Why is Gilbert Baker on the front page of this?

I've had this album in my possession for over 20 years, but I've never been able to put the puzzle together. The first photo in this album is labelled Gilbert Baker, father of Sarah Barrett. The second photo is labelled George N Frothingham (my grandfather) and the third is Samuel Foster Frothingham, who could be either my great-grandfather or his uncle. For years, I've searched Ancestry.com for a clue to who Gilbert Baker might be. This week, I've been spending more time on FamilySearch.org after my daughter-in-law mentioned it at lunch on Saturday. They have indexed a huge amount of images lately and I was finally able to find some clues.

First, I found Sarah Baker's marriage to James Barrett. Her parents were Gilbert Baker and Sarah. That looked promising. She was 20 years old at the marriage in 1874, so now I had an approximate birth date. Some more searching found Sarah Baker, born 1854, father Gilbert S Baker, and mother Sarah who was born in Nova Scotia.

A little more research found Gilbert S Baker's marriage to Sarah McIntire in 1851. Sarah's father was listed as Edward McIntire. However, I also found a death record for Sarah which listed her father as John MacIntire and her birth as occurring in Prince Edward Island.

My great-grandfather, Samuel F Frothingham was married to Jane McIntire. Jane was born in Prince Edward Island in 1838. Her death record lists her father as Edward MacIntyre. I can't be positive, but I believe Sarah (McIntire) Baker was either Jane McIntire's sister, or possibly her cousin, depending on which record of her father's name is correct.

Now if I could just find clues to some of the 31 unlabelled photos in the album.

1940 Census Countdown

For those like me who are eagerly awaiting the release of the 1940 Federal Census, here is a countdown monitor until the big DAY. Add 9 hours to this for the exact TIME the census schedule images will be available on April 2, 2012, at 9:00 AM EDT.

1940 Census Countdown

Photo Albums Are Back!

After much frustration and a few curse words all the photo albums are back online. The link from Frothingham.us should bring you to them, but if not, this link will work.

Heritage Gallery

They still need some details fixed. The captions all disappeared when I re-loaded the pictures, and they reverted to the original file names. I'll try to make them prettier soon. For now, they are organized in albums, mostly by family or contributor. The gravestones are in a separate album, grouped by cemetery name and can be found at this link:

Virtual Cemetery

Gagnon-Poulin Connection

I know that Aurore (Poulin) Gilman's mother was Mary Gagnon. I'm trying to make the connection to the Gagnons that I knew when I was growing up in Salisbury MA. I think possibly Mary Gagnon and Louis Gagnon, whose wife was Rosanna, may be brother and sister but the final piece is eluding me. Can anyone help?

Great Newsome Brewery Comment

I received a message from Matthew Hodgson at my Frothingham.us guestbook. He and I have been corresponding for several years. I recently had a chance to try some of their Frothingham Best beer while in London.  He's wondering if the Frothingham Family in the United States would have enough interest in their beer to start sending some here. I think we should all support him!

Here is his message:

See our link about Frothingham success and the Yorkshire Taste awards here in the UK. If we get lots of interest from the Frothingham family may be one day we will be able in distribute this wonderful beer in the U.S.
See our site www.greatnewsomebrewery.co.uk
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New Update but the Galleries are not working (yet!)

I just released an updated version of Frothingham.us. to more accurately portray my focus on my children's heritage instead of the Frothingham family alone. The Frothingham name is still the major player on the site, but I've added a huge amount of Richard, Welch, Poulin, Gilman, and Patenaude lines as well.

As with any change there have been some glitches. I think I have fixed a few of the bugs already, but for the next few days, the galleries are not working. I should be able to get the photos back on-line as soon as I get a block of free time. There are some wonderful photos of the family of Ephrem Gilman that haven't been on the site before. They were sent by Albert Gilman who also contributed a large amount of pedigree information.  I hope to get everything fixed within the next week. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this picture of Ephrem Gilman as a young man. Thank you for being patient. Please check back soon.

Slow going with the Windows 7 but I'm getting there.

I managed to get comfortable with my new version of Family Tree Maker. Today, I decided to convert my information to a Ged-com file and post it on my website. Surprise!! Windows 7 doesn't recognize my website settings. Arggh!  So the update to the website will need to wait a while longer until I get the navigation links established. I have a lot of new information on the Gilman ancestors and some new Gilman family photos to post. Hope to get everything online soon. Thanks for your patience.