NERGC virtual conference

NERGC Virtual Conference; April 1 to May 31, 2021; Registration now open; conference program available; details at NERGC.ORG details for volunteers later;

NERGC virtual conferenceNERGC Virtual Conference; April 1 to May 31, 2021; Registration now open; conference program available; details at NERGC.ORG details for volunteers later;

Finished a week of Salt Lake Institute last night.

It is an EXCELLENT book. He is the author of the Great Influenza too about the 1918 pandemic and should be read by everyone.

I will add them to my to be read list!

Could someone give us the name of the Roger Williams book again... it went by too fast

I am looking for information about the 1940 election in Rhode Island. If anyone has any tips or leads, I would be interested.

Can you share the information for the funeral directory?

Also The Frist American Founder: Roger William and Freedom of conscience by alan E Johnson

thank you Dan

Just want to share that in Bristol we are working on updating our Family Files and we are learning so much. We are trying to build the family trees of the towns founders. But the early history of the founding fathers of Bristol and what happened to their families has been fascinating.

It was “Roger William and Creation of the American Soul” by John Barry (2012)

Humprey Atherton from Mass sold land he did not have title to, to the French Huguenot who did not stay long

I was born and raised in RI but live in SC now (for almost 18 years) but I can’t tell you how much I LOVE hearing your RI accents. Makes me happy.

Hello all!

I love rascals too and named my golden doople Rascal. She lives up to her name!

Check out Providence Public Library - they have been releasing

Digitalized newspapers

Where would you find birth records for someone born in Kent for 1767

Greetings from Reston, VA

Hello to everyone from the Albany area in NYS!

I don’t know if they have digitized yet, but when I lived on Capitol Hill in DC in the early 1980s, the Library of Congress had a copy of every daily newspaper published in the U.S. The Jefferson building behind the main LOC housed them. I’m not sure how far back they went then or if they made it a digital project since, but it might be worth checking.

Hi from Chicago. Snow storm is coming!

EP in 1862

Im a former townie

Do Masonic Halls hold records on members other than what has been digitized in the online records?

Thank you, everyone, for the information on the newspapers!

The "Me" above is Myrna Barber. Sorry, I didn't realize it would come up that way unless I specified!

Susan if you don't have Genealogy Bank, I can do a lookup for you.

I have a 7th Day Baptist who married an Episcopalian... could find the marriage in Westerly, but crossed the border to Stonington, CT and there they were... about 9 months before the first child was born

My Barber great-grandparents were that same "mix"...he was an SDB, she was an Episcopalian; however, they were married in the Christ Church Westerly parsonage in Westerly. MJB

There were Braytons in Rehoboth and Swansea earlier.

Any relation to GB Brayton?

Christ Church, Westerly was her church, but I suspect her family didn't approve

The GB Brayton in question was a mechanical engineer who was responsible for creation of the “Brayton cycle” engine.

I don't know about G. B. Brayton. Have you traced his family at all? Or are you more interested just in the man himself? He sounds interesting. Good luck

Thank you! I am more interested in the man himself, but I am interested in the connection between GBB and the Brayton family of EG

What is EG Church? I'm not from RI

East Greenwich, RI

My great-great-grandfather, Warren Dawley (1851 - 1940), was a Six-Principle Baptist minister.

Thank you, Cherry!

Thank you Cherry. Very interesting.

Thank you Cherry!

Hi Crandall cousins!

Thank you. I am descended from the Gortons of Rhode Island. This has been very interesting.

Cherry, what a wonderful example of respect and affection as you treated Elder Gorton. Interesting.

Hi Ann Wilkerson and Mary Millet, another Crandall here from Grand Rapids, MI

cant unmute but a google search lists 24 different 'flavors' of Baptists

Lovely presentation, Cherry Bamberg. Thank you.

Remember Elder Brewster was the defacto religious head of the puritan church in Plymouth since minster John Robinson elected to stay in Holland

Great talk Cherry. Very interesting.

will the talk be available

Thank you, Cherry. I'm waiting for you next book ?!

To the point of African-Americans in the Revolutionary War, there is a record in "Records of the Colony of Rhode Island..." in 1783. stating John Barber was to be paid 120 pounds for his slave Ellick who had "enlisted in Col. Greene's Regiment." MJB

I bought the Crandall reader. It is great to have so much info in one cover.

Thank you to Cherry for a wonderful presentation. I'm from New York with family in Rhode Island (Sheldons) - I appreciate the introduction. Pat

Agreed....never enough books

I had to leave the meeting for a short time when you were describing the 5 principles and sheep comparison. The word Profitable may have been used not to mean for monetary reasons but the meaning may have been "benefit". profitable used to be used to mean benefit.: to profit from; to benefit from.

Can we turn our cameras on to chat?

Great talk! thank you

I appreciate the opportunity to attend these meetings from Ohio. MY EG families are Shippee and Spencer.

Thank you Cherry. It was a fascinating talk and done on such short notice!

FYI to anyone with Seventh-Day Baptists in your heritage...I have a life membership in what used to be their Historical Society and can access the Sabbath Recorder from its inception in 1844 to, I think, 2017. Will be happy to do "lookups." My information should be on RIGS member's page.

NERGC is using an online site for NERGC volunteers:https://www.signupgenius.com/go/904094EADAE29A0FE3-nergc

SLIG was great! I was at a class 2 weeks ago. I took Advanced Genealogical Methods with Paul Graham.

Pimiento cheese is a staple of southern food and we can buy it here in New England!

Hello Cousin!

Where would bonesetters come in the "spectrum?" There was a Sweet family in South Kingstown who were famous as bonesetters. MJB, Menands

my g g grandfather George Burton, East Greenwich received his Harvard medical degree in 1858. It only required one year and apparently no undergraduate degree was required.

Was diptheria prevalent in Colonial times?

How did they come up with these recipes? Did they actually try them and see that they worked?

I don't know about in colonial times, but I read about two families in Hopkinton who lost their entire families to that disease...I think in the 1860s. MJB, Menands, NY

So many questions....not sure where to begin.

Sorry...that last wasn't too clear. I meant two COUPLES who lost their entire families to diphtheria. MJB, Menands, NY

I cannot unmute

can’t unmute

What is the earliest book on medicinal recipes?

Anyone is welcome to turn their camera on and unmute themselvees

I don't have a camera, and don't know if I can "unmute." MJB

Chewing willow bark was an early, native “aspirin”

Great presentations. I have to leave my daughter’s house now to make it home before the snow. Have a great day, y’all.

Witch hazel is good for itching.

Hives

It was prescribed to me by my Dr.

Witch Hazel mfg by Dickinson in CT. They are on my mothers side.

Balm of Gilead was my Aunt Hat’s go to.

I had a sever case and they didn’t know why. I was in the er 3 times till they came up with the right combo of meds.

Great talk. Loved it. Bye

Good Zoom meeting.

Lori I would love to read your thesis