GenealogyBlog

This week’s blogging prompt is the State of Missouri. Blog about an ancestor or your families connection to Missouri. If you don’t have any connections to Missouri, find a Missouri resource useful for genealogy research to highlight and write about. This week’s prompt runs from 6/16/2013 – 6/22/2013. If you choose to follow along, I would appreciate a mention to the Hidden Genealogy Nuggets website.

Boy my personal life really kicked me for a loop and I hadn’t finished what I started. I’m trying to get back to it now after a long absence.

I did not have any relatives from Missouri. The State Historical Society of Missouri has an absolutely fabulous online primary documents. Check out some of the documents in the section The American Civil War in Missouri. The Missouri Digital Newspaper Project is another great section to try out.

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A few Missouri Genealogy Links
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• Missouri State Genealogical Association
• Missouri State Library
• The State Historical Society of Missouri
• St. Louis Genealogical Society

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Missouri Newspaper Archives at Genealogy Bank
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The following is a transcription from the Seymour School records for the academic school year 1891-92. Clearly the ages of these individuals are most likely not in a high school level class. Perhaps there was an extra room at the high school which was needed for younger students.

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This week’s blogging prompt is the State of Maine. Blog about an ancestor or your families connection to Maine. If you don’t have any connections to Maine, find a Maine resource useful for genealogy research to highlight and write about. This week’s prompt runs from 6/9/2013 – 6/15/2013. If you choose to follow along, I would appreciate a mention to the Hidden Genealogy Nuggets website.

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Given my early colonial New England roots, I was surprised to find out that I did not have a lot of connections to the state of Maine. My closest connection is a first cousin, twice removed. As it appears to be a common theme lately, he is also a descendant of John Charles Sanders and Mary Clark Tripp.

George Joseph Sanders was born on 03-Nov-1906 in New Britain, Hartford County, Connecticut. He married Ethel H. Pichard on 22-May-1943 in Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut. He died in February 1985. His last known address was in Waldoboro, Lincoln County, Maine

A have a few notes my father had recorded about him including;

• He was a retired toolmaker at Lewis Engineering Co. in Naugatuck, CT
• He was also a licensed amateur radio operator since 1923. His call sign K1GZI
• According to his mothers obituary, George lived in Cheshire, Ct in 1956

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A few Maine Genealogy Links
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• Maine Genealogical Society
• Maine Historical Society
• Maine State Archives
• Main State Library
• Maine US Gen Web

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Maine Newspaper Archives at Genealogy Bank
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The following is a transcription of the school records for the Third Primary School in Seymour, Connecticut for the school year 1891-92.

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