How to use the Nutfield Genealogy Blog to research your ancestors

The Morrison House Museum, Londonderry Historical Society
Londonderry, New Hampshire

Many readers are not sure how to use my blog to help with researching their Nutfield (Londonderry, Derry, Derryfield (Manchester) or Windham), New Hampshire ancestors.  I also have a large list of over 300 of my own ancestor sketches on the blog, covering settlers and colonists from Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and Connecticut.  Here are a few pointers for searching and using the nearly ten years worth of blog posts (that is nearly 3,000 blog posts!).

First, look up at the top of the blog page (not on a mobile device - if you are on a mobile device scroll to the bottom and switch to "web view") and see the search bar in the top left corner?  You can enter any surname, topic, geographic area (town, state, etc), and the results will be any blog post that mentions that word or phrase.  If you are searching for a particular Scots Irish early settler, or any other New England family, try that name and see what pops up.

Next, (also, not on a mobile device) look under the image at the top of the page and you will find clickable tabs that will take you to permanent pages. Here are explanations:

      1.       There is a link to the website for the Nutfield 300th anniversary  

       2.       A list of all the surnames in my family tree for nine generations (do we have a cousin connection?). This is where you will find a list of over 300 names, and most are clickable to find their surname sketch full of information about the first few generations and a lineage down to my grandparents. 

      3.       A chart of all the known descendants of Thomas Wilkinson (about 1690 – about 1739) my 6^th great grandfather from Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

     4.       Chart of all the known descendants of Samuel Wilkinson (about 1722 – 1795) a possible son or cousin of Thomas Wilkinson. Samuel lived in Deerfield or Epping, New Hampshire and had three children named in a will.

     5.       Nutfield “Frequently Asked Questions”.  These are questions and answers for Nutfield genealogy research. This page is very useful for genealogy research on Londonderry settlers.  I tell most people to start on this page when researching their family tree!  This includes a link to the first sixteen families to settle in Londonderry in 1719 with Rev. James MacGregor.  There are links to sixteen blog posts with detailed genealogy sketches and sources for each family. 

      

      6.  Do you have Mayflower ancestors? Are you interested in the commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower?  Check out the tab for "Mayflower 400th" at the top of the page. You will find links to over 180 blog posts with Mayflower themes, including a schedule of events for 2021 commemorating the 400th anniversary of the First Thanksgiving.  

 

On the webpage, in the right hand column near the top is contact information.  My email address is vrojomit@gmail.com   Please check the tab “Nutfield FAQ’s” before emailing me.  Your answer just might be right there in the FAQ's. 

Next on the right hand column is a blog archive where you can see all the blog posts for the month, and also click on past months and years to look up past articles.  

Also in the right hand column is a list of “labels” or keywords for blog posts. For every blog post I label all the surnames, geographic locations, themes, and topics (such as Quakers, poetry, census, DNA, etc).  If you peruse this list and click on a keyword, it will sort out all the blog posts labeled with that word.  This is not as complete as using the search bar mentioned above, but it can be useful for “picking your brain” as you browse the list of surnames and towns and topics in the list.

If you scroll way down to the bottom of the right hand column (way, way, way down!) there is a handy list of Nutfield links to other websites about Nutfield, and the towns that broke off from Nutfield.  Some are websites for newspapers, others are blogs, museums, and other handy websites for researchers.

All of my suggestions above are also applicable to most other blogs by other bloggers. Try out these suggestions at other genealogy blogs to maximize your research time.

NOTE:  If you are using a mobile device such as a phone or tablet, you may not be able to see the right hand column I described above.  You also may not be able to see the search bar.  On my iPhone the list of pages (the clickable links under the home page image described in the third paragraph) is presented as a gray bar under the image with a down arrow.  If you click the down arrow, there is a pop up window with the links available to scroll through.  This gets you access to the six permanent pages of information. 

Good luck, and let me know if you still have questions by leaving a comment or sending me an email!

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To Cite/Link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "How to use the Nutfield Genealogy Blog to research your ancestors", Nutfield Genealogy, posted March 13, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/03/how-to-use-nutfield-genealogy-blog-to.html: accessed [access date]).