A story titled “We Found Ellen!” sounds intriguing, and it is. The November issue of the Pemmaquon Call, the quarterly newsletter of the Pembroke Historical Society, contains Donald R. Sprague’s piece on Dr. Ellen Ramsdell Blackwood Chamberlain, born in 1834 in Lubec to Capt. Charles Newhall Ramsdell and Elizabeth (McDonald) Ramsdell.

The article is a follow-up to the brief story published in August 1997 about Ellen’s sister, Dr. Lydia Ramsdell Clements. Both women graduated from Boston University School of Medicine in 1878. Clements was a world traveler and participant in the Alaska Gold Rush, Sprague wrote, and Chamberlain practiced medicine in Malden, Mass. Her husband was Col. Abial G. Chamberlain of Vermont, a Civil War veteran.

Also included in the newsletter are “Some Seafarers of the Frost Family,” “More About Will Hersey, 1887-88,” “More on the Benner-Ash Family,” a picture of Lydia Clements and 1913 pictures from Pembroke High School. This is a wonderful variety of items. Make note of the new address for information on The Pemmaquon Call: 275 Leighton Point Road, Pembroke, ME 04666; or e-mail editor Gail Menzel at menzel@nemaine.com.

Phil Getchell’s next session for Introduction to Genealogy through the Bangor Adult Education program will begin Tuesday, Nov. 16. Classes will be held 6:30-9 p.m. weekly at Bangor High School. The cost is $30 for Bangor residents, $40 for nonresidents, plus any additional costs for materials. Preregistration is required at Bangor High School, located between School Street and Grandview Avenue. Registration cannot be accepted over the phone, although you may call for information, 941-6310.

Getchell is the volunteer genealogist at the Bangor Public Library, so as you can imagine, he has a wealth of information on that resource, as well as others.

There are a couple of things I want to mention from Bangor Daily News stories you may have missed:

The Acadian Archives at the University of Maine at Fort Kent has received as a gift from the Dyer Library in Saco the Reuben Gold Thwaites edition of “The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents,” covering the 40-year period of French settlement in the New World, 1632-1673. The set includes 72 of the 73 originally published volumes.

For information, contact the Acadian Archives at 834-7535 or check the facility’s Web site at www.umfk.maine.edu/archives. The Thwaites edition also is on microforms at the University of

Maine’s Fogler Library in Orono. This is a most generous gift from the library in Saco.

Also, Denis Ledoux, the Lisbon Falls author who wrote Franco-American works such as “What Became of Them,” has another book of particular interest to genealogists of all backgrounds: “Turning Memories into Memoirs.”

You will find the book in some stores. For information about the book, workshops of the same name and other activities or books by Soleil Press, write to the company at 95 Gould Road, Lisbon Falls 04252; telephone 353-5454 or (888) 80-STORY; or see www.turningmemories.com. Ledoux is giving a workshop Nov. 18 at the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance in Brunswick. For information, call 729-6333.

3029. FAIRBROTHER-HOW. Looking for information and stories about Lovel Fairbrother, one of first settlers of Pittsfield. He was b. 1746 in Attleboro, Mass., served in French and Indian War under Capt. Kimball, md. Catherine How in Somerset County. Explored the Kennebec and Sebasticook rivers 1773-1774, brought his young family from Norridgewock to Pittsfield, then moved back to Norridgewock. Benedict Arnold stayed with him Oct. 3, 1775, on his march to Quebec. Lovel d. about Oct. 23, 1813, no one seems to know where his grave is. Also trying to connect his son, Lovel Jr., to my husband’s great-great-great-grandfather Joseph D. Fairbrother, b. 1806 in Pittsfield. Amy Fairbrother, 26901 NE 10th Ave., Ridgefield, Wash., 98642; e-mail afairbrother@mindspring.com.

3030. NASH. Seeking info regarding ancestry of J. (Josiah) Lowell Nash, who resided at Court Street, Machias, 1863-1894. Wife was Betsy. He was a master shipbuilder, probably born 1830s or 1840s in Columbia, Washington County. Moved to South Framingham, Mass., about 1894 after foreclosure on his house. John Ahlin, 90 Court St., Machias, 04654; telephone 255-4786; e-mail jahlin@acad.umm.maine.edu.

3031. COOK-EMERSON. Seeking information and birth records for Elhanan W. Cook and Atlente Emerson, md. Oct. 6, 1844; lived in Waterville area. Agnes Shorette, 418 Stillwater Ave., Old Town 04468.

Send queries with Maine connections to family ties, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor, Maine 04402; or e-mail familyti@bangordailynews.net. Full name and mailing address of sender is required even if e-mail is used.