This page's background is a muted copy of my great-grandfather Frank J. Curtis' signature, shown at right, found on the inside back cover of "The Salvation Army Song Book."
For privacy reasons, Date of Birth and Date of Marriage for persons believed to still be living will be removed from this Web site shown.
When I embarked on my journey in online genealogy, I did not imagine the wealth of information that I would find. I have not been able to find any evidence to verify any of my family's stories; however, I have found an even more interesting family history.
Someone once wrote, "TO BE A VIRGINIAN, either by birth, marriage, adoption, or even one's mother's side, is an introduction to any state in the Union, a passport to any foreign country, and a benediction from the Almighty God." I now have my passport.
I found such a wealth of information that I must divide it. The "trunk" of my family tree may be found at Rexanna's Family Tree. Jeremy's paternal family tree is available at this Web site's legal links page.
For the present time, I have divided the information into 12 Web pages. The first six pages are solely devoted to the ancestors of my maternal great-grandparents.
Graves Pack's second wife, Sarah (whom we appear to be descended from), was such an interesting Colonial Williamsburg lady that she merits a page all of her own.
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir in concert with the Boston Pops at Boston's 4th of July Foreworks Spectacular.
"A web site put together by the Morman Church lists 400 million names of people who lived as long ago as 1500, many of them with pedigree charts." Access to genealogical data is free.
How do you determine relationships? Figure out the relationships between family members using a simple chart.
Genealogy.com does a better job of explaining relationships, but the chart of limited value for families with long lineages. This chart is bigger.
"In 1784, the elderly Benjamin Franklin had served in France as ambassador for the past six years. During part of that time he had participated in the protracted peace negotiations with England. Early that year he wrote a long letter to his daughter, Sarah, now the wife of Richard Bache, who had followed Franklin as U. S. Postmaster General.
This charming letter is full of insights and leavened with humor. Its main context is an argument against a hereditary nobility for our new country. Some of the flavor of his argument is contained in his comment on the Chinese, among whom "honor does not descend, but ascends."
This essay does not discuss daylight saving time. Rather, it is known for comparing the eagle and the turkey. The eagle is a bird of bad moral character. Yet, turkey was a staple, together with venison, corn and pumpkin, at those harvest feasts shared by the Massasoits and Wampanoags and Pilgrims in the Massachusetts Bay Colony of the 1620s."
"The Packet serves the town of Clarenville and 56 other communities within its Bonavista Bay market area. Published every Monday, and reaching 88% of the direct market households, The Packet has an average circulation of 7,658 copies per issue." My maternal grandmother, Annie Gladys Keats, was the corresondent in Port Blandford for many years. For many years, birthday greetings to my sister and I were published in the Packet annually.
My maternal grandmother, Annie Gladys Keats, was granddaughter of John and Annie Wells. Her mother, Esther Ellen, was born on Gooseberry Island in 1898. This directory lists a John Wells as a fisherman.
This directory lists a John Wells as a fisherman again.
"Gooseberry is divided in to two islands, north and south, divided by a tickle about 100 to 200 ft across. Bill indicates that he thinks that this is a Protestant cemetery and I have seen some of the family names as U.C., S.A and Methodist. Maybe we should not refer to the religion. This cemetery was found in the woods near Old House Cove on Gooseberry Island (North Island). It was fenced in recent years."
WELLS'S
DARIUS
FREDERICK
MARION
SADIE
RONALD
ANNIE
South Gooseberry Island was vacated in 1947-1948.
This letter reminds me of my extended family!
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The University of New Brunswick was established in 1785 as the Provincial Academy of Arts and Sciences. It offers undergraduate and graduate programs in arts, administration, computer science, education, engineering, forestry, recreation and leisure studies, laws, nursing, and science. The Old Arts Building is the oldest university building still in use on any campus in Canada.
For those of you who are really observant, the picture in the upper left-hand corner of this page is of a tree in the forefront of the skyline of Boston. (It was taken from the Esplanade.) To my knowledge, neither Jeremy nor I have any immediate family in Boston.
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