Session to aid search for female ancestors

It is one of the all-time greatest genealogical frustrations: finding your female ancestors.

So it is wonderful that the Maine Historical Society plans a workshop on that topic 10 a.m.-noon Saturday, March 19, at the society, 489 Congress St., Portland.

Are you searching for the maiden name of a female ancestor? Or trying to discover who her parents were? Did you know that most married women from Italy are listed under their maiden names on passenger lists? Or that many Irish women traveled to the United States alone?

Join genealogist Kathy Bolduc Amoroso for this genealogy workshop. Learn how to find women in historical records and fill in the female branches of your family tree.

The fee is $25. Preregistration is requested. Call 774-1822.

Here’s another great opportunity. A genealogy workshop will be held 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, April 16, at the Family History Center of Machias, 100 Court St.

Presenting the workshop with the center are the Washington County Genealogical Society and Hannah Weston Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution.

The morning session, from 10 a.m. to noon, will be devoted to very basic strategies to help folks get started on their family trees. The afternoon session, 1-4 p.m., will include presentations on resources.

There is no registration fee, but a donation of $2 is suggested to help defray cost of the handout materials.

Organizers would like to know how many plan to attend so that they can be sure to have enough handout materials. Notify Valdine Atwood, 255-4432, valdine@

maineline.net; Frances Raye, 853-6630, raye4960@aol.com; or Ruth Ahrens, 733-4577, rahrens

@maineline.net.

If you’re thinking of going to the New England Regional Genealogical Conference March 31-April 3 at Holiday Inn By the Bay in Portland, you’ll want to know that March 1 is the registration deadline that will get you the best price.

Registration is $99 for the full conference – Thursday, Friday and Saturday, plus a special program Sunday morning. Registration for any one day is $75.

After March 1, the fee is $125 for the full conference, $85 for one day.

Registration may be mailed to Grati D. Mahony, NERGC Registration, 75 Franklin St., Douglas, MA 01516-2334. I suggest going to the Web site – www.NERGC.org – and getting the full information and registration info, including meals. Room registration should be made directly with Holiday Inn By the Bay in Portland.

The conference offers an incredible slate of speakers and talks, many of interest to Mainers.

Carol Higgins recently interviewed me about genealogy for her radio show, “Senior Talk.”

You can hear the show 6:30-7 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 26, on WVOM-FM 103.9; or 9-9:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 2, on WABI-AM 910. Hope you can join us.

The Aroostook County Genealogical Society will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 28, in the Caribou Room at Caribou Public Library. Brenda Bourgoine will talk about solving a “brick wall” in genealogy. Queries or material may be sent to ACGS, P.O. Box 142, Caribou 04736-0142.

3315. WELLINGTON-CHANDLER-CLARK-FITTSJURAL-PIERCE. Seeking information on Peter Wellington, b. 1796, and Mary Wellington, b. 1797, children of George and second wife Mary (Chandler) Wellington. Had assumed they were b. in Union. According to land records, George purchased 300 acres around Round Pond in 1800. Deed states he was from Jaffrey, N.H. Vital records of Concord, Mass., lists this second marriage taking place April 16, 1795, there. But there are also some data on the Internet that they married in Concord, Somerset County, and that Peter and Mary were b. there. Peter married Margaret Fittsjural, he d. about 1871 and they are supposedly buried in Locust Cemetery, Liberty. The mother died 1831 in Appleton, and George died in Albion. Mary married James Clark Jr., and they are buried in Appleton Ridge Cemetery. Three of George’s sons by first wife Lucy (Pierce), John, Joel and George, lived in Albion. Gen. Joel Wellington founded what is now Monticello in Aroostook County. Charles B. Whiting, 33 Beechwood Drive, Harwinton, CT 06791; deuce134@usa

datanet.net.

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