I hope all of you have followed through on the ACE credit registry.  I was able to get my transcript and am hoping to add to these credits this summer or next with courses at BU.  This post is an update to my November 2012 trip to Worcester and Palmer Massachusetts graveyards.  I met with two wonderfully informative clerks at St. John's Cemetery in Worcester who told me of a practice of reusing gravesites for current and future burials as long as the family holds the deed to those gravesites.  I guess New England is running out of room and if your ancestors have been buried long enough it is possible for you to be buried on the same site which means we must be vigilant with graveyard databases and hope the future will hold all the occupants for our genealogical searches.  The disappointment for me here at St. John's Cemetery was that the grave stones were no longer in place for my ancestors.  I need to contact the clerks and ask if there ever was an attempt at transcription or imaging of grave stones that were deteriorating or removed.  The ground is clear; no other markers are there so the deed is still owned by someone in the Corey line who may not know that this is theirs to resurrect or occupy, sotospeak.  Well, after this disappointment I hopped back in my rental car and drove to Palmer where I got lost trying to find the ancient Old Palmer Center Cemetery which is reputed to be haunted.  Since the daylight was fading I needed to get there post haste so had to stop several times to locate myself with my iPhone GPS.  I eventually did find the cemetery and raced from stone to stone to locate John Corey.  I had my can of shave cream to use to spray on his tombstone and then with a straight edge ruler go across the stone surface wiping off excess foam revealing the almost faded letters and numbers beneath.  This process works but I need to go back to Palmer in a season with more daylight to triangulate to John Corey's tombstone by locating the more readable stones before and after his in the early 1900 transcriptions done by a fellow who feared all records would be lost from these ancient tombstones.  I believe he misread a "1" for a "4" making 3-year-old John Corey buried in 1816 just a few short years after the birth of his mother, Nancy.  Since that is unlikely the more accurate transcription should be 1846.  After returning the car to the rental agency they dropped me off at the Worcester Union train station which is a monumental building full of grandeur.  I took the Framingham commuter back to Back Bay and ended my day with dinner in the Eastern Standard.  I'll be doing this again in summer so if anyone wants to join me, feel welcome.

TIARA meeting

For those with an interest in Irish genealogy, the next meeting of the Irish Ancestral Research Association (TIARA) will be held on Saturday, December 8, at 1:30 PM at the Cary Memorial Library in Lexington. Dick Eastman will give a presentation on genealogy apps for mobile devices. For additional information please visit the Meetings page of the TIARA website at: http://tiara.ie/meet.php.

B.U. Genealogical Research Alums November Meeting

November's alumni meeting will be held at NEHGS this Saturday, November 17, at 9:00 A.M. with lunch to follow. For those interested in attending the meeting please email Liz Loveland. For those interested in attending lunch please email Joan Angelosanto. Hope to see you there!

Researching Mayflower Lines

For those with an interest in researching Mayflower lines and in preparing an application to accept lineage from a Mayflower passenger, I prepared a brief presentation at Saturday's monthly alumni meeting at NEHGS. The handout from the presentation can be viewed by clicking here. I hope that you will find the information in the handout useful, and please let me know if there is any information you would like me to add to the handout for reference.

Cemetery Trip to Worcester and Palmer

I just figured out how to make a new post so maybe we can open up a new thread concerning my upcoming trip to Boston 7 November to 10 November to visit two cemeteries, one in Worcester and one in Palmer.  The one in Palmer is considered haunted so if any of you are in the mind to accompany me through this cemetery, feel welcomed ;-)  I need to correct what I believe to be a faulty transcription of a gravestone in the Old Palmer Center Cemetery.  Once I establish that it was 1846 and not 1816 for John Corey's death year I will be able to cite the correction NEHGS will be asked to submit to its vital records of Palmer.  The St. John's Cemetery in Worcester will be easier to navigate since I got a map of the location of the two gravestones I need to document and photograph for submission to Find A Grave website.  There is also, I believe, a Jewish cemetery adjacent to St. John's that Linda may want to add to her itinerary for the Jewish genealogical conference next August.

BU Genealogical Research Alums September Meeting

It is good to be in the blog at last.  I see there is a New Hampshire Genealogy meeting coming up but alas I won't be in New England then.  I am coming to Boston September 28th to October 1st for the Irish Study Group and the BU Genealogical Research Program Alums meeting at the NEHGS.
I hope some of you will be coming to the meetings on Saturday.  I'm back into John Corey and now adding my husband's John M. Daly search through Pennsylvania to Ohio.  At the last meeting August 25th or so I presented 2 brick walls and Marti and Gloria and Liz were very helpful so I've been able to move a bit further on the Corey front.  Please try to come; I miss you all. AND we have a great long lunch for networking.

New Hampshire Society of Genealogists Fall Meeting

The New Hampshire Society of Genealogists is holding their fall meeting at the Holiday Inn in Concord on Saturday, October 6, from 10:00 A.M. to 2:30 P.M. The cost of the meeting is $15.00 for members and $20.00 for non-members. For more information about the event please visit http://nhsog.org/nhsog/mtgs/mtg_Oct_12.htm. For more information about the society visit their home page at http://nhsog.org.