New England Historic Genealogical Society

I use Legacy Family Tree and like it. I switched from PAF a few years ago; that's a great, simple program, also. Legacy has enough "bells & whistles" for me, but is not so complex that I have to spend research time trying to learn how to use it. Just remember - probably no program will do every single thing the exact way you'd like.

I started with PAF and that worked fine at the beginning. As I became more experienced with research I looked for another program. I use Roots Magic 4. I like that you can add lots of facts, and it helps you to put your sources in a correct format. I did end up buying the book that goes with it in order to get the most out of it. You can try the program for free.

I would suggest Donald Lines Jacobus' Families of Old Fairfield, they appear in Torrey's marriage indexes as being in Fairfield, 1:208

go to the website and check the online card catalog

Thanks for your reply. I know it is going to be expensive.

Love the CD idea, I was pondering the same thing. I am working on a genealogy which is over 500 pages and I'm probably half done. Thanks!

An attempt to provide the sort of reference you are after is Paul Drake, WHAT DID THEY MEAN BY THAT?: A DICTIONARY OF HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL TERMS OLD AND NEW (Second edition, Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2008); and its sequel, MORE WHAT DID THEY MEAN BY THAT? (Heritage Books, 2006). These are not very comprehensive, and the ... Read Moredefinitions aren't exactly scholarly, but they can be helpful. If you can get through its massive content, the core reference book for old terminology is, of course, the Oxford English Dictionary. To the best of my understanding, "Upon the memorial of..." is more or less equivalent to "in response to the petition from..."

There is some interesting information on the Lyman School here: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~history/grafton/LymanSchool.html

Thanks Deborah!

Yes, and I have found a lot of information about the ancestors of Agnes Harris, but not the emigration data. However, I did find the emigration data on the Tuttles family, also in the Edwards line. They came on the Planter in 1635 from London to Boston. I hope to have a similiar find for Agnes. Thanks.

Peggy, the best source for Agnes Harris The Great Migration Begins (2002, on NEHGS site, in book form, and on CD-ROM), entries for Matthew Allyn and William Spencer; and Doug Richardson's article in The American Genealogist, 63(1988):33-45. If ship name is not in these sources and has not been discovered since 2002, I think you can assume it's unknown. You probably are aware of Agnes's royal and Magna Carta ancestry?