Discussion Forum of the Upper St.John River Valley website / Forum de discussion du site web de la Vallée Supérieure de la Rivière St-Jean

Here is a chapter in a book about settlement in the St. John River valley. I scanned it quickly and it seems to be very general history without much mention of any names of individuals. Still there may be some info of value in it.

http://archive.org/stream/cihm_00811#page/169/mode/2up

The link in the above message is no longer valid. Here is the new link.

http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/ ... rand+Isle/

I just discovered this book in the archives mentioned in my previous post. The Acadians of Madwaska, Maine (1902) http://archive.org/details/acadiansofmadawa00colluoft You can read it online in the original scanned format, or get it in a number of other formats including PDF and Kindle. I just downl...

I just discovered this book on Amazon: Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick Published in 1851, author John S. Springer It is available for free ...

Chymullins,

OK. I would be interested in details about Thomas Cote and Marie Ann Yarrington and their children. Would you consider emailing this to me?

Source references would be very helpful also.

Regards,
James

Chymullins, Welcome to the forum. I'm sorry but I have no information on Thomas Cote. I had no spouse name for Mary Yarrington (which I assume is your Marie Ann). I do have a Marie Metaile Yarrington m. Geoge Wiles. I suppose this could be your Marie--perhaps she was married twice. Her first child w...

I have been informed that Maine already has a "Researcher Indentification Card." It is required to get into the vital records achives in Agusta, ME. You just have to fill out a simple form and pay a fee to get it. There are no qualifications. I do wonder if someone can get this card withou...

Here is the full text of the new law. HP1271, LD 1781, item 1, 124th Maine State Legislature An Act To Allow Electronic Filing of Vital Records and Closing of Records To Guard against Fraud and Make Other Changes to the Vital Records Laws http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/display_ps.asp?sn...

Sadly, the bill was signed into law on April 2, 2010. www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=22811 There is no info on what one has to do to get a "researcher card." I could not find any info on when it goes into effect. I assume that means the the online record lookups will be taken of...

Rich,

Romain Charette (Charest) and Modeste Daigle, parents of Adeline Daigle

Hmm, wouldn't Adeline's surname be Charette not Daigle if Daigle was her mother's maiden name?

Regards,
James

Reno,

I found a Rene son of Joseph on Rootsweb here:

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin ... &id=I36347

Joseph has a brother named William.

The birthdate of Rene is 1911 which doesn't match with your date of 1920 but it is close.

Regards,
James

Have you tried the Maine Marriage Archives?

http://portalx.bisoex.state.me.us/pls/a ... earch_form

James

Have you seen this?

Steamers on the Upper St. John

http://www.cchs-nb.ca/html/Steamers.html

Edgar, You will find some information here: http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=Search&includedb=&lang=en&ti=&surname=Jalbert&stype=Exact&given=Francois&bplace=&byear=&brange=0&dplace=&dyear=&drange=0&mplace=&myear=&mrange=0&fathe...

I have just discovered a website that has over 370,000 older books scanned and online for free. There is a multi-volume set of books on the history of Maine and I'm sure many others that may be of interest. www.archive.org Or here is a link to a search for "Maine" http://www.archive.org/se...