If you’re stuck in your research, you might want to consider writing a query. For those who might not know, a query is a request for information about an ancestor. Queries can be found on websites, blogs, journals, social media pages, genealogical newsletters, conference programs or query boards, lineage society publications, and other genealogically related communications.
To the editor:
In 1955 at my home in Nashua, New Hampshire, Mom and Dad finally purchased a TV set. As I recall, it was a Stromberg Carlson and what a beauty. I was 12.
To the editor:
Since the pandemic, the lack of affordable and accessible child care has been a barrier for parents of young children to work full time.
To the editor:
345 miles to Ft. Kent and no Interstate 95 from Lewiston. Back in the 50s, and no GPS. My grandparents, Honore and Sophie Theriault Voisine, lived on N. Perley Brook Road.
To the editor:
I am a lifetime resident of Maine. I have always been proud of my state. Maine was a beautiful state without a lot of crime, but I am so disappointed to admit that I live in Maine now.
Notre belle langue française s’en va vite en p’tit pepére dans la Vallée Saint-Jean. Ont est rendu quissement au boute. Comme disent les anglais, we could be close to the 11th hour.
You most likely have been told that using wildcards can be helpful in genealogical searching. But, do you know what they are and how they work? Did anyone ever explain this to you? Do you wonder if they’d help you? So, let me try to answer these questions for you.
In addition to the “Starch King of Aroostook County,” Thomas Phair, there were two additional family members who contributed significantly to the history of this community.
