Category Archives: Adams

The Barbour Collection is an excellent source of information on birth, marriages, and deaths in the Colonial era. The index includes vital records for most Connecticut towns up until 1850. […]

Family relationships are complicated! Abner and his wife were second cousins, once removed. Mary’s first husband was her second cousin, once removed. That means Mary’s two husbands were second cousins. […]

Abner and Desire had nine known children. It was interesting to find that four of these adults never married. One religious sect that practiced celibacy was the Shakers. Their first […]

In 1842, Louisa married a man named David Sweet. Who was he? Rumor has it he came from Boston, Massachusetts, and moved to Minnesota after deserting Louisa and their child. […]

Something happened to Esther’s family between 1846 and 1850. She was sent to live with Robert Place’s family. Her sister was sent to live with William French’s family. Did her […]

I believe Henry L Smith and Martin Monroe Smith were related because both families were living in Wyoming County, New York, USA. It is just a matter of connecting Henry […]

Luna’s mother was 26 years old when she died. She probably died from complications of childbirth. Her father’s first wife also died in childbirth. Could this be the reason Abner […]

In 1771, Ahaziah’s daughter, Deborah, married a man named Ephraim Adams. Who was he? There were two men with this name living in Windham County, Connecticut at that time. Ahaziah […]

Zaidee’s first husband, Leland Pease Thayer, died in 1918 in Syracuse, New York. This was the year of World War I and the Great Influenza Epidemic. He was probably stationed […]

Internet Archive, aka archive.org, has a large collection of digitized material that is free to view online. Without this website, I would never have found Albigence and his family. Albigence […]