Don't you just love those romantic old names some of our ancestorshave? If I were from the South, I'd just have to have a Beauregard inmy family tree.
How about General George Custer Pums? And his consort Lady PepperFrancis? They are the honest-to-goodness great-grandparents of alittle fella born Jan. 10, 2003, named Holyoke's Domino Pudge.
Pudge, as you might guess, is a dog - a black-and-white EnglishSpringer Spaniel, to be exact. His parents were Stonehaus Domino,also black and white; and Ms. Nichole of Babbs, who's listed as liverand white on Pudge's certified pedigree.
That's right, certified, as in 'The Seal of The American KennelClub affixed hereto certifies that this pedigree was compiled fromofficial Stud Book records on January 17, 2004.'
You might guess from reading the Bangor Daily News sports pagesthat Holyoke's Domino Pudge would belong to outdoor writer JohnHolyoke, and you'd be right.
With a surname like Holyoke, John has his own pedigree going backseveral generations to Edward Holyoke, who came to Lynn, Mass., in1636 or so from Tamworth, England.
John's dad is Vaughn Holyoke, and from there the line goes throughJohn Harris Holyoke, John William Holyoke, Charles Holyoke, JohnHolyoke (I think) and the rest of the clan.
Suffice it to say the Holyokes are longtime Brewer people, andthere's even a Holyoke Street right off North Main Street. That'swhat you call having a pedigree as good as your dog's.
The February 2004 issue of Family Chronicle: The Magazine forFamilies Researching their Roots, has an interesting article, ErikaDreifus' 'French Connections: Twenty-One Homes for Franco-AmericanHeritage.'
One of the sites mentioned is Robert Chenard's The FrenchConnection, found at http://users.adelphia.net/~frenchcx/
We've mentioned this site before, but it has grown since last Ilooked at it. Its 87 Web pages are the equivalent of 500 typed pagesof material, and well worth the look if you have Franco-Americanancestry.
The home page is divided into categories: books, cemeteries,census and other civil records, church records, genealogy, historyand culture such as the King's Daughters, Internet links and others.
Other familiar sites referenced in the magazine article include:
. Franco-American Studies at the University of Maine,www.umaine.edu/francoamericanstudies
. Maine's French Communities, www.francomaine.org
. American-Canadian Genealogical Society, www.acgs.org
We have a correction on the genealogy workshop of the BrooklinKeeping Society. It will be held 1-4 p.m. Feb. 12, not the 10th, andit's at the society headquarters, the Little Red Schoolhouse.
The Wellington Historical Society meets at 1:30 p.m. the secondWednesday of the month (Feb. 11) at the home of Marc and DoloresPomerleau on Huff's Corner Road. All are welcome. The 2004 Wellingtoncalendar is $7. Membership is $5 a year, or $9 with The WellingtonCrier. For information, call 683-2713, or e-mail whs@tds.net.
The Aroostook County Genealogical Society will hold its nextmeeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 10, in the Caribou Room at CaribouPublic Library. Paul Flick will talk about personalizing yourgenealogy. Also, if you have queries or material to donate, write tothe society at P.O. Box 142, Caribou 04736-0142.
Norma Stewart, executive director of 'St. Croix - 2004,' will givea talk about the coming 400th anniversary of Samuel de Champlain'ssettlement on St. Croix Island at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 11, at theLubec Memorial Library. The program is part of the lecture series ofthe Trescott Historical Society and Social Club. Refreshments will beserved, and all are welcome.
3250. HODNETT- DEERING-COLLIER-LESURE. Seeking info anddescendants of these families who lived in area of Orient, Weston andDanforth. Also Aroostook families Brackett, Brannen, Butterfield,Ellis, Fifield, Foss, Gellerson, Gerow, Gilpatrick, Golding, Harding,Irish, Kinney, Lambert, Lee, Maxell, Moody, Neal, Peters, Rollins,Russell, Springer, Williams and Van Wart. I am happy to share myinformation with others in exchange for new leads. Allan L. Hodnett,S84 W17573 Woods Road, Muskego, WI 53150; or Ahodnett@wi.rr.com.
Send genealogy queries to Family Ties, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box1329, Bangor, ME 04402; or send e-mail tofamilyti@bangordailynews.net.
