One experience I had in New York City while on a New England Historical and Genealogical Society sponsored week last May was fascinating and productive but kind of macabre. Consulting with one of the Society professional genealogists, I was expressing my frustration with my inability to document my great great-grandmother’s death. I had tracked her, […]
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Recently I had a genie serendipity experience that was fun, productive and rewarding. Because I didn’t have faith in the published research I had found on my New Amsterdam families, I hadn’t pursued any of the families. What I had was spotty and incomplete. A trip to New York City in May with the New […]
An interesting ancestor was Timothy Townsend. He died 11 March 1832 at the advanced age of 94 in Canaan, Columbia County, New York. Not only was he one of the first settlers of Canaan, he was among the original founders of the town of Champion, Jefferson County New York as well (settled 1798). He returned […]
