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Category: Day
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Thank you, Ancestry.com, for a Day family reunion
Ancestry.com – great for finding our ancestors, and spectacular for making cousin connections! On February 2, 2014, I sent a message through Ancestry.com to Sherece Lamke, whose family tree contained information on Aaron Day and his wife, Martha. What ensued after that initial contact was a flurry of emails back and forth, as we joyously…
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The hunt for Days, and the importance of original records
I’m a homebody who prefers the company of my dogs and computer to travel. However, there is one thing that is sure to motivate me to hop on a plane, and that’s GENEALOGY! A week ago Thursday I flew to Maine to do some research on my Day family, and then met up with my…
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Find-A-Grave, more than just graves
Good stuff starts with Find-A-Grave. Okay, certainly not all good stuff, but lately it seems like LOTS of good stuff has made it’s way to me, complements of the wonderful people who post on Find-A-Grave. Take, for example, the photo shown above, which awaited me in my email upon arising this morning. Find-A-Grave volunteer…
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Mystery people in Grandma Lavina’s photos
The photograph above was passed down to my in my great-great grandmother’s photo album. Lavina (Bursley) Stanwood arranged the pictures with her children on the beginning pages, and this unknown woman, appeared on page 26. I suspect it was a photo of her cousin, Isabel (Day) Libby, who lived in Minneapolis during that time. The…
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Milo, Maine: First members of the Free Will Baptist Society
From The History of Milo, Vol. II, by Lloyd Treworgy: “In 1827, nevertheless, only a step in time beyond the pioneers’ life-and-death struggle for subsistence in a hostile environment – and only four years after its organization as a town- Milo’s voters authorized the expenditure of $300, a large sum to them then, ‘To support…
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Proving the parentage of Cynthia (Day) Bursley
This past Saturday I was inducted into the Cooch’s Bridge Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. It was overwhelmingly wonderful and quite surreal, and the culmination of nearly thirty years of research into my Bursley family. It would never have been possible without the collaboration with my third and…
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