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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. – William Shakespeare

Historical Trivia, January 2020

January 22, 2020/Comments Off on Historical Trivia, January 2020

The Upper Crust

Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the upper crust.

Orlan Smith

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  • More Research Gems from “The Maine Genealogist”
    March 22, 2020 | 9:44 am

    Sangerville, ME 2/2001 Vol 23, No 1, pages 9-11

    Out of Line: The Transcribed Sangerville, ME Marriage Records by Bill Principe:

    A prior publication of these marriage records listed a lot of married individuals as being married to the wrong spouse.

    The Eleven Lost Days by Robert Carver Brooks

    8/1999 Vol 21, No. 3 pages 99-110: This is why we have a few years where you have to write the correct date for your ancestor birth or death date as 8 Mar 1685/1686

  • Research Gems from “The Maine Genealogist”
    March 22, 2020 | 9:42 am

    Kittery, ME, Third Parish Church Records from a manuscript prepared by Dr. John Eldridge Frost:

    • 8/1999 Vol 21, No. 3, pages 125-132
    • 11/1999 Vol 21, No. 4, pages 173-176
    • 2/2000 Vol 21, No. 1, pages 25-30
    • 5/2000 Vol 21, No. 2, pages 95-93
    • 8/2000 Vol 21, No. 3, pages 139-140
    • 11/2000 Vol 21, No. 4, pages 180-182

    Kittery, ME, Second Parish Baptisms 1721-1831 from a typescript prepared by Dr. John Eldridge Frost:

    • 8/2003 Vol 25, No, 3, pages 134-141
    • 11/2003 Vol 25, No, 4, pages 180-190
    • 2/2004 Vol 26, No. 1, pages 43-46
    • 5/2004 Vol 26, No. 2, pages 83-93
    • 8/2004 Vol 26, No. 3, pages 138-141
    • 11/2004 Vol 26, No. 4, pages 183-189

    Vol No 4 each year has an every-name index for all four issues of that year’s publications.


  • February 24, 2020 | 10:55 am

    From working on a Mayflower lineage for someone:

    When using the Five Generation/Silver Books they may actually have a 6th and 7th generation in them for some lines. It sometimes took until those later generations to verify the 5th.

    When doing a person’s line we only had to submit proof for the last 4 or 5 lines. They accept the first 5-7 generations which have already been documented in the Silver Book series. This speeds up the application process.

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