Today there are many options for us to choose from when researching our Irish ancestors – but it wasn’t always this way. In those dark days before the internet and the recent interest in family history there were far fewer choices. … Continued
English Captives & Prisoners Remaining in New France by Professor Roger Lawrence Publisher: American-Canadian Genealogical Society, Manchester, New Hampshire 2015 Roger Lawrence has spent 30 years researching the New England captives taken by Indians allied with New France … Continued
I am excited to announce that the Vermont Genealogy Library has added Irish and British Origins (www.origins.net) as their newest online database resource which can be accessed from the Library’s computers. Origins.net is a comprehensive British & Irish record collections, … Continued
Over the last eighteen years, the Vermont French-Canadian Genealogical Society has amassed a great number of resources for their Vermont Genealogy Library. John Fisher, VT-FCGS Member #2 and the webmaster of the www.vt-fcgs.org website has added a new piece of … Continued
While conducting research on our Allard family line, I have found that there have bee many transpositions of the name. These include: Alard, Alare, Alart, and Halare. But Pork? I highly questioned this. Taken literally, the translation of Lard in … Continued
An older couple stopped in to our Library one night when my father, Paul, one of our founding members, and his wife, Jan, one of our expert librarians, were working. The wife was very enthusiastic about her search, excited about … Continued