With my subscription to Ancestry, I have access to many official documents, like death certificates, that have so much more information than just dates. While researching Burdus Melcher for my last blog post, I decided to fill out his sister Emma’s profile in my records. Her death certificate is available on Ancestry and I found out she died…
Find A Grave is a great resource for genealogists and family historians, but there is nothing like visiting a graveyard in person. I was only able to visit a few cemeteries while on my Maine vacation in September, but wandering around Growstown Cemetery in Brunswick was a highlight of the trip. The cemetery is pretty…
William Seward was born around 1746 in Killingworth, Connecticut to the Rev. William Seward and his wife Concurrence Crane. He was third in a line of William Sewards, though there doesn’t appear to be any records showing a III after his name. They were all descendants of a William Seward who immigrated from England and…
A couple of years ago, I found a photo of a young man in military uniform mixed up with photos from my father’s family from England. Still riding the “high” I got from tracking down where my great-grandmother (on my father’s mother’s side) came from, I decided it belonged to her half-brother Frank Bailey, who…
