This month is the 250th birthday of John Quincy Adams, as Danielle Cournoyer reminds us on the Vita Brevis blog. This reminds me of my own little JQA story, from a few years ago, a timely illustration of some of the “gotchas” you can face when using transcriptions. I was researching a line in my [...]
I’ve been reading through the early laws of Massachusetts Bay, the 17th century colonial laws, excerpting those that are most-relevant to genealogists, such as those pertaining to qualifications for marriage, processing of estates, land transactions and such. I think this could make a useful pamphlet or e-book. In order to find these nuggets, however, I [...]
I was searching for court records related to an ancestor of mine, Thomas Joy, who was a minor figure in a 1646 conspiracy in Massachusetts, related to a petition sometimes called “Child’s Remonstrance.” After jumping from Savage (vol. 2, p. 572) to Winthrop’s Journal (vol. 2, p. 308) I ended up at the Records [...]
