Meeting Scheduled for 2023
Jan. 14 – (Zoom) Judy Granger will be our guest and present “Searching for Margaret Cutt in Ancient Piscataquay, and finding Shipwrights, Slave Holders and Plantation Owners across Four Generations”. This study is a piece of inferential genealogy most centrally located in the Kittery, Maine area. Black women are often even more invisible than their husbands, and Margaret Cutt, the wife of Pomp Russell, might just be the exception, at least as to her beginnings, and her meeting and marrying Pomp Russell. This research delves into the possibility of her surname and its connections to some of the oldest, wealthiest families of Kittery, Maine, and Portsmouth, NH, including Cutts. Pepperrells, Brays, Gerrishes, and Elliots, …and the discovery of its connections to Judy’s ancestors.
Feb. 11 – Member meeting
Mar. 11 – TBD Email PresidentHancockCtyGenSoc@gmail.com for more information
Apr. 8–
May 13 –
June 10 –
July 8 –
Aug. 12 –
Sept. 9 –
Oct. 14–
Nov. 11 –
December – No meeting
Past Meeting Schedule for 2022
Jan. 8 – (Zoom)
Feb. 12 – Zoom
Mar. 12 – (Zoom) Presentation about the Bar Harbor/MDI History Trust by Project Coordinator Bruce Jacobson and members Christine Sandberg and Raney Bench
Apr. 9 – Zoom
May 14 – Zoom
June 11 – Zoom
July 9 – Hybrid (Zoom and Riverside Room of the Ellsworth Public Library) Cheryl Willis Patten presented Maine Old Cemetery Association https://moca-me.org/
Aug. 13 – TBD
Sept. 10 – TBD
Oct. 8 – TBD
Nov. 12 – TBD
December – No meeting
Past Schedule for 2018
Jan. 13 – Riverside Room of the Ellsworth Public Library – Election of officers for 2018
Feb. 10 – Riverside Room of the Ellsworth Public Library – Max Brenninkmeyer speaking of
Moses Hammond of Surry
Mar. 10 – Riverside Room of the Ellsworth Public Library – Mary Gibouleau will make a
presentation entitled “Never Give Up”
Apr. 14 – Riverside Room of the Ellsworth Public Library – Wayne Smith will talk about his
research in the Azores Island to discover four generations of his Gaspar family
May 12 – Third floor of the Ellsworth Public Library – Swap & Share
June 9 – Location TBD – Ingathering of Hancock County historical societies, libraries, and
museums; an opportunity to take a county-wide look at all of the organizations that support genealogical research in our part of Maine
July 14 – TBD
Aug. 11 – TBD
Sept. 8 – TBD
Oct. 13 – TBD
Nov. 10 – Riverside Room of the Ellsworth Public Library – Annual Meeting and election of
officers
December – No meeting
I am interested in forming/participating in a class for general genealogy research. I took a class with Wayne Smith probably 20 years ago and loved it. So much has changed in research methods. I’m not a Hancock county descendant so interested in global methods/internet use/record keeping/documentation. I have an entire bookcase of letters/notes/papers/books I inherited from a family member. I would like to get together with people who are also researching family and learn more about how to do this.
There are a few of us who meet each Tuesday at 1:00 at the Bryant E. Moore Community Center in Room 215 on State Street in Ellsworth. We have a workshop facilitated by Terry Meehan who has done extensive work on his family history. He has shared his research journey with us and has introduced ways of organizing research files. We all help each other. There are usually just 2-3 of us here. You are welcome to come