The Storm of 1869: Conway, Massachusetts
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 16, "Storms" Disaster struck my great-great-grandparents' town in the fall of 1869, when a storm hit the...
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Ann D. Watson
- Apr 3, 2018
- 10 min
Watson Homestead, Conway, Massachusetts
Summer 1862. The Civil War raged. Lincoln called for more Union army volunteers. Pressure to enlist was tremendous. After meetings were...
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Ann D. Watson
- Mar 11, 2018
- 1 min
Strong Hairstyle, Strong Woman
This week's theme for our "52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks" is Strong Woman. I don't know much about my Scottish great-great-grandmother Helen...
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Ann D. Watson
- Feb 12, 2018
- 2 min
Cassius Clay Auld: Favorite Ancestor Name
52 Ancestors Week 6: My favorite name for an ancestor so far is Cassius Clay Auld. Cassius was born in Pennsylvania on the eve of the...
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Ann D. Watson
- Feb 3, 2018
- 1 min
Is old age an industry? (52 Ancestors, week 5)
I was amused by this 1900 U.S. census record of my 2nd great grandparents Aeneas V. Graham and his wife, Amanda P. Underwood (Graham) in...
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Ann D. Watson
- Jan 29, 2018
- 1 min
Dinner Invite: 52 Ancestors Week 4
I would love to have been sitting at this dinner table with my great grandmother Jeannette "Nettie" Clyde Beveridge (Dingman), and 7 of...
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Ann D. Watson
- Jan 20, 2018
- 1 min
Longevity: 52 Ancestors Week 3
Curious to see if there were any patterns to length of life for my ancestral families, I created a chart. The one who lived the longest...
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Ann D. Watson
- Jan 15, 2018
- 4 min
My great-grandfather's hotel and saloon
Bayside Hotel, Keyport, New Jersey, c. 1900 The photograph pictures my great-grandfather's first hotel in Keyport, New Jersey, the...
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Ann D. Watson
- Jan 8, 2018
- 2 min
Was it the tragic runaway horse death? The penniless mill hand? Or my 90-year-old cousin's famil
How I was hooked by genealogy: Was it Mom telling me about her grandmother dying in a tragic 1906 accident involving an early motorcar...
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Ann D. Watson
- Nov 29, 2017
- 4 min
Wedding Wednesday: a secret wedding
My grandparents, Anne Bauer and Norman McLeod Dingman, married secretly in 1916. Anna Fredericka Bauer and Norman McLeod Dingman Anne,...
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Ann D. Watson
- Nov 27, 2017
- 1 min
Holiday Special: Give the gift of Genealogy
This holiday season, Family Pictures Genealogy is offering holiday gift certificates for genealogy research services at a discounted...
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Ann D. Watson
- Sep 11, 2017
- 1 min
William's Conway: A Story Map
"William's Conway, c. 1890" Ann D. Watson 2017 Watercolor crayon and pencil on paper 5 3/8 x 10 3/8 inches Buildings L to R: Burkeville...
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Ann D. Watson
- Jun 13, 2017
- 3 min
Tombstone Tuesday: A girl's 1961 diary documents gravestone inscriptions
Putney, Vermont, Summer 1961. I'm 9 years old. My cousin Susan is visiting us at our home on River Road. One day, an exploration takes us...
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Ann D. Watson
- May 15, 2017
- 2 min
Mapping Monday: Research trip to North Hero
Here's a little map of a genealogical research trip I made to North Hero, Grand Isle County, Vermont. Creating maps is fun and can help...
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Ann D. Watson
- May 1, 2017
- 1 min
William Watson, woolen mill worker
Today I honor my great-great-grandfather William Watson, who worked in the Burke/Delabarre woolen mill in Conway, Massachusetts, from...
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Ann D. Watson
- Apr 2, 2017
- 3 min
Cumberland Island History and Genealogy
I recently visited Cumberland Island, the largest barrier island off the coast of Georgia. I don't pretend to know very much about this...
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Ann D. Watson
- Mar 2, 2017
- 1 min
Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh, Summer 2017
Really looking forward to Harold Henderson's June 2017 GRIP course on writing proof arguments, "From Confusion to Conclusion." See all...
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Ann D. Watson
- Feb 10, 2017
- 1 min
Genealogy meets hand bookbinding
Being a hand bookbinder as well as a genealogist, I recently delighted in early Grand Isle County, Vermont court docket books. These...
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