The new issue of TAG, vol. 91, no. 2, is now at press and will mail to all subscribers in 2-3 weeks.
This lead article, by Robert Battle, teases a thread of transatlantic connections uniting Nova Scotia, the Caribbean, and both Northern and Southern colonies.
A focus on Connecticut continues with several pieces touching Connecticut families with links in Massachusetts or Long Island, and a review of a new book on Connecticut vital records.
Vital records are also the theme of an article on a Rhode Island – Maine man whose maternity is revealed only in the index to an original town vital record manuscript.
Following this long delay, TAG has retitled volume 91 to cover the calendar years 2019 and 2020. We expect the remaining two issues of this volume will appear in July and October of this year, and quarterly publication to resume with volume 92 for 2021. Thanks to all subscribers and contributors for your patience! Those who have already renewed for volume 92 will see this reflected on their mailing labels, and will not need to renew again at the end of this year.
Looking forward to it!
Need to get a letter written in Latin translated in full. Parts of it have been done in the last century but not all of it. Its 1st 3 words I did get on my own (an Oh, YES moment). This is for an extended project on the Rev. Edward Bulkeley, father of Concord founder Peter.
For note, wrote the Noble Baggs article for Helen’s WMF1790 project. Waiting to see it print finally. Regards, RMG
If you have a good image of the letter, post it to one or more genealogy groups on social media. People might jump in to help. I just saw a crowd-sourced translation of a medieval Welsh poem happen in real time on Facebook the other day. — Nat Taylor
Thanks, Nat. I only have an Instagram account because my daughter outlined the how-to do it step-by=step! So, just how would I go about accessing such a group? Your advice on this is very much appreciated.
So far, I’ve found only one other Edward Bulkeley letter. Yale has it, accompanied by a complete translation, which was done for a short notice about the collection it is part of for the Beinecke journal. Beyond the very first sentence in the one I need translated, there is no further genealogical information in either one, but much discussion of George Buchanan and how to get published by the London printers, for instance. Other Bulkeley letters exist in the archives of Shrewsbury, U.K. (focused on religious matters); the possibility is strong that more may be as in Cambridge University archives, or at least his college. I am writing Shrewsbury as I have specific citations in recent publications. As to Cambridge, I’ve no idea how to proceed.
My goal is to do a complete rewrite of Jacobus’ account of EB1’s career and family that appears in The Bulkeley Genealogy; and, if I can, get an entry for him into the new DNB, given his role in “editing” the 1610 edition of Foxe’s “Actes and Monuments”. The loss of the Bulkeley family papers of 1540-1692 on this side of the ocean between 1659 and 1692 is a great sadness and makes research on Concord, Massachusetts (1635-1734) a difficulty. But I am hobbling on.
Regards, Robert M. Gerrity
FYI, re bona fides: I’m the author of “Noble Baggs of Belchertown” in the latest “Western Massachusetts Families in 1790”. Helen again makes me look good.
Comments to posts on the TAG website are not the place for that–you want to crowd-source the process. I suggest posting a query, with a link to the image (which I think you must post elsewhere), in the google group “soc.genealogy.medieval”: though if it’s later than mid-sixteenth century some of the “medieval” readers there will ignore it.
Okay. Such things are unknowns to me. Best, RMG