Maine Genie

06/10/2021

Puddingtons!

Once I really got digging into to the early Puddingtons (Purringtons, Purintons), I was actually quite surprised to find a fair amount of detail from online sources about the 1600s Puddingtons. There are several American branches but they are mostly New England based but one arm exists in Maryland.....

04/02/2021

From the blog: https://mainegenie.com/puddington-purrington-purington-purinton/
A story of entangled families!

Contrary to that title’s possible meaning, name progression is not the topic of this post. It’s about that family and the Wilsons of Maine. George Puddington and his family including son, John Purrington, came to Maine by 1634 from Devonshire, England. After John’s death, some of his children ...

02/14/2020

The Pejepscot Genealogical Society (PGS) will hold its next meeting in the Morrell Mtg Rm of the Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick, ME on Sun, March 8, 2020 at 2 pm. PGS member Delia Wilson Lunsford will present " One Name Genealogy Projects". This will include how to research all folks in a geographical area with the same surname as a way to find your family's earliest roots. Using online resources and others, she will recommend how to keep track of individuals/names, how to distinguish different families, and how to place name "orphans" into a family tree. Delia has been researching her own Maine family, the Wilsons and the Alexanders, in recent years

01/12/2020

https://mainegenie.com/a-rare-womans-name/

So, yes, I love finding odd names since my name was so very different as I was growing up in the south. I usually just note that some parent got frisky with a name and move on but here’s one for the books – literally, as an author wrote a book in 2018 that highlighted …

12/21/2019

https://mainegenie.com/is-it-legal/

Recently I dug into what is in the public domain and what is not. Please do not use this post as evidence in your quest for such proof as I’m certainly no lawyer. I will borrow heavily from the Stanford University Libraries section on this topic. But here are the facts as I can determine: …

12/21/2019

Permanent Maine Genealogy Resources

With the advent of permanent.org, a non-profit permanent storage website, I saw the opportunity to do something that I’ve been wanting to do for a long time. I have collected nearly 150 digital files over the years, vital records of Maine, state and local histories, and genealogies. Now I can shar...

12/02/2019

Check out the new calendar for genealogical and historical events in Maine. https://mainegenie.com/events is the shortcut.
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10/27/2019

https://mainegenie.com/dr-charles-alexander/

John Alexander of Dresden died in 1840, leaving a will naming his living children and grandchildren. One listed was a Charles Alexander. John had only two sons, both of whom died in 1827 when they were 21 and 23. Though old enough to have children of their own, I have found no marriage record for .....

10/13/2019

https://mainegenie.com/john-alexander-of-dresden-maine/

As I continue my Alexander research, I've finally gotten some "closure" on John and Susannah Reed Alexander of Dresden, Maine. At this moment I do not know if

10/13/2019

https://mainegenie.com/at-the-right-time/

I've been chasing information on John Alexander of Dresden for a number of years now. I kept asking folks about where the meetinghouse burial ground might have

08/25/2019

https://mainegenie.com/connections

Recently I was asked to write up something in honor of a cousin who I've gotten to know in the last few years. I finally got around to writing it up this

08/23/2019

https://mainegenie.com/the-alexander-project/

All about the Alexanders of Maine