Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Organizing

With such an amazing trove of photos and documents, I have given a lot of thought as to how best to share and archive the information.  I have settled on a 3 pronged approach: scan and upload photos to Picasa; scan and upload letters and documents in searchable PDF files to Google Docs; and blog about interesting finds in Blogger.  In addition to this, I am continuing to update and enhance the family tree on Ancestry.com.

Here are the links to all the resources:
Bridges family tree on Ancestry.com - Unfortunately I can only share with specific emails.  I have sent it out to all the immediate family, but email me with anyone else who wants to see.

The nice thing is that these are free resources (except the research component on Ancestry.com) and ones that I'm quite familiar with.  If you have any other good ideas, please let me know.  Also please pass this blog link on to any kids (Touches, Campbells, Smiths) who might be interested.  I would love to have your comments and input, and any questions you might have to guide my research or postings.
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2 comments:

  1. Bilbo9March 8, 2012 at 1:01 AM

    Thanks for doing this Markie...I find it very interesting. If you come across anything which might lend weight to the family legend of native American genetic input in Maine, please let us know!

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  2. UnknownMarch 8, 2012 at 4:34 AM

    Adrienne had asked Tor to look out for this as well. Tory said that in her conversations with Ann, Ann had said that given the early Maine settlers' dependence on their native hosts in the 1600s and 1700s for survival, it is unthinkable that there wasn't some intermixing.

    I for one feel that my native name would have been something that translates to "rabbit ears with rocket bottom" - very prestigious among the Algonquin of central Maine.

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