This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Abbott, Winn Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AFB.2ACE/1861 Message Board Post: Tilden Grafton (or Grafton Tilden) Abbott was arrested on April 21, 1884 in Pierce City, MO or allegedly embezzling the Union Market National Bank of Watertown, Massachusetts. Does anyone know the rest of the story?

Hi Barbara, This is the web site for the Town of Reading, and it has a box to click on for the "Assessor's Data." But, I did a search for "Meadowbrook" and I get the page where there should be information, and no information is posted. http://www.ci.reading.ma.us/ I think you will find that, of the towns and cities which now offer this "service," the amount of information you can access will vary greatly. Also, I have the best luck with finding the official web sites for a town or city -- by doing a search at Google for "full name of town, full name of state." For example, Googling for "Reading, Massachusetts" (including quotes). Betty (near Lowell, MA) ----- Original Message ----- From: <Nsambradley@aol.com> To: <MAMIDDLE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 12:27 AM Subject: Help-information needed? > Hello, I am trying to find a way of obtaining photo's of my old family > home > in Reading MA. > I know some city and towns have an Accessor web site where you can type in > address and the picture of home etc will pop up. does Reading have this? > If > so how would I get to its web site. I was in Reading from 1949 -1976. > We > were the original owners of the house I am trying to obtain a photo of. > Any > help would be appreciated. 10 Meadowbrook Lane is the address. Thank > you. > Barbara > > ______________________________

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gilmour/Gilmore Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AFB.2ACE/1860 Message Board Post: Seeking information on this sanatorium, have 2 brothers who were interned there in 1917 with Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Both died within 2 years. Walter and William Gilmour. Any help would be appreciated.

From The Arlington Advocate, 31 March 1938 - Daniel F. Ahern, William H. A. Brigham, Thomas J. Kiernan, and Harry L. Woodward, the latter in Melrose, deceased. See http://www.rootsweb.com/~mamidnws/1938/MAR.html#31 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | Middlesex County Massachusetts Newspaper Abstracts Acton, Massachusetts | http://www.rootsweb.com/~mamidnws/index.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Hello, My family has in its possession a "very" small, 1892 book on the descendants of Roger WELLINGTON. It was written by one of his descendants: A. W. GRISWOLD (full name: Adeline Wellington (HOMER) GRISWOLD), and it is mostly about her family. I might be exaggerating if I say it is about 10 pages long, but it is an actual, published book with hard-covers. But, Adeline or someone else wrote additional information on the pages and inside covers and taped 3 death notices to the inside cover. Taking that it came from my great-grandmother's farmhouse in Winchester, we knew that her ancestors were somehow related to the WELLINGTON family, and the keyword is HOMER ! Yesterday I spent some time trying to read the very tiny, pencil-made handwriting in this book, and then, with my family-tree information in mind, did some on-line investigating. I now have a better idea of the family of my ancestor, nee' Betsey HOMER, b1786 in Boston. I'd just like to offer a simple, basic outline of the very extended family of .. Jeduthan WELLINGTON, b1750. With this information, whoever is researching members of this family can use the information to do more research. Jeduthan WELLINGTON, b1750 MA?, seems to be the son of .. Joseph WELLINGTON and Dorcas STONE, m1733, and they had 10 children ! Jeduthan married 1) Susannah REED, b1775 in Woburn / Burlington Jeduthan and Susannah had 8 children: Susannah, Charles, Sophia, Mary, Hannah, Henry, Jeduthan, and Sophia. Susannah d1802. Jeduthan married 2) Mrs. Elizabeth (LORING) (HOMER) WINNECK, b1766 MA? Jeduthan and Elizabeth had 4 more children: Maria, Louisa, Alfred, and Adeline. Jeduthan d1838, and Elizabeth d1851. (I'm not finding marriage dates, and children's birthyears are sketchy in book.) In regards to Elizabeth LORING, b1766 in Boston, married Capt. Jacob HOMER in early 1786 in Boston, and I believe my sister told me that he died (at sea?) while she was pregnant with their daughter, and she was born at the end of 1786. Mrs. Elizabeth (LORING) HOMER then remarried to John WINNECK, possibly around 1790. John and Elizabeth WINNECK had 2 children: William WINNECK, b1793 and Sarah WINNECK, b179?. William grew up to marry Mahala CUTTER, but I don't know about Sarah. I also do not know what happened to John WINNECK. In 1803, Mrs. Elizabeth (LORING) (HOMER) WINNECK remarried to Jeduthan WELLINGTON of "West Cambridge" in the part which became Belmont ! And, Jeduthan and Elizabeth then had 4 children. I read in the book that Jeduthan had a very large house in "Belmont" and there was plenty of room for the 14 or 15 children who came to live in the home ! Miss Betsey HOMER was about 17 when her mother married Jeduthan, so she never knew her birth-father and then had two step-fathers during her childhood ! I said I wasn't going to mention the HUTCHINSON name again this week, but Betsey HOMER married ... Thomas HUTCHINSON, and they had 6 children. :o) Of the younger children of Jeduthan WELLINGTON, he had 2 daughters marry into the HOMER family. Adeline married William HOMER, and Louisa married his brother, Eleazer HOMER. The book says that they were sons of Eleazer HOMER who was a brother to Capt. Jacob HOMER (son of Jacob HOMER, etc.). So, it seems that Mrs. Elizabeth WELLINGTON remained in touch with her HOMER in-law's ! If I think about this, my ancestor, Mrs. Betsey (HOMER) HUTCHINSON, would have had her younger half-sisters marrying her cousins (through her late father's brother). Also, Mrs. Betsey HUTCHINSON died in May 1858. So, this Thomas HUTCHINSON, who owned the land in Winchester, only had one wife ! I hope this helps someone ! I hope everyone in MA is coping with the copious rain ! Am hoping for copious May flowers ! Betty (near Lowell, MA) P.S. I didn't look up the history of Belmont, but I read that part of the "West Cambridge" which became Arlington, became Belmont. And, I read both in the book and in the archives of the Boards/Lists that the WELLINGTON family owned large, important pieces of property in Belmont - some of which became part of the cemeteries in Cambridge ! I also noticed that in the early 1800's, what is now Arlington and Belmont - was listed as "West Cambridge" in the census - separately from Cambridge ! P.S.2 We already discussed the WELLINGTON name in regards to Medford a few months ago, and I think I read that they owned large farms there. Does anyone know whether there was only one WELLINGTON patriarch, and all the WELLINGTON's in the Medford, Arlington, Belmont general area were all related ?? P.S.3 If anyone needs additional information from this "tiny" book, I'll try to find it either in the text or the "tiny" handwriting. As I mentioned yesterday, I am finding out that the HUTCHINSON's were "well to do families" who hung around with "people of great wealth," and the WELLINGTON's were included ! So, I wouldn't be surprised if Mrs. GRISWOLD had this very short book published with her own money. P.S.4 There is a page mentioning that several of the WELLINGTON's are buried "in the old graveyard in Arlington."

The Middlesex Chapter of MSOG, Inc., welcomes Nancy Gaudette, well known Local History Librarian of The Worcester Public Library as the featured lecturer on Saturday, May 13, 2006 at the monthly meeting to be held at the Waltham Public Library. The meeting will begin at 1:30 p.m., with a brief business overview. Join us as local History Worcester Librarian Nancy Gaudette presents important information about using the Internet to Research Genealogy Questions. She will focus upon learning how to use the Internet; how to evaluate the information that is found, as well as to recognize the value of the website(s) that carries the information. She will demonstrate "some of the most useful and helpful websites for genealogy research". The Waltham Public Library is located at 735 Main Street, Waltham, MA. The library parking lot is limited, however, there is on-street metered parking. More parking is available at the City lot, about two blocks east on Lexington Street, close to Main St.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AFB.2ACE/1621.3.1 Message Board Post: Hi Jim Thank you for your mail.Thank you very much for trying to help me - I can tell you that I have found my family.Jens Peter died in 1961 and in usa he called himself Jens.Only his two grandchildren are still alive. They were very glad to hear from me and one of them are comming to denmark this summer to stay with us.I could not have done this without help from people like you - so thank you very much. Berith

Hello, I am trying to find a way of obtaining photo's of my old family home in Reading MA. I know some city and towns have an Accessor web site where you can type in address and the picture of home etc will pop up. does Reading have this? If so how would I get to its web site. I was in Reading from 1949 -1976. We were the original owners of the house I am trying to obtain a photo of. Any help would be appreciated. 10 Meadowbrook Lane is the address. Thank you. Barbara

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Norman/Sheppard Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AFB.2ACE/1859 Message Board Post: I am looking for information about Elizabeth Norman who arrived in Somerville, Mass aboard the S.S.Newfoundland in June of 1927. Elizabeth was from Port De Grave, Newfoundland and was going to live indefinitely with her daughter Mrs W. Matthews at 6 Cypress St. in Somerville. I believe Elizabeth Norman was a sister-in-law of my greatgrandmother Grace (Norman) Sheppard. I know very little about Grace and I'm hoping there are relatives of Elizabeth who have researched her family and might have come across references to Grace. Regards, Marge

From The Arlington News, 1 April 1938 - William H. Brigham, Dana A. Olson, William Clark Wilcox, Thomas J. Kiernan, Daniel F. Ahern, and James F. Sherlock, deceased; Ronald McFarlane, 11, and Joseph Christopher, 12, struck by autos in separate incidents; Boston College Club to have communion breakfast at Wyman's Restaurant; Cornelia Otis Skinner to address Medford Teachers Club. See http://www.rootsweb.com/~mamidnws/1938/APR.html#1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | Middlesex County Massachusetts Newspaper Abstracts Acton, Massachusetts | http://www.rootsweb.com/~mamidnws/index.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AFB.2ACE/1830.3 Message Board Post: Vanessa, There is a book written: Lydia Longley, the first American Nun This is a book of William and Lydia's daughter Lydia who was captured and taken to Canada. In the book it indicates that her mother Lydia's maiden name was unknown. It also indicates at the time of the indian attack in 1694 that Lydia was living with her father William and her Step Mother Deliverance. So it appears her mother Lydia most likely died young. Go to this web site to read the book: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3837/is_200207/ai_n9087218 Cheers, Glenn

Hello, One last posting on this family for this week ! I'm finding out that the interrelated HUTCHINSON, CROSBY, WELLINGTON, and HOMER families originating in 1800's Winchester and Arlington, MA, were "people of wealth" !!! This is especially for the family members who moved to Brooklyn, NY, somewhere around 1860 ! This includes the related spouses with the SYMMES and JOHNSON names. And, I have seen two of the JOHNSON's referred to as "Capitalists." I just looked up the definition and they are "people of great wealth." I don't know what happened with the HUTCHINSON brothers and one sister who remained in Winchester, MA ! But, their "great wealth" certainly did not get down to ... my great-grandmother ! :o( Or, if it did, she certainly ... hid it well ! I'm told that she and her disabled son were within weeks of losing their large HUTCHINSON Farm in Winchester in 1958 - for lack of paying their R.E. taxes ! Were they too far removed ..... from their cousins in Brooklyn, NY ??? :o( P.S. I'm looking for a better description of family of John HUTCHINSON and Sarah FROST, and whether their son, Thomas M. HUTCHINSON, was their 8th .. child ! (not mentioned by some researchers) And, I'm wondering if John had children before he married Sarah in 1772. (He reportedly was married twice before.) P.S.2 I'm finally seeing the connection between the HUTCHINSON's, HOMER's, and WELLINGTON's ! Mrs. Betsey (HOMER) HUTCHINSON might have had two brothers, Eleazer and William HOMER, who married two WELLINGTON sisters in Belmont !

Maureen Reilly contributed these from The Lowell Sun, 9 August 1909 - Mrs. Addie N. Brown, Clement C. Wilcox, Mrs. Mary J. O'Neil, Catherine McMahon, Miss Amanda Daggett, Mrs. Cornelia E. Duncklee and Patrick McKeever, deceased. See http://www.rootsweb.com/~mamidnws/1909/AUG.html#9 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | Middlesex County Massachusetts Newspaper Abstracts Acton, Massachusetts | http://www.rootsweb.com/~mamidnws/index.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Peggy Brown submitted this from The Maynard Enterprise, 10 April 1918 - Civil War veteran James Butterworth Lord, deceased. See http://www.rootsweb.com/~mamidnws/1918/APR.html#10 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | Middlesex County Massachusetts Newspaper Abstracts Acton, Massachusetts | http://www.rootsweb.com/~mamidnws/index.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

From The Acton Enterprise, 14 December 1932 - Acton: Civil War veteran Emery D. Lothrop, deceased; Stuart Kennedy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Kennedy, stuck a wood screw up his nose; Mrs. Daisy Spinney is much improved; Mrs. Jennie Holton and Mrs. Ida MacGregor were put in charge of the West Acton Neighborhood Club's Christmas food sale; Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Flint are moving in with Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Stearns for the Winter; Mr. and Mrs. William Griggs of Bangor, Maine, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Albion A. Johnson; the Welfare Committee of South Acton are asked to bring discarded clothing to South Acton Improvement Association rooms at the library, for distribution by Miss Frost, the Acton Town Nurse. Maynard: Owen Frankland, William Coulter and Harriet Kinestead won prizes at Maynard Assembly Rainbow for Girls whist party; Miss Edith B. Foster, school nurse, reports that she examined 469 pupils. Bedford: Mr. and Mrs. A. Agrillo have daughter; Mrs. John Brown has son; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cook closed their home for the Winter and gone to live in Boston; Mrs. Howard Davis has pneumonia; Anna McGann was operated on for appendicitis; Dorothy Richards, Virginia Boynton, and Albert Raymond were soloists at First Parish Christmas concert; Mrs. Waino Williams shot a deer. Concord: Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar scholarship at Harvard awarded to Winthrop H. Lee; Miss Marion A. Barker appointed to the faculty of the Longy School of Music; George M. Brown has moved from 3 Bedford street to 11 Bedford street; Mr. and Mrs. William Camps observed their Golden wedding anniversary; Mrs. Ella Pierce Stearns and Mrs. Sara Indiana (Rice) Back, deceased; Mrs. Elwyn W. Harris gave an interesting reading at DAR meeting. Marlboro: Archie Cormier and Mrs. Louis Buisson organizing charity whist party for St. Mary's parish Charitable Association; Mrs. Mary Hird of Maynard and her daughters Helen and Alice elected to posts in the Bessie L. Marshall Auxiliary of the United Spanish War Veterans; Representative Edith Nourse Rogers faces down man with gun in House gallery; Mrs. Alice G. Loynd, of Waltham, injured in auto accident, Alfred Ritchie and Richard R. Waterhouse of came to her assistance. Sudbury: the Woman's Club will visit the plant of the First National stores at Somerville on a tour of inspection, sign up with Mrs. Frank Norton, chairman of the American Home Committee; Miss Lilla Adams went to New Bedford to spend the winter with her niece, Mrs. Frank Thrasher. See http://www.rootsweb.com/~mamidnws/1932/DEC.html#14 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | Middlesex County Massachusetts Newspaper Abstracts Acton, Massachusetts | http://www.rootsweb.com/~mamidnws/index.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AFB.2ACE/1857.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Eileen, An even easier way to look at the records is to order the microfilm from the FHL. The probate records you want are available. On www.familysearch.org, go to Middlesex, Massachusetts or to the subject " Massachusetts, Middlesex - Probate records " or to microfilm number 397090, which covers Probate papers 10941-11035 (the whole series will be shown). The microfilms of the probate records cover from the year 1648 to 1924. Best of luck. Sue Richart Chewelah, Washington

Good morning, everyone. :-) I'm forwarding the letter below to the list in hopes that some of you might be able to help. Please reply to Laura at lawalika@mtu.edu as she is not on the list and would not receive replies sent to the list. Thank you. John Slaughter In loving memory of our son, Brennan. 11/10/88-5/31/01. http://john-slaughter.rootsweb.com/Brennan.html MA-Bay-Colony & MAMiddle list moderator USGenWeb County Coordinator Essex County, MA - http://www.rootsweb.com/~maessex Middlesex County, MA - http://www.rootsweb.com/~mamiddle USGenWeb Town Coordinator Ipswich, Essex, MA - http://www.rootsweb.com/~macipswi >From: lawalika@mtu.edu >To: mamiddlegenweb@hotmail.com >Subject: Brown Family Info >Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 22:26:28 -0400 (EDT) > >Hello, >My name is Laura Walikainen and I'm a graduate student in the Winterthur >Program at the University of Delaware. I'm conducting some research on the >Brown Family of Newton, MA for a class project. Specifically, I'm looking >for marriage and/or death information for Geraldine Fay Brown (or any >other information on her life). She was born in Newton on August 11, 1887 >and her parents were Ella C. (Jenkins) and J. Merrill Brown. Her mother >was apparently born in Ohio. She had an older brother named Clarence. Both >her father and her brother were architects. So far, I've only been able to >find information from the 1900 census. Please let me know if you might >have any more information on the family. I would greatly appreciate any >help you may be able to give. >Thank you very much, >Laura Walikainen > _________________________________________________________________ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/

I am as guilty as the rest of you......................... I fell for this too, and e-mailed the Mayor. See my e-mail to him below. Our culprit appears to be one Angelia Hutchins-Thomas. ================================ TO: Mayor Michael D. Hurley The following (excerpt) in a post appeared on several of the genealogy related mailing lists I subscribe to this morning and I felt compelled to write to you to express my hope that these records in question will not be destroyed. They should be published in a book that the city can profit from, not destroyed and lost to researchers and descendants forever. I include the item below so you can see what hundreds of people saw in their e-mail this morning. Sincerely, Jacqueline Sleeper Russell ======================== "Good Morning. For all of those people searching for ancestors in Waldo County, Maine this pertains to you. As a long time resident, and fairly new genealogy buff I have some information that is disturbing. There are a number of people in Belfast (where the Waldo County records are kept), that are wanting the records destroyed. There are only a few people that feel the importance about having the records available for everyone, but those few can not out weight the majority of the people who want them destroyed. The woman in charge of organizing/working with the records has been fighting them over this for some time now and her tenure will be up in a few weeks. After she is gone, there is a great possibility that the records will be lost forever. Here is a link to the City of Belfast. If you're so inclinded to email the mayor. http://www.cityofbelfast.org/councilcontact.shtm The link for the City Clerk's office, genealogical section is currently under construction. I would hate for those records to be gone. Those people who want them destroyed are thinking that it won't affect anyone or if it does it will only be a select few, they are wrong. It affects everyone and once they are gone, there will be no getting them back. Most Sincerely~ Angelia Hutchins-Thomas Ancestors: Moody, Evans, Annis, Hutchins, Pickering, Littlefield, Thomas ========================= AND, PLEASE...................... Take the time to read this, and let us all learn that before we jump in again, to research first and, react (or not react) second. JSR ====================== Hey everyone, I'm just getting in on this so I'm not sure where this all originates, but I can assure you that the City of Belfast is not planning on destroying any Belfast vital records. I have just spoken to the city clerk and can pass on a message from her to you which I will append below. She is being bombarded by folks from this list but apparently the original message was related to Waldo County records, not Belfast records. If someone would be kind enough to send me the original message or direct me to a web site that brought this all about, I would be happy to investigate and let you know what I find. Betsy Paradis Reference/Special Collections Librarian Belfast Free Library 106 High Street Belfast, Maine 04915 (207) 338-3884 Ext. 25 Here is the message from the City Clerk: Hello my name is Roberta Fogg, I am the City Clerk in the City of Belfast, Maine. I have received a dozen or so emails regarding the destruction of records in the custody of Waldo County. First of all I would like to let you all know that I personally take the preservation of all historic and vital records very seriously, and only dispose of records in accordance with the State of Maine, Department of Archives, Disposition Schedule. That being said, I am not the person who has custody of any Waldo County records. The City of Belfast does not have custody of any Waldo County records. The County of Waldo and the State of Maine, Department of Archives is the only one's who would have custody of the county records. You should direct your concerns to the Waldo County Commissioners, via Barbara Arseneau, County Clerk. email: countyclerk@waldocountyme.gov or you can call 207-338-3282. She is out of her office today at a workshop, but should be back in tomorrow. I am not sure who posted the original message about destroying county records that mobilized your group, but I would caution people to first find out if it is accurate and secondly find out what records and under what conditions any destruction would take place. Please do not believe everything you read or hear. Please give people the benefit of the doubt. Finally I feel it necessary to give a brief chain of custody lesson to people regarding government and government documents. There are three distinct layers of government in Maine; Local (also know as Municipal or Town), County (there are 16 in Maine) and the State (or we just say Augusta). Each branch of government is responsible for the care and custody of our own records. Several branches of government do overlap, usually with Vital Statistics (birth, death and marriage records), but that overlap does not eliminate the individual branches responsibility to maintain their records. We are also required to comply with the State of Maine, Department of Archives, Disposition Schedule. This schedule is located on the State of Maine website. I hope you find this helpful and will post this to your message board for all participants to read. Have a nice day, Roberta L. Fogg City Clerk City of Belfast 131 Church Street Belfast, Maine 04915 PH 207-338-3370 Fax 207-338-6222 cityclerk@cityofbelfast.org Jacqueline Sleeper Russell website: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=SRCH&db=jacquelinesr

Thanks, Jane, Charles, and Davis -- for being a voice of sanity. But this rumor/gossip/innueundo has already spread to the Massachusetts lists. How can we stop it? Karen -----Original Message----- From: David Sylvester [mailto:Roots@feliixplace.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 6:34 PM To: MEYORK-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [MEYORK] F.Y.I Fwd: Re: [Waldo County] [Fwd: DESTRUCTION OF BELFAST RECORDS] This just in from Betsy Paradis, Reference/Special Collections Librarian of the Belfast Free Library. Everybody please read. Regards, Davis Sylvester Waldo County Listowner http://www.feliixplace.com/genealogylists/waldocountymaine.html Hey everyone, I'm just getting in on this so I'm not sure where this all originates, but I can assure you that the City of Belfast is not planning on destroying any Belfast vital records. I have just spoken to the city clerk and can pass on a message from her to you which I will append below. She is being bombarded by folks from this list but apparently the original message was related to Waldo County records, not Belfast records. If someone would be kind enough to send me the original message or direct me to a web site that brought this all about, I would be happy to investigate and let you know what I find. Betsy Paradis Reference/Special Collections Librarian Belfast Free Library 106 High Street Belfast, Maine 04915 (207) 338-3884 Ext. 25 Here is the message from the City Clerk: Hello my name is Roberta Fogg, I am the City Clerk in the City of Belfast, Maine. I have received a dozen or so emails regarding the destruction of records in the custody of Waldo County. First of all I would like to let you all know that I personally take the preservation of all historic and vital records very seriously, and only dispose of records in accordance with the State of Maine, Department of Archives, Disposition Schedule. That being said, I am not the person who has custody of any Waldo County records. The City of Belfast does not have custody of any Waldo County records. The County of Waldo and the State of Maine, Department of Archives is the only one's who would have custody of the county records. You should direct your concerns to the Waldo County Commissioners, via Barbara Arseneau, County Clerk. email: countyclerk@waldocountyme.gov or you can call 207-338-3282. She is out of her office today at a workshop, but should be back in tomorrow. I am not sure who posted the original message about destroying county records that mobilized your group, but I would caution people to first find out if it is accurate and secondly find out what records and under what conditions any destruction would take place. Please do not believe everything you read or hear. Please give people the benefit of the doubt. Finally I feel it necessary to give a brief chain of custody lesson to people regarding government and government documents. There are three distinct layers of government in Maine; Local (also know as Municipal or Town), County (there are 16 in Maine) and the State (or we just say Augusta). Each branch of government is responsible for the care and custody of our own records. Several branches of government do overlap, usually with Vital Statistics (birth, death and marriage records), but that overlap does not eliminate the individual branches responsibility to maintain their records. We are also required to comply with the State of Maine, Department of Archives, Disposition Schedule. This schedule is located on the State of Maine website. I hope you find this helpful and will post this to your message board for all participants to read. Have a nice day, Roberta L. Fogg City Clerk City of Belfast 131 Church Street Belfast, Maine 04915 PH 207-338-3370 Fax 207-338-6222 cityclerk@cityofbelfast.org ============================== Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx

It's not destroyed yet but it may be soon. Below is a copy of an e-mail from people on a Waldo County, Maine mailing list. Everyone needs to write to the Mayor of Belfast and let him know we do NOT want Maine's history destroyed. Be polite, of course, but firm. Here's the message: "Good Morning. For all of those people searching for ancestors in Waldo County, Maine this pertains to you. As a long time resident, and fairly new genealogy buff I have some information that is disturbing. There are a number of people in Belfast (where the Waldo County records are kept), that are wanting the records destroyed. There are only a few people that feel the importance about having the records available for everyone, but those few can not out weight the majority of the people who want them destroyed. The woman in charge of organizing/working with the records has been fighting them over this for some time now and her tenure will be up in a few weeks. After she is gone, there is a great possibility that the records will be lost forever. Here is a link to the City of Belfast. If you're so inclinded to email the mayor. http://www.cityofbelfast.org/councilcontact.shtm The link for the City Clerk's office, genealogical section is currently under construction. I would hate for those records to be gone. Those people who want them destroyed are thinking that it won't affect anyone or if it does it will only be a select few, they are wrong. It affects everyone and once they are gone, there will be no getting them back. Most Sincerely~ Angelia Hutchins-Thomas Ancestors: Moody, Evans, Annis, Hutchins, Pickering, Littlefield, Thomas ==== MEWALDO Mailing List ==== ==== Waldo County Mailing List ====" ------------------------------------------------------- Please e-mail or write to the Mayor's office and send this on to other mailing lists you're on. Thank you!! -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.5/333 - Release Date: 5/5/2006