ProGen of New England's Favorite Finds

52 Ancestors 52 Weeks Week 7-Outcast In 2019, we did some cosmetic work to the bottom floor of our antique home. We wanted to find a large mirror to hang over the buffet in our dining room. My friend and I went to Crompton Collective in Worcester, Massachusetts in search of an antique mirror. While searching through the various booths in Crompton, we came across a beautiful stained glass window. I fell in love with it on the spot. After a few moments, I decided that I was going to hang this stained glass window above the buffet instead of a mirror. After returning home with my purchase, I contacted the seller about to see if I could find more information about where the window came from. The seller informed me that it was from a Worcester Church that had been dismantled 50 years ago. With that information, I did a search online for churches that were demolished around 1969-1970. I found an article from the Worcester Telegram dated April 29, 2017 written by Mark Sullivan that told the s...

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 6: Social Media My cousin AJ recently sent me this screenshot of someone else's social media post. It made me laugh so much!   Family history research is usually born out of a desire to learn the history of your ancestors. Who they are, where they are from, and what they did in their lives. Many of us family historians become novice and professional genealogists with a desire to share all we have learned with our living family. Sometimes it is very hard to pinpoint what to share with our relatives because over time you can accumulate a great deal of information.   For me, social media has been a fun way to share snippets of family history with living relatives and friends. Social Media has also turned into a way to connect and get to know some newly found family. Many of my social media connections are made up of cousins with shared ancestors going back several generations. Social media has also provided us with a fun way to share a laugh...someti...