Whenever I conduct a search, I suspect like any other family historian, there is always an internal conversation that goes on when you find information. with a number of questions arising from the discovery. These are often on a very simple level, but finding the answers to even the simplest question usually just comes down to available time. On a general note the question might be along the lines of wondering whether current generations are still in contact with members of their close family from, say, only 2 or 3 generations ago? Then finding that a family has increased from 4 to 8 children between census returns and wondering whether the death of the mother 3 years later resulted from all her labours or even occurred in a subsequent childbirth? After all, she was only 37 and must have had many fruitful years ahead of her. Elizabeth Etta McCarthy was only 16 when she married John Reginald Durgin in Turner, Maine and already expecting her first child, Gladys Rena Durgin. Gladys was named after her grandmother, Rena Mildred (Dillingham) McCarthy who was a daughter of Charles Waterman Dillingham and Effie Jane (Place) Dillingham and a granddaughter of Charles Kneeland Dillingham. I wonder what became of the 8 children? Are any members of this DUrgin family still in the Turner, Maine area and do any of them still know of their Dillingham roots? Do they even have a photo of Rena Mildred Dillingham? She remarried and I have not yet found out what happened to her. This is just one small example to underline a question someone asked me recently when they saw a reference that I first saw 29 years ago. It referred to a history of the Dillingham family as a major undertaking!! :-)
Posted on: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 17:33:35 +0000
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