The George Flint House in North Reading, Mass. This is the 12th post I have written about a Revolutionary War veteran ancestor.  George Fl...

 This is Patriot #3 in this series of blog posts about my ancestors in the Revolutionary War. My 5th great grandfather Jonathan Flint was bo...

This tombstone was photographed at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Reading, Massachusetts ERECTED IN Memory of Mrs. MARIAH E. PARKE...

Examination of a Witch T.H. Matteson, 1853 HART / HARTT / HARTE There was a Samuel Hart living in Lynn, Massachusetts at the same...

HUTCHINSON There were several HUTCHINSON families in early Massachusetts.  William Hutchinson (1586 – 1641) was the husband of Anne ...

Map of Salem Village from A Storm of Witchcraft , page 121 note all the PUTNAM families on this map PUTNAM In Salem Possessed, ...

The Pope Chest, dated 1679 At the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts POPE The English origins of Joseph Pope, my 8 th ...

This tombstone was photographed at the Monumental Cemetery in Peabody, Massachusetts LUTHER S. MUNROE DIED Dec. 21, 1851 Age...

Back when I was a teen aged kid, in the 1970's, before computers and the internet, I started working on my family history.   As a te...

This is a shot in the dark, but last September Diane Boumenot posted her top ten genealogy research problems HERE and she has already s...

COLLSTON Adam Collston’s origins are unknown.  He settled in Reading, Massachusetts before 1668, and was the schoolmaster from 1679 to...

Not much is known about William Dounton.  We don’t know his English origins, nor his birth date.  He was made a freeman on 29 April 16...

The best thing about having a genealogy blog is the collaboration of ideas with readers, other bloggers and genealogists.  Usually the col...