I too would like to go to Washington County, Maine and find Perkins relatives. Also Ross and Fosters from Carlton County,N.B. and Aroostook County, Maine.I have a brick wall with Mehitable Tibbets From Carlton county. Pat Davis --- On Fri, 7/17/09, Betty <bbffrrpp@comcast.net> wrote: From: Betty <bbffrrpp@comcast.net> Subject: [CAN-USA-MIG] Where Would You Vacation for Genealogy Reasons? To: can-usa-migration@rootsweb.com Date: Friday, July 17, 2009, 7:11 AM Hello, In order to get the List back to mentioning our ancestors, and how to find out about their lives, I can offer a Subject matter which I just thought of. I get e-mail-reminders from genealogy-publishing companies,  and a book was mentioned this morning:    "Collecting Dead Relatives."   And, it has a picture of a woman chasing "relatives"  with a large butterfly net on the front cover.     See below. I was also thinking that this is summertime and when a lot of people go on vacation - sometimes genealogists do.    (And that is a reason there are less queries on the Lists during July and August.     So, I came up with a suggestion for a topic.       IF you had the money, the health, and the time, or the wherewithal,  to take an extended vacation / trip for genealogy reasons,  where would you go? I have several  "to do lists,"   of course "household to do's"  and  "family to do's,"  but I have 2  "genealogy to do's."    One is the list of all my "brick walls" and finding out more information about those ancestors. But, the other is a list of all the places I would travel to and spend time in - for genealogy reasons.    At the top of my list, and the one which has been there the longest, is spend a month, or even a summer, in Washington County, Maine.     I want to see where my KIDDER and WILKINS families lived during all of the 1800's.      (Some of their descendants still live there, and they won't respond to my letters, but maybe they would open their door, if I knocked on it. * (I'd make side-trips to both New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, as my ancestors lived there, also.    My LEWIS / CORKILL great-grandmother had 3 siblings remain in Nova Scotia when she and one sister came down to MA.) Near the top of the List is spending a month, or even a summer,  in Argenteuil County, Province of Quebec.    I hear that it's beautiful country !    And I'd like to visit the long-standing  "KERR Farm."    And, maybe I'd get lucky and meet some descendants of the KERR's and HENDERSON's. I have another set of genealogy-pen-pals in Canada, specifically in British Columbia.     And, I hear that is beautiful country, also.    Perhaps a few weeks in Vancouver would be nice. Trips "across the big pond" would take a little more planning.    The majority of my direct ancestors came from the United Kingdom, either in the 1600's, or a few sets from the 1800's.    Perhaps a month in England would give me a sense of how my ancestors from 1800's lived.    But, then we have the major "brick wall ancestors" who supposedly lived in County Sligo, Ireland.    And other ancestors moved back and forth between Ireland and Scotland in late 1700's.    So, maybe I would spend a month visiting both areas. That's all I'll mention this morning.          Have a pleasant weekend ! Betty         (near Lowell, MA, USA) List Administrator FYI: http://www.genealogical.com/products/Collecting%20Dead%20Relatives/2105.html *  Actually,  last month I wrote a letter to the Public Library in Princeton, Maine, asking for help with my KIDDER research.     The Librarian responded, and not only did she send some information but she went to the cemeteries and took a few pictures for me.   Adding to that?    She is a KIDDER descendant.     She is also descended from what I call "the two Calvin's."  But, she came from a different grandson / son.     ("very distant cousin.") When you want to respond to a query or comment posted on this List,  I find it MUCH easier to post a new message -- remembering to include the SUBJECT from the post you are responding to !!    Please make sure there is a SURNAME or place-name in the Subject. To search the archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=CAN-USA-MIGRATION The information page is: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Immigration/CAN-USA-MIGRATION.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CAN-USA-MIGRATION-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message