Welcome to my Genealogy Blog.

Why not spend a minute or two at my Blog to see if there is anything interesting to read. Perhaps I've written something about your ancestor, gave a hint on how to locate something, provided a different way to do research, or just gave a glimpse into the world of genealogy research through words or photos. I try to make it light and enjoyable.

My roots are from New England (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire), New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, Wyoming, and the Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada.

Please check out the labels on the right side for articles. The header tabs at the top are a work in progress.

I also have a blog called Seeing New England. Why not visit it, to get a feeling for the area.

RESOURCES: GENEALOGY SITES

UNDER CONSTRUCTION, BUT THERE ARE SOME NEW SITES BELOW.

June /14/2013

New for June 2013 Census for Lower Canada, 1825 http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/1825/Pages/1825.aspx

Michigan, every site, great post by Brenda http://journeytothepastblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/pure-michigan-genealogy-records.html?showComment=1369073247237#c1106907637148149776

https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Genesee_County,_New_York

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ATLAS OF HISTORICAL COUNTY BOUNDARIES

http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/

Familysearch will send you copies from their microfilm. You have to order them via their form (snail mail), and give them your credit card. However, if you have them email you the material instead of mailing it back, it is free and they don't charge you. https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/images/5/5f/Request_for_Photocopies.pdf

http://archive.org/browse.php?field=subject&mediatype=texts&collection=genealogy

https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/images/5/5f/Request_for_Photocopies.pdf

http://www.linkpendium.com/

Books:

Google Books Project: http://books.google.com
http://books.familysearch.org
Internet Archive: www.archive.org

Archives:

Delaware Heritage Collection: http://cdm16397.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/
University of Vermont Center for Digital Initiatives: http://cdi.uvm.edu/collections/index.xql

Libraries:

Allen County Public Library / Genealogy Center: www.genealogycenter.org

Newspapers:
Northern New York Historical Newspapers: http://nnyln.net

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/newspapers/

New Genealogy Search Engine: www.Movaco.com (read Dick Eastman's article: http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2011/12/mocavo-plus-the-next-generation-of-genealogy-search-engine.html

FORMS:

http://www.familytreemagazine.com/freeforms

US Map Collections
http://geology.com/state-map/

CEMETERIES:

Canada: http://www.interment.net/can/qc/index.htm

New York Gravestones: http://www.newyorkgravestones.org/

1940 Census for Kansas https://www.familysearch.org/1940census/1940-census-kansas/

http://www.daddezio.com/

cemetery/junction/index.html

MASSACHUSETTS CEMETERIES

Middlesex County, MA Cemetery Listing

http://www.mass-doc.com/

middlesex_county_cemetery_

guide.htm

Marlborough, MA Cemeteries

http://freepages.history.

rootsweb.com/~

historyofmarlborough/cemetery.
htm#Old Marlborough

A VERY GRAVE MATTER

http://www.gravematter.com/

default.asp MA

Newspapers:
http://news.google.com/newspapers

OLD Maps
http://www.old-maps.com/index.htm

MASSACHUSETTS

http://ma-vitalrecords.org/

http://www.rootsweb.com/~

magenweb/

http://www.rootsweb.com/~

masgi/

http://freepages.books.

rootsweb.com/~rbrown/salem/

index.htm Salem

http://www.yeoldewoburn.net/

http://www.mass-doc.com/

middlesex_county_cemetery_

guide.htm MA

http://search.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=List&dbid=2495 Ancestry -- MA huge database

RHODE ISLAND

8 Free Rhode Island Resources by Diane Boumenot of the blog, One Rhode Island Family. http://onerhodeislandfamily.com/2012/03/27/10-free-rhode-island-resources/

CONNECTICUT

https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Connecticut_Probate_Records

Connecticut History Online (A lot of images of Connecticut, including the Latimer House in Chesterfield)

Connecticut Society of Genealogists (Several maps from different periods.)

University of Connecticut (Colonial Connecticut Records, 1636-1776)

http://www.hale-collection.com/index.html

Connecticut Historical Society, Museum and Library

http://freepages.genealogy.

rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/ct/

clinton_index.htm Clinton

http://freepages.genealogy.

rootsweb.com/~nanc/ North Stonington

http://freepages.genealogy.

rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/ct/

killing_deaths_1867-1876.htm

http://64.233.161.104/search?

q=cache:vFjBUk2tr3MJ:

freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.
com/~jdevlin/ct/clinton_deaths_1877-1886.htm+%22hannah+Davis%22+killingworth&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

http://awt.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-

bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=sebrah&

id=I00703&ti=5538 A lot of CT families

Illinois

http://www.cookcountygenealogy.com/ (Cook County Clerk's office, there is a charge for the records)

http://networkedblogs.com/IoEWB

Ancestry.com site: Cook County, Illinois, Marriage and Death Indexes, 1833-1889

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=2433&enc=1

Ancestry.com site: Cook County, Illinois Death Index, 1908-1988

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1501

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/13cae8ad1ffa0c59 (The Ancestry Insider, Feb. 2013) Regarding Cook Co. records on FamilySearch.org.)

MICHIGAN

http://www.deathindexes.com/michigan/

New York

NEW YORK

Super site if you have Troy, NY families: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nytigs/ProjectsPage.htm

NORTHERN NEW YORK HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS
http://news.nnyln.net/index.html

New York State Census for 1855
http://www.unyg.com/blog/index.php/2013/02/your-favorite-new-york-state-census-is-now-online-1855-nys-census/

Albany Mill Towns
http://www.albanyhilltowns.com/mediawiki/

Fulton Post Cards, New York
http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html

New York Family History (NYGB)
http://www.newyorkfamilyhistory.org/

NORTHERN NEW YORK HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS
http://news.nnyln.net/index.html

New York Gravestones
http://www.newyorkgravestones.org/

Albany County Records
http://www.albanycounty.com/achor/

Albany RDC Records
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/albany/

Early New Netherlands
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rclarke/

People of Colonial Albany

http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/

Ellis Island

NY GenWeb
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nygenweb/county.htm

Olive Tree Genealogy NY
http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/

Northern NY Genealogy
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hubbard/NNY_index/surnames.html

Ray's Place
http://history.rays-place.com/

http://www.rootsweb.com/~

nygreen2/ Greene

http://72.14.207.104/search?q=

cache:9Y8TNY7BwssJ:www.

kindredtrails.com/NY_Clinton.
html+clinton+county+new+york&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 Clinton

http://www.dcnyhistory.org/

searchengines.html Delaware

http://freepages.genealogy.

rootsweb.com/~clifflamere/ Albany & Eastern New York

http://hometown.aol.com/

jma8763/myhomepage/business.

html Genesee & other

http://news.nnyln.net/index.

html Northern NY newspapers

http://216.239.51.104/search?

q=cache:oJ6ujaDj0hEJ:www.

newyorkfamilyhistory.org/
modules.php%3Fname%3DContent%26pa%3Dshowpage%26pid%3D12+%22new+york+genealogical+and+biographical+record%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 NYB&BR Society

Wisconsin: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/vitalrecords/

http://www.detroitpubliclibrary.org/wayne-county-death-record-index

The American Civil War Homepage

Bureau of Land Managment: General Land Office Records: the offical federal land records site

Chronicling America

Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/

Cyndi's List

Daughters of the American Revolution

Find a Grave

GeneaBios : biographies for genealogy

Genealogy Today

http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/vitalrecords/

Internet Archive

Library of Congress
Flickr photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/

LDS Family Search Data

National Archives - NARA http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/

RootsWeb

CANADA

http://simmons.b2b2c.ca/

Library and Archives Canada www.collectionscanada.gc.ca

Library and Archives Canada

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/whats-new/013-571-e.html

Montreal Archives (11/2012)

http://www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/archives/500ans/portail_archives_en/accueil.html

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~qceastwn/archives.html **The best site for the Eastern Townships

Men of Today in the Eastern Townships
http://www.scribd.com/doc/120462232/Men-of-today-in-the-Eastern-Townships-1917

History of Compton County, Eastern Townships
http://www.scribd.com/doc/126649549/History-of-Compton-00-Chanu-of-t

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~qceastwn/

http://missisquoigenealogy.blogspot.com/

http://www.griffincunningham.net/davis/misscountymain2.htm
Quebec Family History Society http://www.qfhs.ca/cpage.php?pt=53

Some Cemetery Locations Around Missisquoi Bay http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~qceastwn/archives/CemeteryLocations.html

Brief Account of the Fenian Raids 1877
http://www.scribd.com/doc/126205199/Brief-Account-of-the-Fenian-Raids-1877

http://www.automatedgenealogy.com/ Canadian free census for 1851, 1901, 1906, 1911

A One-Step Portal for On-Line Genealogy by Stephen P. Morse http://stevemorse.org/

FUN and APPS

What Was There   http://www.whatwasthere.com/
World Names Place   http://worldnames.publicprofiler.org/
Toggl https://www.toggl.com/  (simple time tracking) Free tool
Picnik http://www.picknic.com/ (photo application, free)
TinyURL http://tinyurl.com/ (turn long website addresses into tiny urls)
OpenOffice http://www.openoffice.com/ (free open source office software)
Evernote http://www.jgen.ws/jlog/evernote-2-2-1-386-0/

http://www.ancestry.com/

search/rectype/recent.aspx Ancestry Recent Databases

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/

Main_Page Dictionary

http://userdb.rootsweb.com/

obituaries/ RootsWeb Obituaries

http://www.genealinks.com/

census.htm Census Tools

http://www.biblerecords.com/ Bible Records

http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-

bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=

rkinney14&id=I53 Scramlin

http://data4.

collectionscanada.ca/netacgi/

nph-brs?s2=schramling&s3=&s4=&
s5=&s1=&s8=&Sect4=AND&l=20&Sect1=IMAGE&Sect2=THESOFF&Sect5=CEN1PEN&Sect6=HITOFF&d=CEN1&p=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.collectionscanada.ca%2Farchivianet%2F02010803_e.html&r=0&f=S 1871 census, Schramling

http://freepages.genealogy.

rootsweb.com/~taughannock/

jaquay/holdjaqy.htm Jaquays

http://freepages.genealogy.

rootsweb.com/~

phillipsluscombe/GedHTree/
ghtout/ipj.html Jaquays

http://www.geocities.com/

ancestorsofjulee/index.html Jaquays

http://64.233.187.104/search?

q=cache:xukNU9eBvyoJ:www.

footefamily.org/ancestor.htm+%
22john+graves%22+%22elizabeth+foote%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 Foote Family

http://64.233.179.104/search?

q=cache:sL1AG9LmZTQJ:www.

threerivershms.com/Ehlebook.
htm+gardinier+%22john+ehle%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 Ehle Three Rivers

http://freepages.genealogy.

rootsweb.com/~nelliswebsite/ Nellis Site

http://lrcressy.com/family/

fam-tree/0169.html The Cressey Family

http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-

bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=

dgjarvis&id=I2071 Dave Jarvis

http://freepages.genealogy.

rootsweb.com/~waughp/mine/

surname_index.htm Pam Waugh's

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.

com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=

leannewie&id=I00001 Leanne Wiese

http://www.rays-place.com/

http://64.233.179.104/search?

q=cache:UVqvkZjezm4J:www.

davidkfaux.org/
DescendantsofJohannesJungInt.htm+%22george+schremling%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=5&ie=UTF-8 Johannes Young

http://72.14.207.104/search?q=

cache:KFWhQDN9FCUJ:freepages.

genealogy.rootsweb.com/~
wcarr1/joseph_stannard.htm+%22john+stannard%22+%22margaret+miller%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 Stannard

http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-

bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=

rkinney14&id=I87 Link

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.

com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=

cshepe33&id=I1729 Westovers

http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-

bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=

nedleavitt&id=I2221 Sanger

http://64.233.161.104/search?

q=cache:xkR0CvC6eWcJ:

homepages.rootsweb.com/~
legends/jenkins2.html+%22Pigeon+Hill%22+quebec+cemetery&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 Jenkins

http://www.prenticenet.com/

roots/prentice/cem_ma.htm Prentice