You have chosen what can at times be a humbling profession. Just think how us "amateurs" feel about having to…
I may be jumping into a long, ongoing conversation, but I wonder whether you use familysearch.org for probate documents? And,…
Is Ancestry the only way to see Massachusetts wills and probates?
Hi cousin! My email is cchild [AT] nehgs.org
Hi Mike. Yes your Richard Child is the person I mentioned above as brother to Joseph and John, all of…
In my own research, I am finding an abundance of wills from the Ancestry database that apparently earlier researchers had…
Thanks for another interesting piece, Chris. My wife is descended from a Richard Child whose daughter Experience married Benjamin Flagg,…
I don’t know if you can cook but you can sure make nice charts!
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I enjoyed this article very much, Chris. Especially since it enabled me to finally, after all these years, figure out…