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Category Archives: Geographic Genealogy
Faces from the Past – Eddy, Pélissier, WWI Memorial, & Oak Hill Students
Four newly digitized photographs from the Scarborough Historical Society reveal new research on the Eddy sisters, Gabrielle Pélissier, the Scarborough WWI Memorial, and a class of Oak Hill School students — can you help identify the rest? Continue reading
Posted in Maine Genealogy, Photo Identification, SHS Photo Collection
Tagged AmVets' Hall, Blanche Eddy, Cabinet Cards, Dunstan, Gabrielle Pélissier, Harry Welch, Josephine Eddy, Margaret Wright, Nancy Libbey, Oak Hill School, Ralph Sargent, Rensel Colby, Sarah Wyman, Unidentified Photographs, WWI Memorial
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Faces from the Past – Meserve, Moulton, & Poland
Five cabinet card portraits from the SHS Photo Collection offer a glimpse into the lives of Scarborough families and their descendants in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Three Scarborough subjects — Charles Moulton, Hannah Libby Meserve Moulton, and (probably) Rosile Dolley Poland of West Scarborough — are joined by Portland physician Dr. Willis Bean Moulton, grandson of Charles and Hannah, and an unidentified young man from Lewiston whose identity remains a mystery. Continue reading
Posted in Photo Identification, Maine Genealogy, SHS Photo Collection
Tagged Rosile Dolley Poland, Cabinet Cards, Conaut Portland, Don Taylor genealogy, West Scarborough, Broad Turn, Scarborough Town Farm, Unidentified Photographs, Webber Brunswick, Bowdoin College, Civil War Pension, Moulton Family, Alvin Poland, Willis Bean Moulton, Colpitts Lewiston, Hannah Meserve Moulton, Johns Hopkins, Charles Moulton, Photo Collection #11
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Amanda Taft Whitney (1798–1872): An Ancestor Sketch
Born in Massachusetts in 1798 and carried west as an infant by her migrating family, Amanda Taft Whitney spent her life in Broome County, New York — raising ten children and outliving most of her generation. Her story is unusually well-documented. Read on to meet a woman the census records refused to forget. Continue reading
Posted in Ancestor Sketch, Family Lines, New York Genealogy, Massachusetts Genealogy, Roberts-Barnes, Geographic Genealogy, Ancestor Features
Tagged Broome County NY, 1800 Census, Sharon Schoharie County New York, Taft Family, Triangle Broome County New York, Asa Taft, 1850 Census, Partridgefield Massachusetts, Hinsdale Massachusetts, 1865 New York State Census, 1855 New York State Census, Amanda Taft Whitney, New England Migration, Chauncey Whitney, 4th Grand-Aunt, Ancestor Sketch, Sarah Whitney Taft
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Unidentified Faces – Dyer, Libby, and Six Unlabeled Women
Linwood Dyer Collection, Part 097By Don Taylor IntroductionThe Scarborough Historical Society maintains several important photographic collections documenting people, places, and events. In this installment of Faces from the Past, I examine eight more photographs from the Linwood Dyer Collection. Sadly, … Continue reading
Posted in Maine Genealogy, Linwood Dyer Collection, Faces from the Past
Tagged Portland Maine Photographers, Faces from the Past, Libby family, Cumberland County Maine, Dyer family, Scarborough Historical Society, Jackson & Kinney, Cape Elizabeth Maine, Maine genealogy, Cabinet Cards, Linwood Dyer Collection
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Lurancy Taft (1796-1870)
Luransa Taft (1796–1870), Ahnentafel #41, was the daughter of Asa Taft and Sarah Whitney and spent most of her life in Triangle, Broome County, New York. Married at seventeen to Luman Olmstead, she raised a large family and appears regularly in state and federal censuses. This profile confirms her maternal line and helps clarify confusion surrounding similarly named women in the Taft family. Continue reading
Posted in Ancestor Sketch, Massachusetts Genealogy, Roberts-Barnes
Tagged Berkshire County Massachusetts, Sarah Whitney, Taft, maternal lineage research, 19th Century Genealogy, Triangle New York, Broome County New York, Asa Taft, Partridgefield Massachusetts, Luransa Taft, Lurancy Olmstead
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