My Maine Heritage: A Genealogy Web Site
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My Maine Heritage: A Genealogy Web
Site

This site traces my New England heritage back 400 years through an ever-increasing number of surnames.

WHAT'S NEW?

The June 2023 update adds more than 13,000 new names, bringing the database total up to over 240,000 individuals, and, as always, works to correct earlier information.

This site began as a web design project back in 2000 and has been online with Freepages, sponsored by Rootsweb, since April 2001.

I have recently discovered that Rootsweb will be shutting the Freepages hosting service down in early 2024. Logins will be disabled and the sites will become read only.

For that reason, THE JUNE 2023 UPDATE WILL BE THE LAST ON THIS PLATFORM.

The site had a really good run, and I thank Rootsweb and Ancestry for hosting me for free for more than twenty years. I do hope to find a new platform for the site. If I find one in time and can still update this page, I will link to the new location.

I do keep extending lines, updating information, and correcting errors. Check your favorite lines to see whether changes have been made or information has been updated.

Thank you for visiting over these last twenty-two years! Best of luck with your research.


Surnames
Cole Buck Webster Poor Andrews Melanson

Affiliated lines: Aydelott, Bowden, Burdin, Farnham, Hanson, Holman, Perham, Shurtleff, Spofford, St. Pierre, Tufts, Wentworth, Wing, Wright.

Click Here for Names Index. * Click Here for List of All Surnames.


Please understand that this is my best understanding of my ancestry. There are errors of research and undoubtedly of transcription; moreover, some errors intentionally silently serve as place-holders until I can find better information. Further, research continues to bring new information to light that corrects long-standing errors in well-known sources.

Use this information freely as a baseline for your own research, but this site should be viewed as a collection of leads, *not* as definitive, professional genealogical research.

I do what I call "extended genealogy": I work to connect my major lines--and particularly the women, who have so often been overlooked--to the other families who settled primarily in Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts in the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Along the way I have linked hundreds of famous people, including many famous Mainers, to my genealogical "web," so you can find folks like Sarah Orne Jewett, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Stephen King, to name a few, if you poke around enough (or use these links: SOJ, HWL, SEK). Indeed, we're all, somehow, connected.

Each of the major surname links above will take you to a page where you can access genealogical information, resources, and tombstone and other photographs related to that line. "Affiliated lines" will connect you directly to a genealogical index page in a new window.

As always and again, genealogical information found on-line should be treated as a secondary source until independently verified by documentary evidence.


Information provided by
Kathrine Cole Aydelott, MLIS, PhD


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NOTE A

My site has wildly outgrown the free search service provided by the fine folks at FreeFind, to the point that it isn't reasonable to include their search box on my site any longer.

Copy and paste the following search string, adding your own search terms without the brackets, into Google or your favorite search engine for optimal searching:

site:http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~megen/ [surname] [firstname]

There's a space after the ~megen/ and spaces between search terms. Good luck!


NOTE B

I currently have over 240,000 names in my database, and on any given day well over 55% of those individuals are related to me in some way. Most pertain to the above surnames as these families resided in New England broadly, or Maine specifically, from the 17th century to the present.

I do *not* have documentation for individuals outside of my Main/e surnames. Please see the surname Resources pages for sources I've used that you might find helpful in your own research.

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This site was created April 18, 2001. Last updated June 2023.

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