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Seek and ye shall find….the missing children of Benjamin and Cynthia (Day)...
My great, great grandmother, Lavina (Bursley) Stanwood, was the sixth child born to Benajamin and Cynthia (Day) Bursley. Pictured with her above are her living siblings, beginning with John Morris...
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Nathaniel Lord, the 3rd great grandson of Robert Day
On 27 November 1742, twenty-eight year old Elizabeth Day (daughter of Thomas Day and the great grand daughter of Robert Day of Ipswich) published intentions of marriage to Nathaniel Lord. The two...
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Harriet Luzetta Day Arithmetic Book
Harriet Luzetta Day was the sister of my third great grandmother, Cynthia Sears Day. She was born about 1812 in Industry, Somerset County, Maine, and became a teacher, probably giving up her...
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I toppled my self-created brick wall!
Cynthia (Day) Bursley death certificate Death certificates are great sources of info – but the one above was frustrating to me. I wanted to see the original death register from which the data had been...
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Alson L. Day’s Civil War Letters Home
The American Civil War, or War of the Rebellion, was a long, bloody war. Certainly many deaths were the result of combat, but just as significant is the numbers of soldiers who died due to disease....
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A tribute to Jonathan Day of Starks, Maine
Jonathan Day. Photo courtesy of Margaret Bienart. Jonathan Day was born 3 September 1820 to John and Elizabeth (Skillings) Day. He was beloved by his family. Lucy Hutchins, the granddaughter of...
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Petition for incorporation of Milo, Maine provides signature of Aaron Day
A visit to the Maine State Archives last week provided the following priceless document: Signatures of those petitioning for the incorporation of Milo, Maine To the honorable Senate and House of...
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The homestead of John Day in Manchester, Maine
For the genealogist, little can compare to finding the homestead of your ancestor. And with the help of Dale Potter-Clark of the Readfield Historical Society in Maine that is exactly what we did! This...
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Cynthia Spears Day, daughter of Aaron Day and Martha Tibbetts
Five years ago I took a DNA test with one goal in mind: to solve the mystery of Cynthia (Day) Bursley’s parentage. If you’ve been following this blog, you know that the last couple of years I’ve been...
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Will the real wife of Aaron Day place step forward???
Call the genealogy police! An impostor has posed for the wife of my 4th great grandfather, Aaron Day! Who the heck is Marion Harris? How on earth did she make it into SO MANY family trees??? 46...
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Spinsters and single-women in the 1700s and beyond
Sarah. Abigail. “Aunt Nabby.” Lucy. Mary. Hannah. Elizabeth. These are the names of just a few of the Day family women residing as “single women” in Ipswich, Massachusetts in the 18th and early...
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Jeremiah Day’s “Highboy Chest of Drawers”
Helen (Freeman) Grant wrote to her cousin, Elsie (Day) Hansen about Jeremiah Day’s Highboy Chest of Drawers Jeremiah Day. Yeoman. And, apparently, cabinetmaker. Featured on the Yale University web...
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Bradstreets and Days: From Massachusetts to Minnesota, descendants wed
Descendants of Ipswich settlers Humphrey Bradstreet and Robert Day met in Minnesota and married in 1781 Lavina S. Bursley’s fifth great grandfather, Robert Day, was made a freeman in Ipswich in 1641....
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Untangling the John Days of Ipswich, Massachusetts
John Day, my 5th great grandfather, was baptized in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts on 24 February 1750/1. In earlier documents John was referred to as John Day Jr., so obviously other men of the...
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The mad and successful hatters in my family tree
Beaver hats Apparently, making hats could be a lucrative business in the 19th century. Several of the brothers of Aaron Day, my fourth great grandfather, had taken up the trade, which they likely...
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Awesome autosomal DNA solves the mystery of Martha’s maiden name!
Autosomal DNA. One of the most powerful tools in the genealogist’s toolbox! No, it will never, ever replace the elbow grease required in completing an accurate family tree (nor would I want it to – it...
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Evidence-based Reasoning Reveals the Parents of Cynthia (Day) Bursley
As Elizabeth Shown Mills states, often we will never find the “smoking gun” – that single document which states the parentage of an individual. This is certainly the case with Cynthia (Day) Bursley,...
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The hunt for Days, and the importance of original records
I’m a homebody who prefers the company of my dogs and computer to travel. However, there is one thing that is sure to motivate me to hop on a plane, and that’s GENEALOGY! A week ago Thursday I flew to...
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Find-A-Grave, more than just graves
The new copy of my great-great grandparents’ gravestone, taken by a kind Find-A-Grave volunteer. Good stuff starts with Find-A-Grave. Okay, certainly not all good stuff, but lately it seems like LOTS...
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Mystery people in Grandma Lavina’s photos
Minneapolis, Minnesota, about 1871 The photograph above was passed down to my in my great-great grandmother’s photo album. Lavina (Bursley) Stanwood arranged the pictures with her children on the...
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