The last two weeks have been hard since my old computer died
a slow death with a deteriorating hard drive.
Fortunately all the data was recoverable, and I didn’t need to use my
cloud storage or my external hard drive storage. It took days to move the data (literally)
since we have many gigs of photos and documents. It took a professional to do all the fine tuning,
which is fine by me since I wanted it done fast and “right the first time”.
Thank goodness for pre-posting two weeks of blog posts ahead
of time!
Several emails and messages kept me busy on my laptop while
all this was happening. First, Jeanie at
The Family Connection blog http://www.jeaniesgenealogy.com/
wrote to me about my blog post “John Locke ~ He Cut Off an Indian’s Nose with
his Scythe” at this link: http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/07/john-locke-he-cut-off-indians-nose-with.html
She questioned my statement that John Locke was not married
to Elizabeth Berry. She was correct, and
I was wrong in my post. John Locke
definitely did marry Elizabeth Berry, daughter of William and Jane Berry, about
1652. I was thinking of statements seen
all over the internet that his wife was Elizabeth BOLLES or BOWLES. See, I almost perpetuated that myth with my
boo boo. Sorry, Jeanie, but thanks for
making the comment so I could correct the blog post!
I had my guest blogger Bette Pye Wing write up a second blog
post about Fort Banks, Winthrop, Massachusetts at this link: http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/07/fort-banks-winthrop-massachusetts.html
. She will be creating her own genealogy
blog soon, and it will be titled “The Pye Plate” (cute name ‘eh?) I’ve never met Bette, but she is a cousin to
a very good friend. Bette’s research on
her lineage to the Mayflower passenger Stephen Hopkins helped me to complete an
application for membership for my friend’s Mom just two year before she passed
away. She was thrilled to become a
member, even though she was only a member for a very short time. Now her children and grandchildren and
descendants will be able to apply for member in the Society of Mayflower
Descendants, all due to Bette’s hard work.
I also heard from Paul A. Clark, who is researching Esther
Wines, wife of Nicholas Hodson, married about 1639. He is looking for a connection to the Wincoll
family and is also looking for a will written by a cousin with the fantastic
name of “Faintnot Wines” from Charlestown, Massachusetts. This will mentions the cousin connections.
Has anyone out there done any research on the WINCOLL or WINES families?
A mysterious message by “ Fr. Garcelon” left me a link to a
GARCELON family tree on an excel spreadsheet.
Thanks, for the link and I have checked out the large pedigree chart! I know I haven’t blogged about this family,
but I did leave a message on a bulletin board a few years ago when I was
looking for information on a Peter James Garcelon who married my third cousin
Anna M. Wilkinson on 14 August 1875 in La Grange, Maine. The
pedigree chart was very helpful.
I am finding Connecticut research maddening. There are two Charlotte Mathers (a daughter in law and her mother in law) who
appear to have flown under the radar and their records do not appear in any of
the usual places for vital records. I’ve
never done any research in Connecticut before.
I hope I don’t have to make a trip down there! Help! Any research tips or RAOGK would be
appreciated now. Maybe now that I have my computer I can write
to a dozen possible towns clerks for information!
Surprise, surprise! A
very odd bunch of websites related to metal detecting have been referring
readers to my blog. I clicked on one of
the links that showed up on my statistics page, and there was a running thread
on a forum for metal detectors. It seems
that someone dug up a metal medallion related to an anniversary for the city of
Springfield, Massachusetts. On the front
of this medallion was an image of Samuel Chapin, one of the city founders. There is a large statue of Chapin in
Springfield, and I blogged about it during the last NERGC conference in
Springfield (see this link: http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/04/mini-chapin-reunion.html) My blog post and the accompanying photograph
helped the hobbyists identify the medallion and the image of my 10 x Great
Grandfather, Deacon Samuel Chapin. You
never know, do you, where all this blogging will lead?
For the truly curious:
The link to the metal detecting thread:
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Copyright 2012, Heather Wilkinson Rojo and Bette Pye Wing
