Welcome to the history of my dead relatives.

The internet has become a great aid in locating genealogical information. My father's ancestor emigrated from England to New England in 1629. A great deal of information about Thomas Minor (1608 - 1690) and his descendants is available. My mother's parents immigrated to the Boston from Latvia in 1907 and 1911 and searching out their ancestors has been much more difficult. Below are links that I have found useful.

My paternal gggrandparents are:

• Forum for Amy Ann CROCKER, whose immigrant ancestor was Thomas Crocker (#1920, ~1633 - 1716) of New London, CT
• Forum for Ezra DART, whose immigrant ancestor was Richard Darte (#192, ~1635 - 1724) of New London, CT
• Forum for John FAULKNER, who is a descendant of Samuel Faulkner (#224, ~170x - ~1778) of Bristol, MA & Canterbury, CT
• (eForum, oForum) Jared S MINER, whose immigrant ancestor was Thomas Miner/Minor (#2048, 1608 - 1690).
• Forum for Eunice G NEWBURY, who is a descendant of John Newbury (#104, 1686 - 1727+) of Groton, CT
• Forum for Harriet Newell PIKE, who is a descendant of Deacon Joseph R Pike (#92, 1740 - 1801) of Newport, RI
• Forum for Sarah Sherman RATHBUN, whose immigrant ancestor was John Rathbun (#576, 1629 - 1702) of Block Island, RI
• Forum for John Aldrick TUCKER, who is a descendant of Morris Tucker (#640, 1642 - 1711) and Elizabeth Gill of Salisbury, MA

Other paternal ancestors are:

• Forum for James Adams (#608, ~1630-1707) of Westerly, RI who is ancestor of Martha Taylor ADAMS, mother of Sarah Rathbun.
• Forum for John Greene (#432, 1620 - 1708) of Providence, RI who is immigrant ancestor of Welthan GREEN, mother of Eunice Newbury.
• Forum for Thomas Howard (#992, 164x-1700) of Enfield, CT who is ancestor of Nancy HOWARD, mother of Amy Crocker.
• Forum for Nicholas Snow (#544, 1600 - 1676) of Eastham, MA who is immigrant ancestor of Elenora Young SNOW, mother of Jared S Miner.
• Forum and DNA for Theophilius Whaley (#336, 1616-1720) of VA and RI who is immigrant ancestor of Sarah WHALEY, wife of Joshua A Tucker, Jr.
• Forum for John Wheeler (#400, ~1640-1691) of New London, CT who is immigrant ancestor of Sally WHEELER, mother of Ezra Dart.
• Forum for Henry Brooks (#4008, 1591-1683) of Woburn, MA who is immigrant ancestor of Lucy BROOKS, wife of Stephen Crocker.
• Forum for Elder John Crandall (#1224, 1617-1676) of Newport and Westerly, RI who is immigrant ancestor of Mary CRANDALL, wife of Joseph Adams.

My maternal history is largely unknown. It begins and ends with the immigration ( Latvians in America) of my grandparents from Riga, Latvia to Boston, MA in April 1907 and May 1911. Latvian genealogy on the net is still relatively undeveloped, but there is a forum and an overview of the Latvian State Archives which has an English site. Ancestry has a Latvian message board and also one for Riga inquiries There is also a short list of sites at FEEFHS, Genealogy.com's index, Cyndi's Baltic list, WorldGenWeb. The embassy can be interesting as is the Jewish SIG which has a RIGA page, the news, and Amara's page.

My favorite genealogical links are:

• Map of given address: Mapquest Yahoo Google
• Family History Center locations and general information and ON-LINE DATABASE.
• The Roots-Web surname list, the mailing lists (by IP) (MINER MINOR) and mailing list archives, Miner-L archieves, Minor-L archieves, the website index, the GEDCOMs, or the surname index. Hosts ROOTSLINK web site index.
• Rootsweb cemetery registry.
• Ancestry-Rootsweb message boards
• Genealogical Dictionary by James Savage A-C D-J K-R R-Z
• Social Security Death Index at Roots (SSDI at Ftree) can be searched on-line. Enter a surname and get birth dates, death dates and locations.
• USA GenWeb Project ( NY, CT, MA, RI )
  A center for genealogical research for every county in the United States. There is a searchable archive.
• 1790 USA Census
• CT Town records
• Free translations at Babelfish
• RI headstone index and cemetery index
• Ellis Island passenger search from 1892 to 1924.
• Telephone Directory Service in USA and also at AnyWho and in Canada and also at Canada 411 will find someone's address using their name. DNS Reverse Lookup will get Domain name from IP Address. Also, try Host Name from IP address.and it does Host Name to IP too. Reverse lookup will find a person from a phone number or an e-mail address.
• Zip code to city.
• Search engines: AllTheWeb, AltaVista, HotBot, Excite, Google, Yahoo, Webcrawler, Northern Light
• Useful sites: DearMyrtle, Cyndi's Links, Gen Circles, Ancestry, and FTM Online.
• NEHGS library gives references in which others have done the work for you!

My dead ends are:

• 22 Harriet Newell Pike's (3 Nov 1831or2 Newport, RI - 25 Jun 1909) father
• 68 Desire (Dotie) West's parents ca 172x Eastham, MA
• 84 Thomasina Purchase's parents ca 1735 Newport, RI
• 86 Mary Munday's parents 174x near South Kingstown, RI
• 92 Elizabeth Dedrick's parents ca 174x Newport, RI
• 94 Mary Rounds' parents ?Newport?, RI
• 24 Sally Wheeler's parents ca 176x New London, CT
• 104 John Newbury's origins ca 1675 ?England
• 224 Samuel Faulkner's wife, Sabra _?_, m. ca 1725/6 Norwich, CT
• 118 John Jeffords m 6 Sep 1757 Pomfret, CT with Hannah Williams; all parents unknown
• 244 Comfort Brooks' wife, Hannah _?_, m. ca 1740 New London, CT area. Possibly Daniels.
• 120 Stephen Crocker's wife born ca 175x New London, CT area
• 62 John Howard's wife, Amy _?_, born ca 177x New London, CT area

Updated 1 January 2009.