GraveObsessions
Digging up my roots!
Stories from an addicted genealogist
From Colonial New England to Minnesota, Norway to the United States..
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Ernest Loren Simpson
Ernest Loren Simpson – my grandmother’s father and my namesake (Well, his middle name at least!)
Susan Belle Stanwood
Susan (Stanwood) Clark Simpson was my grandmother’s mother, and the person whose roots I’ve spent my life searching!
Julia Christine Veland
Julia (Veland) Uphouse provides me with opportunities to research my Norwegian heritage! Her mother, Lisbet (Gravdahl),
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Evernote and everyday genealogy
I hate paper. Paper requires time to organize. Drawers to hold it. Folders to straighten it. Paper is messy. Paper cannot be stored in the “cloud.” Paper is inefficient. I have a LOT of paper! Having been active in researching my family history over the last twenty years, I’ve amassed a wealth of paper. In…
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Watch out Salt Lake City – Here I come!
The Southern California Genealogical Society holds their annual Jamboree each June, and is the highlight of my year. The event brings the best of the best to Southern California, and each year I expand my knowledge by listening to superb lecturers who are experts in their specialties. This past year I attended two sessions by…
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Surnames
I admit it. I have ancestor bias. Having spent an inordinately disproportionate time on my Stanwood, Bradstreet, Bursley and Day families, all early immigrants to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, I’ve most recently been tracking down the forebears of my Veland and Gravdahl Norwegian ancestors. Other surnames and collateral lines I’m researching (including the regions in…
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I’m hooooooooome – here in Bar Harbor!
My grandmother died in 2004, and to honor her and work on her family history, my mother and I decided to take a trip to Maine. With our hotel in Bangor, we decided to take a day trip to Bar Harbor, where our ancestor Job Stanwood was an early settler. As we approached Bar Harbor…
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A morning with the Bradstreets
Yesterday was quite an adventure! We took the subway to Braintree, MA, only to find that the trains to Plymouth had been canceled about 3 month ago. So, we decided to rent a car (had planned to do so that evening anyway) and drove to Plymouth. Had hoped to see the home of Jabez Howland,…
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Today’s Adventure – NEHGS
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXfr-81FtGc&hl=en&fs=1] The above video only hints at the massive crowds that flooded Boston in preparation for the Bruin’s parade today. Why did they have to choose THIS month to take back the Stanley cup?? We left our hotel at 8:30 a.m., giving us plenty of time to get to New England Historic and Genealogical…
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Gloucester, Ancient Seaport and Stanwood Home!
Gloucester, Massachusetts is a charming seaport village, and was the home to my oldest colonial ancestors, including Philip Stainwood (selectman of the town and resident as early as 1654), and Rev. Benjamin Bradstreet, who was the first pastor of the Third Parish Church, now known as Annisquam Village Church.
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New England 2011! Here we are!
After tons of planning and preparing for visits to multiple libraries and other repositories of ancient genealogical (and other!) records, WE’RE HERE IN NEW ENGLAND!!! 🙂 I absolutely LOVE the East coast, and would love to spend time here even if it wasn’t the region that my colonial ancestors lived! Our trip has been rather…
Lauren Rogers
Addicted Genealogist
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