New England Historic Genealogical Society

Doesn't that make. You a bigot as well?

Dr. Gates is controversial at times; however, this is a great show so watch it and your impression of him will change!!

I especially like that it's included in our membership! Thank you.

The NEHGS membership is awesome; the best $75 annual fee I have ever spent. It has helped me so much with my family tree!

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 switched from FTM to Legacy Family Tree years ago upon recommendation of a professional genealogist. You may download the basic program free from their web site. I have the deluxe version which I highly recommend. The owners/programmers are LDS and know what a customer needs and wants in a geneology program. They also don't charge you for fixing their bugs like FTM does.

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 ... See 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!