ROLANDRHOADES.COM

Personal Website of Roland Rhoades
Genealogist, Family Historian, and Time Traveler

Specializing in Maine Families

Gorham Maine - seeker@maine.rr.com

last update 16 April 2024   

FAMILY HISTORY INDEX

of My Photos, Genealogies, Cemeteries, & Links

My Fuller Brush Closeout products page

 MY FULLER BRUSH CAT

CEMETERY LISTINGS around Maine
 

MY ANTIQUES PAGE

12/31/09 - I am now on Facebook

My PORCELAIN COLLECTOR PLATES Collection For Sale

 MY GENEALOGY BOOKS 4 SALE see below

Roland's Inspirational  MOTIVATIONAL MOMENTS

CALENDARS of 1885 - 2085  PDF    NEW Sept 2022

An old newspaper or obit says your ancestor died last Thursday.  OK, what was the date?  Look it up in these calendars.

THRIFTY?  You saved an old or historical calendar that you really liked.  When would it be usable again?  (2023 calendar is the same as 2017, 2006, 1995, 1989, 1978 etc.)

4TH COUSIN 3 TIMES REMOVED?

MY GGGG-GRANDFATHER IS YOUR GGG-GRANDFATHER. What are we?

COUSINS CHART 

LEAVITT Families links and pages
Links to webpages, genealogies, records, photos, gravestones
compiling every descendant of John Leavitt of Hingham MA 1630s
and Thomas Leavitt of Hampton NH 1630s
with MANY descendants in Maine

M - Roland's LEAVITT FAMILY of Montville 1800-1829, Lincoln, Aroostook, Parkman, and Cambridge Maine 1843-, and points beyond - click above for Roland's Leavitt webpage of genealogy and photos

M - WALLS-Leavitt Family of Belfast, Montville, Searsmont, ... 1800-  click above for Roland's Leavitt webpage of genealogy and photos

My RHOADES-PEAVEY  Y-DNA OOPS. Analysis page
 

COPYRIGHT
I freely share my genealogy research, but ask that you NOT upload to any website that in turn assumes that they have publishing rights. Thanks.

CAMBRIDGE MAINE webpage 1834-2009  175 years & Cemeteries  5/2014 update
 

 P  IN MEMORIAM
 MARION BOUDWAY RHOADES 1911-2008

P BOARDWAY-Boudway-Boadway-Budway Family of Orono ME 1852- 
Now with it's own webpages with photos 12/2022 update with  printout on John Boudway page

P  MY SWEDEN FAMILIES

My PETTERSSON & GROSS & BORJESSON families of Marstrand  & Goteborg Sweden

 NEW webpage with photos Feb 2014; 6/2019 update

P FLAGG Family of Northport & Belmont ME 1800-  major update 9/2023

P BRIGGS Family of Northport & Belmont ME 1800-  3/2018 update

P PEAVEY Family of NH & MAINE 1800-  11/2020 20p; 4/2021 update  25p

P My HALLOWELL Family of Kennebec Co Maine 1780-  updated 9/2023

P FRENCH Family of Belfast Maine 1790-  updated 9/2023

M STINNEFORD FAMILY of Wells ME 1800-  7/2021 update 60p

M My Capt HUGH MASON Family to North Yarmouth Maine by 1730      8 gen - updated 11/2020  25p

M MORGRAGE-MORGRIDGE Family of Kittery ME 1600s    5/2023 update is 82p. Lots more to input, but check it out.

M ROBERTSON FAMILY of Charlotte Co NB & Maine  5/2022 update

M SAFFORD Family of Dexter ME 1800, 10 gen, Isaac Allerton descendants 54p  May 2018 update.

RHOADES Family of Winslow, Troy, Gardiner ME  1/2023 update

 ROBERT & MARY REYNOLDS of Boston 1630, to Maine   3/2018

And my wife's families: 

HARRIS & BUCKNAM Family of Groveton NH - 4/2024 update
OAKES Family of Nova Scotia - 12/2017 major update, more coming
POIRIER Family of PEI to Ipswich MA - 7/2019 update

A Memorial to Our Little Boy
GRISWOLD POIRIER 1996-2009
 

Photos, Cemeteries of above families coming soon. See Cemetery listings above.

   I have retired as the volunteer Publications Sales Manager for
      THE MAINE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY 
 MAINE VITAL RECORDS & 1790 CENSUS BOOKS &
  Large Member savings. Just Join MGS.     

I still have The Maine Genealogist back issues 1987-2022 - List here  
 

History & Listing of Universalist & Unitarian Ministers in Maine
Universalism was once Maine's largest denomination in the 1800s, with a church in nearly every town, based on their good news of Universal Salvation, and God was too good to create a hell for his children (except for what they create themselves). Then other churches stopped preaching the bad news of hellfire and damnation, and took up the Universalist message. Take note of ministers on old marriage records and see what churches your ancestors belonged to.  9/2022 update is now over 800.

FREE Obituaries & Obituary Indexes in New England

IDENTITY SAFETY for Genealogists

*Dick Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter

GENEALOGY BOOKS FOR SALE  priced to sell:

WEEDING OUT MY GENEALOGY BOOKSHELVES, 1/1/2023:

Roland Rhoades, Gorham ME  seeker@maine.rr.com    * = Mint or Excellent condition

*1.  "The Main Beam - An Informal History of Documented Vessels Built at Rockland, Maine 1795-2005", Bertram G Snow autographed, Dec 2005, "#457 of a limited edition of 1000 copies" 550p 8.5x11 hdc. $15.

2. "Length & Breadth of Maine", Attwood, 1977 printing $3.

3. "New Hampshire Backroads", 1989, 104 color pages 8.5x11  & "Backroads of New England" Earl Thollander 1982 version 224p 8.5x11. Both / $8.

4. “15^th Annual Report of the Secretary of the Maine Board of Agriculture for 1870”  446pp  One interesting 1870 report is  “Effects of Destruction of Forests”  $3.

5. “The Crew & Passenger Lists of the Seven Acadian Expeditions of 1785” by Milton & Norma (Gaudet) Rieder 1965. “A listing by family groups of the refugee Acadians who migrated from France to Spanish Louisiana in 1785”  103p 8.5x11 hdc.

6. “JOHN IRISH His Life & Ancestors 1086-1677” (of Maine & MA), extensively researched by George E Irish 1991, & 1993 supplement, 215p hdc indexed. Note the dates, this is mostly England research. This John was of Cushnoc 1634, and to Duxbury 1637; md Elizabeth Risley?. $5.

7. “HINCKLEY HERITAGE & HISTORY”, 3^rd ed 1982, E Charles Hinckley 306p.  #313 of 500 copies. $3. 

*8. “The Story of the Noncommissioned Officer Corps" 1775-date, Fisch & Wright 1989, 236p Color 8.5x11 hdc. $10.

9. “Generations & Change – Genealogical Perspectives in Social History”, Robert M Taylor & Ralph J Crandall 1986  332p hdc.  $5.

*10. “1812 – The Navy’s War”, George C Daughan  2011  491p hdc. $10.

*11. “In the Midst of Alarms – The Untold Story of Women and the War of 1812”, Dianne Graves 2007  496p.  $10.

12. “WOMEN & MEN on the OVERLAND TRAIL”, John Mack Faragher 1979  281p $2.

*13. “NOT ALL WIVES  – Women of Colonial Philadelphia”, Karin Wulf  2000  217p hdc. $10.

14. “THE PURITANS – An American Family Portrait”, Jack Cavanaugh 1994  513p $2.

15. “The Book of Abigail & John – Selected Letters of the ADAMS Family 1762-1784”, Butterfield, Friedlaender, & Kline 1975  411p hdc  $10.
16. “THOSE WHO LOVE”, A Biographical novel of Abigail & John Adams, Irving Stone 1965  662p hdc  $6. 

BOTH ADAMS BOOKS FOR $12.

*17. “DRIVEN WEST – Andrew Jackson & the Trail of Tears to the Civil War”, A J Langguth 2010  466p

Actual Shipping cost, media mail, or pick up from me. More coming as I thin out my bookshelves making room for more.    Inquire.

Order from Roland Rhoades   seeker@maine.rr.com   207-893-8832
 

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