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Follow the Boston Genealogy Examiner on Facebook

Now you can follow the Boston Genealogy Examiner on Facebook, the social networking site. Having a Facebook page for this column allows me to post...
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The Mayflower Passengers: Saints and Strangers

The Mayflower left England in September 1620 with 102 passengers. Of this number, less than half of them were known as Separatists or Saints&mdash...
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Early Boston record books (also known as the Boston Record Commissioner Books) online

Libraries with New England genealogy collections often contain a well-known series of Boston record books published from 1876 to 1909. Over the...
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Portrait of a witch, 1692

Generally, we think of witches as old hags, widows who lived on the outskirts of their community, often bad mannered and physically offensive....
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Maine Genealogy site grows from one man's obsession

Five years ago, Christopher Dunham created the Maine Genealogy site to share some of the genealogy resources he had collected---and he’s been...
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Revolutionaries in your family tree

Alongside the main street in my town are white posts commemorating the march of the Bedford Minutemen on April 19, 1775 as they headed toward...
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1915 Rhode Island census index available

The FamilySearch Record Search pilot site is a testament to volunteers around the world working together to offer free Internet access to vital...
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New England genealogy 101: cemetery inscriptions and photographs online

Where can I find cemetery inscriptions? Down the street from my house, there was an old cemetery that my sister and I visited---when we dared. We...
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Looking for the best genealogy web sites?

Lists are great, especially when they help to narrow down the number of useful and worthwhile web sites for genealogy research. Check out these two...
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Where is Captain John Alden buried?

Sometimes having a distinguished background doesn't count. Consider John Alden (1626-1702), a well-known and wealthy Boston ship captain and son of...
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