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Thomasine Younger was born in 1753 to William Younger and Lucy Foster. Her brothers grew up to be seamen, which is not surprising. Her younger brother, Levi, is my 5x great grandfather. Gloucester was a major fishing seaport in New England, famous for the Gorton’s frozen fish packing plant and the statue of the fisherman’s memorial. The…

On reflection, I was a little harsh in my comments yesterday. I first began to look for my grandmother's birth certificate in the 1960s when I was in my salad days and green in judgement. I had no reason to doubt what my family told me about her date and place of birth. But even if I did doubt it, where should I look instead? There were dozens of people with the same name registered in the 5 years surrounding her suggested birth date. The crucial piece of evidence was the 1891 census and…

I have decided to blog my way through a family history project. The idea is to add at least one generation to each of my family lines. In some cases, this should be relatively straight forward since there are some female lines that I haven't yet looked into. In other cases, I don't expect any progress - for example, my gg grandfather born in Newry in 1828 and his putative father. I also expect no progress with my illegitimate gg grandmother. Apart from the above Irish line, all my ancestral…

During the Civil War, my 2x great…

Family Tree Connection has added the following genealogy items to its database:

New Hampshire State Prison 1868 Report - Annual Report of the Warden and Inspectors of the New Hampshire State Prison, Accompanied by the Reports of the Chaplain and Physician, Together with Other Documents Relating to the Affairs of the Prison, June Session, 1868. Includes a Register of Convicts in Prison, May 1,…

In a recent post on Inside Google Books, Google announced completion of their digitization

project with the University of Texas Libraries and the inclusion of over

500,000 unique Latin American volumes…