Family Web site a fount of knowledge

We mentioned last fall the Kalloch Family Home Page, the Web site of the Kalloch Family Reunion Association, which can be found at http://kalloch.accessgenealogy.com.

I’m predicting that this site, done by Ken Kalloch of Concord, N.H., is going to become increasingly popular as time goes on. As webmaster, Kalloch is doing a tremendous amount of work on the site.

It’s great timing, because the association will hold its 135th reunion Aug. 17 in Knox County, location to be announced.

The site includes a database of descendants of Finley Kalloch or Killough, one of four sons of Robert Killough and Margaret Finley, who came from County Antrim to Boston in 1718. Finley Kalloch settled in Warren in 1735.

Related surnames are Killough, Kellough, Kelloch, Kalloch, Kellock, Kellar and Keller.

Sections of the site include “Notable Kellochs,” among them Edna St. Vincent Millay; “Family News,” “Family Book List,” “Family History & Genealogy” and “Family Reunion Association.”

The book list includes a description of each book and its connection to Kallochs, and the type of reading it provides, from genealogy to “pleasant reading” to “controversy” to “spiritual reading.”

The latter is “Four Spiritualities: Expressions of Self, Expressions of Spirit,” by Peter T. Richardson.

Richardson is the association’s historian, and has compiled a manuscript of Kalloch genealogy that is 1,830 pages so far.

The Web site also includes a growing database and links to other sites. You may contact Ken Kalloch by e-mail at kdk44@juno.com.

Even if you’re not related to the Kallochs, you may find connections to some other Knox County families on the site, or at least ideas for starting or adding to your family’s Web site.

Do you know of family sites that would be of particular interest to those with Maine ancestry? Send along the info, either by regular mail or e-mail to Family Ties, and we’ll check it out.

Alice Beal has a suggestion of a good Web site of interest to Down East researchers – http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~strout/geneal.html.

The title of the site is “Descendants of James Maxwell, UEL (United Empire Loyalists), Ireland; Schylkill River area of Pennsylvania; Port Matoon, Nova Scotia; Charlotte County, New Brunswick, and Christopher Strout, Cornwall, England; Truro, Massachusetts; Maine.”

The most common surnames in the database, compiled by Marilyn Maxwell Strout of Otisfield, are Small, 285; Strout, 2,705; Maxwell, 310; Sawyer, 215; Dyer, 261; Leighton, 280; Hill, 440; Fickett, 501; Jordan, 222.

3168. CONNERS-OAKES. Seeking info on descendants of George P. Conners and wife Harriet E. Oakes, md. 1869 in Cherryfield. Have little or no information on four of the 10 children: Angie Conners, md. Everett W. Archer, Aurora; Henrietta Conners Giles Freethy Gray, md. John Gray, Dedham; Edith J. Conners, md. Elmer Morse, 1879, Cherryfield; and Joseph W. Conners, md. Eva E. Hartford, 1899, Cherryfield. Harold R. Conners, 25 Willow St., Ellsworth, ME 04605; telephone 667-8114; or e-mail hsconners@panax.com; or e-mail Susan Conners at susan.conners@verizon.net.

3169. WOOD-TOWNSEND. Seeking parents, siblings, wife and children for Joe Wood, England. His daughter was Minerva Wood Townsend, my grandmother, b. June 10, 1874, England; d. Aug. 4, 1914, Pine Point, Scarborough. Her death certificate lists her mother as unknown. Minerva wrote to a brother (?) in Dewsbury, England. Any information appreciated. We’ve reached a dead end. Esther Hardwick, P.O. Box 224, Limestone, ME 04750.

3170. SHORT. Seeking parents, ancestry, names of wives of Ellsworth Short, son of Peale Short. Ellsworth may have lived in Kittery or Kittery Point area, Portsmouth area. Ellsworth may have died between 1970 and 1980. Danny W. Howard, DECF Box 428, Machiasport, ME 04655.

Send queries to Family Ties, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor, ME 04402; or send e-mail to familyti@bangordailynews.net.