Getting Published in Connecticut Ancestry
Well, I took the leap. I’ve just been published in “our” journal, Connecticut Ancestry, in the November 2005 issue. My grandmother had been the keeper of the “Family Bible” for as long as I can remember. That Bible and a copy of “Ye Historie of Ye Olde Town of Greenwich” by Spencer Mead that belonged to her father is what helped me begin my genealogical journey. My grandmother had given me Mead’s book. Between these two “books”, I was now linked to many of the old Stamford and Greenwich names: Ford, Hendrie, Betts, and, of course, Ferris and Lockwood. My grandmother had continued to record the “family facts” over the years in to that Bible. Shortly before her death, she followed tradition and passed it along to the eldest female descendant, my second cousin, Jill, who lives out West. Now was the time to preserve on the East Coast and share some of the great generational history found in the “Hurlbutt-Ford” Family Bible. In fact, it has a record of every decendant of the original recipient of the Bible, Sarah L. Hurlbutt, my g-g-g-grandmother, through 2001, for a total of “seven complete generations.” It also records Sarah’s siblings and parents and father’s siblings and parents, ultimately covering nine generations.
Doing the transcription was a real joy. Looks like I’ll need to find something else to work on for Harlan, our editor, real soon….