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Salmon Brook, which started out as no more than a small cluster of houses and a remote outpost of Simsbury, would later become part of the n...

One of the joys of family research is discovering lines of ancestors that you had never heard of. In my search, there have been a few of the...

Located north of Hartford on the Connecticut River, Windsor was the first permanent settlement in the, soon-to-be Connecticut Colony and the...

The primary focus of Genealogy is often concentrated on individual ancestors and their connection to others in the family. It is concerned a...

Catherine Chapin was the wife of Nathaniel Bliss and the mother of Mary Bliss. She was born is Pomeroy, Devon, England in 1622. Catherine wa...

Mary Bliss was the wife of Nathaniel Holcombe. She was born is Springfield, Massachusetts in 1651. Mary was the third of four children of Na...

“ My Other Blog - Family History and Genealogy " celebrated its 6th anniversary yesterday, September 30, 2016. On that same day in 2010...

Since first discovering that my grandmother, Grace Holcomb could be traced back to Thomas Holcombe, an early settler to New England, I have ...