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A Family Harvest: May 2008
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Genealogy research, family stories and other gleanings. Monday, 26 May 2008. Memorial Day (in the United States) is a time to celebrate the lives of those who have fallen in the service of their country. Formerly known as Decoration Day, it was instituted as a Federal Holiday following the American Civil War. Most Americans think of it as the kick-off for Summer and a time for partying, but my memories of this holiday are different than most. According to the account of Joshua Simonds, who was in charge ...
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A Family Harvest: August 2007
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Genealogy research, family stories and other gleanings. Friday, 24 August 2007. It is almost ten years ago since I first made contact with my birth mother, Margaret Helena Sutherland. Today marks the 8th year since she passed from my life. After learning the first tiny tidbits of information about Margaret and her family, I set about trying to trace her ancestry. Emelie Sophie LeBlanc was the 11th child of Charles B. and Sophie (LeBlanc) LeBlanc. (Although her mother shared the same surname with ...Event...
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A Family Harvest: April 2007
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Genealogy research, family stories and other gleanings. Saturday, 28 April 2007. New Family Harvest Genealogy Website. After four long years, I have finally completed a revision of my Family Harvest Genealogy website and it's now online! New on the Family Harvest Genealogy. Website are updated databases, the previous ones had been taken offline to protect the privacy of those still living. For this revision, I have taken great care to ensure that no living persons are identified in the databases. The Ado...
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A Family Harvest: Finding Grandma Norris
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Genealogy research, family stories and other gleanings. Thursday, 10 June 2010. It has been a long time since I've posted anything to this blog, time being so hard to find these days. However, I have not been completely idle with the research and have made a couple of breakthroughs which have been nagging me for years. The first breakthrough was finding "Grandma Norris". When I learned of the pilot search at FamilySearch.org. Butthe sad news is that there is no marker on the gravesite. A call was made to...
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A Family Harvest: June 2007
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Genealogy research, family stories and other gleanings. Saturday, 9 June 2007. Ruth Ernestine Haviland would have been one hundred years old today. She was a woman of many facets.bookkeeper, WAC, homemaker, poet. To me, she was "Mom.". After World War II that Ruth met a young, handsome sailor, Frank Donovan. Because of their age difference (10 years), Ruth delayed saying "yes" to Frank's proposal of marriage, but he was persistent and they were married in 1950. Posted by Cathy Amatnieks. Italy, in 1910 a...
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A Family Harvest: Margaret Helena Sutherland
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Genealogy research, family stories and other gleanings. Friday, 24 August 2007. It is almost ten years ago since I first made contact with my birth mother, Margaret Helena Sutherland. Today marks the 8th year since she passed from my life. After learning the first tiny tidbits of information about Margaret and her family, I set about trying to trace her ancestry. Emelie Sophie LeBlanc was the 11th child of Charles B. and Sophie (LeBlanc) LeBlanc. (Although her mother shared the same surname with ...Event...
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A Family Harvest: April 2008
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Genealogy research, family stories and other gleanings. Sunday, 20 April 2008. Home From The Forest. During the long Winter of 2007/8, I have been occupied with the job of shoveling snow, so have not had the time (or energy! To write anything for this blog. However, my quest for family did not get shoveled aside like the flakes which continually fell from the skies.I found three "new" cousins! For fun, I decided to try to trace Gordon's lineage. Ironically, during one of my regular searches for ancestors...
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A Family Harvest: Who Was George G. S. Norris?
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Genealogy research, family stories and other gleanings. Thursday, 10 June 2010. Who Was George G. S. Norris? One of the more intriguing people in my paternal lineage is my great-great-grandfather, George G. S. Norris. Just who was he? Who were his parents? How does he relate to the Norris families of New England? What did he do for a living? How many children did he have? Where is he buried? I knew that George G. S. had married Julia Ann Kennedy in Chelsea, MA, on 29 Nov 1860. Website to search for anyth...
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A Family Harvest: March 2007
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Genealogy research, family stories and other gleanings. Saturday, 24 March 2007. When I began the research into my birth ancestry, I had no idea just how intertwined the branches of the tree would become! Family that I am descended.more than once! My great-grandfather was Charles B. LeBlanc ( Belone, Belone, Belone, Claude, Rene, Jacques, Daniel. Is descended from a different son of Daniel and Francoise than Charles. Appearing in the lineage with both of these LeBlanc lines are Chiasson, Hebert, Arse...
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A Family Harvest: November 2007
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Genealogy research, family stories and other gleanings. Saturday, 3 November 2007. It occurred to me while sourcing the census for my mother and her family that I could not find them listed on the 1920 U.S. Federal Census! Knowing that she was age 12, lived in Belmont, Massachusetts, with her mother, 3 sisters and one brother and that the address at the time was 311 Beech Street, I could not fathom why I could not locate the family! I needed to unravel this mystery. I thought I was mistaken, so went thro...