We can get so focused on the neighborhood, town or city of our ancestors that sometimes we overlook counties as resources.

I plugged in “Big Hollow” and “Greene County” in a search engine while looking for some of my New York state forebears and came up with the interesting “Men of Greene County in the American Revolution” Web site at www.rootsweb.com

/~nygreen2/rw-menofgreenecounty.htm.

Yes, that is indeed a hyphen after the /rw.

This Web site includes men who settled in the area after the Revolutionary War and often indicates where the family came from. For instance, Joseph Allen, who lived in Catskill, was from Newport, R.I.

RootsWeb, which is the Web site for the USGenWeb Project, also gives us some help when we plug in “Penobscot County” and “genealogy.”

We find the Penobscot County site at www.rootsweb.com/~mepenobs/mepenobs.htm.

Under “Towns and History,” we might pull up the 1850 census records for the town of Hudson, leading us to find surnames such as Keezer, Pierce, Carle, Goodwin, Blanchard and Peevy, among others. We note that while most Hudson residents were born in Maine, Benjamin and Polly Field are from New Hampshire, though sons George and Warren were born in Maine.

We can look at Bible records for the family of Alonzo Buck and Mary (Wolton) of Lincoln, and for George D. Clark and Eunice E. (Newhall) of Lynn, Mass., and Dixmont.

Clicking on “County Archives,” we find transcriptions of resources such as cemeteries in Hampden.

Other links will take you to sites for Mount Hope Cemetery in Bangor, the Maine State Archives, the Maine Historical Society and Bangor Public Library.

David Colby Young is the host for the USGenWeb project for Maine.

The exhibit is titled “From Chemical to Electronic Images … 60 years,” a display of photos and abstract images by Lee Sirabella, now partially retired. But it also is a “claiming event,” where portraits that at one time or another were displayed at the studio or fairs can be claimed. An individual or family may place a sticker with name and address on the back of the photograph, and in due time the photograph will be theirs without charge.

“Portraits go back 60 years,” Sirabella said, “mostly of children who may now be, without doubt, grandmothers and grandfathers.”

The exhibit, which also includes computer digital art, is open 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays at 11 Washington St., Brewer.

What a marvelous idea. Perhaps historical societies might consider sponsoring a “claiming event” to help families disburse old photographs they no longer wish to keep. And, one hopes, some of the treasures would find their way into the historical societies’ archives, as well.

3345. BROWN-NICHOLS-SEAVEY. Seeking birth record, birth place and parents for Reuben Brown, husband of 1) Hannah Tilton Nichols, 2) Rosannah Ferguson Seavey. Reuben died Jan. 16, 1894, is buried in Etna. Theresa Brown, 2130 Kennebec Road, Newburgh, ME 04444; calderwood@uninets.net.

3346. TUCK-TODD. Seeking birth parents for Lewis C. Tuck, born about 1862 in Maine. He married Clara Dale Todd on Apr. 23, 1882, in Caribou. Their son Percy Harold was born in 1887 in Mapleton. Frank Fisher, 5 Granite Road, Ossipee, NH 03864; franknh56@hotmail.com. Editor’s note: A Lewis Tuck, 18, is listed in 1880 census for Calais with stepfather John Satchell or Gatchell, mother Sarah Satchell, siblings Thomas and Ellen Tuck, and stepbrothers John, Charles, Frank and Henry Satchell. John and Sarah both born in England.

3347. KENNEDY-FOLSOM. Seeking ancestry and family information for Samuel Kennedy Jr., born April 6, 1814, and wife Sarah (Folsom), born 1816. They lived in Jefferson and are buried in the Shephard Hill Cemetery there. Marriage intentions filed in Lincolnville. Danny W. Howard 903, DECF 64 Base Road, Machiasport, ME 04655.

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