7 years ago Births at Mayo Regional Hospital The following births were recorded recently at Mayo Regional Hospital:
7 years ago Maps can reveal family treasure Maps are a great resource for genealogists. There are many types of maps, including digital ones, but the most popular is probably the cadastral map.
7 years ago Births at Mayo Regional Hospital The following births were recorded recently at Mayo Regional Hospital:
7 years ago Mayo Regional Hospital’s Tracy Hibbard Kasprzak Cancer Treatment Center dedication ceremony set for Sept. 23 The public is invited to the Tracy Hibbard Kasprzak Cancer Treatment Center dedication ceremony and open house from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Sept. 23 at Mayo Regional Hospital. There will be a short dedication, ribbon cutting and dignitary remarks, followed by tours of the center and light refreshments.
7 years ago 50 years with Delta Kappa Gamma Judy Gilbert, president of the Omicron Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma Society International -- a professional honorary society of leading women educators -- recently presented Miss Sarah Chipman with the society's 50-year membership pin.
7 years ago Don’t neglect those deeds Most genealogists would rather have a root canal (or as one told me, give birth in a store window) than spend an afternoon at the Registry of Deeds tracking metes and bounds. But deeds are so much more than how many paces beyond the “stump” to go before hitting the boundary of the family’s land. They can establish family ties and provide dates of death and sometimes details not to be found in other sources.
7 years ago Birth at Mayo Regional Hospital The following birth was recorded recently at Mayo Regional Hospital:
7 years ago LDS Church will end its microfilm service The Church of Latter-Day Saints has announced that huge changes are about to happen with their genealogical microfilm collections and the way they can be viewed by researchers.
7 years ago Births at Mayo Regional Hospital The following births were recorded recently at Mayo Regional Hospital in Dover-Foxcroft:
7 years ago Family Searcher — ‘Do unto others’ in family research In my last column, I discussed the difficulties that can arise when a genealogist must make an ethical decision whether to reveal material that might embarrass or hurt someone else.
7 years ago Keeping family skeletons in the closet Genealogists have an unwritten code of ethics. While we should seek the truth about our family lines without flinching, we also have an implicit obligation to respect others’ privacy and not cause deliberate hurt needlessly by revealing secrets.
7 years ago Skeleton Crew learns about age-related hearing loss Chris Clukey, certified audiologist of Dover Audiology, spoke about age-related hearing loss at the Abbott Memorial Library's Skeleton Crew meeting in Dexter earlier in the month.
7 years ago Births at Mayo Regional Hospital The following births were recorded recently at Mayo Regional Hospital in Dover-Foxcroft:
7 years ago A genealogist’s best friend A genealogist ‘s best friend is a good librarian. And while many of us automatically head to larger libraries such as the Maine State Library when we think of researching, there are valuable resources for the family researchers in smaller, local libraries in the town where your ancestors lived. The guide to these treasures is the local librarian.
7 years ago Adoption laws more humane One of the most heartbreaking things I did was to deny an adopted man the names of his birth parents.
8 years ago How to cope with age-related hearing loss As part of Better Speech and Hearing Month, certified audiologist Chris Clukey, MA, CCC-A, of Dover Audiology, will speak about age-related hearing loss, its causes and treatments, as well as other kinds of hearing loss experienced by older adults, at the Abbott Memorial Library in Dexter on Thursday, May 11 at 1 p.m.