Through the years of research into my family’s history, there are certain individuals who stand out from the rest; sometimes due to a particularly interesting life story, or simply because a greater amount of records are to be found for them, giving a fuller picture of their life. For both reasons, one such person has …
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Friend of Friends Friday – Will of Samuel Fisher 0
Keeping myself busy today while riding out the blizzard had me browsing through the collections at FamilySearch.org. I found the will of Samuel Fisher, my 5th great grand uncle, who came from Londonderry, Northern Ireland as an early Scotch-Irish settler of Nutfield (now Derry and Londonderry) New Hampshire. He was born on 29 Jul 1722 …
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Black Sheep Sunday – William C. Burnett 0
William Cargill Burnett, (b. 18 Sep 1863-d. bef. 1924), son of my 2nd great grandparents William Burnett and Susan Hill Kent, had arrived in Lowell MA in the 1880′s from his hometown of Upper Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia, Canada. On 13 Dec 1884 he married Margaret M. Murtagh in Lowell with a son, Walter V. Burnett, …
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Sports Center Saturday – Boston Marathon 0
When I was a kid the famed Boston Marathon held a personal touch for me and my family. For several years my 1st cousin (1x removed) Arthur “Frank” Annis ran the marathon, which made Patriot’s Day in Boston a day for the family to gather at my aunt’s house on Newbury Street, where we …
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Boston’s Great Molasses Disaster of 1919 0
Molasses disaster? It doesn’t seem possible that the words “molasses” and “disaster” could coexist in the same sentence! But on January 15, 1919, the city of Boston was rocked by an explosion that would send 2.3 million gallons of thick, sticky molasses coursing through the streets of Boston’s North End in a wave up to …
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Wedding Wednesday – Jean Kidby Murphy 0
We were first cousins but she was much older than me, already a young woman when I was born. I spent a lot of time at her mother’s house (my mother’s oldest sister, Aunt Flossie) when I was growing up. Jean was my idol, from my very earliest memories. She was beautiful, smart and charming. …
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Talented Tuesday – Uncle Faltin’s Violin 0
It’s been very exciting in the course of my family research journey to uncover a few ancestors considered by their contemporaries to be “colorful characters”. Probably the most colorful and intriguing has been my 3rd great-grandfather in my maternal line, Valentine Mink (1778-1832), as vividly described (and undoubtedly written with much embellishment!) in the following …
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Maritime Monday – “Uncle Eddie” Stewart 2
At last I have some time to work with my family research after a few weeks of a very busy schedule! I had kept a little list over the past few weeks with the names of a few family members with mysterious stories attached to them that I wanted to work on as soon as …
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Sentimental Sunday – Edmond et Jeanne 9
This “Sentimental Sunday” post is not of an ancestor but rather a part of my own history, and something that is of great sentimental value to me. It was my first visit to Paris when I first met my future husband. One day during my visit we decided to go to “Les Puces“, a most …
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Sunday’s Obituary – The Untimely Death of Engineer Burnett 2
Again I must thank GeneaBloggers, and not only for the prompts that spur me on with great ideas to keep me writing! I just made a fantastic discovery and all because I had dropped by GeneaBloggers to look through today’s blogging prompts. I read through some great posts written by bloggers in the “Sunday’s Obituary” …
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