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What route one’s roots?

I am reminded of ancestral roots in the strangest ways.

Court histories may shed light on ancestry

Today we think we live in a litigious society where lawsuits are filed seemingly every minute of the workday. This is nothing new. Genealogists may not realize just how litigious our ancestors were.

E.A. Williams cartoon — Aptil 11, 2018

E.A. Williams cartoon for April 11, 2018

E.A. Williams cartoon — April 4, 2018

E.A. Williams cartoon for April 4, 2018.

Refuge is a local gem

It is time to get to know us if you don’t already. We get perturbed when after 20 years in existence one of our Friends’ group members mentions the refuge to someone and the response is, “What refuge?”

Why can’t English announcers learn to pronounce French names?

We had an interesting discussion the other day about how some English speakers still massacre some French names, even after we've been in Maine since before there was a Maine.

The ‘weather people’ respond

Well, this is certainly a first. In 98 columns I've not had to correct another columnist. Having already done so privately, I find it necessary to do so publicly, so that those who read the column "Bug Guts & Beauty" in the March 14th edition of the Star Herald would get the straight dope.

E.A. Williams cartoon — March 28, 2018

E.A. Williams cartoon for March 28, 2018

Listen and learn from noted Maine genealogists

Roxanne Moore Saucier, who authored the genealogical column “Family Ties” in the Bangor Daily News for so many years, once famously referred to Joe Anderson as the “bee’s knees.”

Time for an ice fishing adventure

Ice fishing can be one of the highlights of a Maine winter. If the fishing takes place in the Allagash Wilderness Waterway (AWW), it is more like an ice fishing adventure.

E.A. Williams cartoon — March 21, 2018

Astonishing snow squalls

Eleven days ago, on the 10th of March, an incredibly intense snow squall band developed in northeast Aroostook County, and delivered snow squall totals the likes of which I have not seen in my 11-plus years in the County.

The telling of a North American story

It’s time to start telling North American stories.

E. A. Williams Cartoon — March 14, 2018

E. A. Williams Cartoon for the week of March 4, 2018

Missing ancestors are not so unusual

Have you a relative or ancestor who disappeared and was never heard from again?

E.A. Williams Cartoon — March 7, 2018

E.A. Williams cartoon for March 7, 2018.

Tastes change

Ont parlais l'autre jour des chôses que nos parents pi grandparents mangais que nous autres ont mangerais quissement jamais d'la vie

Finding our immigrant story

Immigration has long been a hot-button issue in this country politically as each generation wished to prohibit others from emigrating here.

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