen Voisine, Contributor Over a year and half ago, the genealogical society received obituaries from the local Family History Library, I took it upon myself to create a spreadsheet

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This Old Tree, November 2016

This month’s column is a byproduct of my fall vacation. I did more research on some of my Lambert family of southern Maine and on Schnebeli family out of Pennsylvania.

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This Old Tree

Finding Sarah Davis of Cardigan, New Brunswick In June of 1819 a number of Welsh families settled in York County, New Brunswick. Among them was the family of William Davies/Davis

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This Old Tree, April 2016

This month’s column is about “red herrings” in death records.My example is a real person that I have in a branch of my family tree. One of the members of

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This Old Tree, February 2016

This month’s column is a combined effort of Brenda Bourgoine and Dennis Prue. It pays to skim through genealogy books of church records as there could be an entry that

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