New England’s ‘Seventh State’: Life along the coast

B.J. Jamieson
Jun 16, 2021
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About this webinar

Before railroads, New Englanders traveled by water along the coast from CT to RI and MA to ME. Records for those following a seafaring life (and their families) can be found in archives and other repositories along the coast.

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About the speaker

B.J. Jamieson is the genealogy reference specialist at the Maine State Library, as well as serving as the genealogy interest group chair for the Maine Library Association. She holds an M.S. in library...
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  1. LT
    Legacy Family Tree
    4 years ago

    So very informative! I'd love to borrow Ms. Jamison as I research!\n\nThank you!\n\nThank you!\n\nThanks for all the website suggestions.\n\nIt's good to be able to save/print the chat. The title/subject matter of this presentation was new to me but very relevant.\n\nThe speaker gave us so much useful information! Thank you for this excellent webinar.\n\nThis was the best webinar I have seen. Gave me some ideas of places I haven't tried for information on a ship's captain from around 1800-1820.\n\nThis was very helpful and the information will definitely help me with my research!\n\nVery Good\n\nVery good suggestions for where to go for trouble spots to get information.\n\nVery helpful\n\nVery helpful! Hopefully I will get to use her information to find people. \n\nvery informative\n\nVery informative! I had no idea so much information was available online. Great presenter, and very accessible and willing to help post presentation. Time was well spent in attending this webinar. Thank you very much. B.J. Jamieson and Legacy.\n\nvery interesting\n\nvery interesting information and very useful\n\nvery interesting. Knowledgeable speaker\n\nVery,Very Good. Give food for thought. \n\nWell done. Lots of information

  2. LT
    Legacy Family Tree
    4 years ago

    B.J. always does an excellent job with her presentations.\n\nBJ, thank you the vast swath of detailed information.\n\nExcellent information! Thank you so much. \n\nExcellent presentation!\n\nExcellent! I love the topic. I love the lots of slides. BJ did a great job talking to us. So much info! \n\nFascinating maps!!! Lots of useful information!!\n\nGod presention. Good detailed info.\n\nGood info thanks\n\nGood research repository info... but wasn't what I had expected. Worth a listen!\n\nGreat information\n\nGreat information that has expanded my knowledge on east coast life and available resources for researching in these areas. \n\nGreat information, loved the maps! Great resources.\n\nGreat Information. I really enjoyed . Please consider doing webinars on the different states. \n\nGreat presentation! My seafaring folks are from much further south, but this gave me great ideas of resources to look for.\n\nGreat topic!!\n\nI greatly enjoyed learning about maritime records.\n\nI love new info!\n\nI really appreciated her conversational presentation, rather than those who read a script. A wealth of great information.\n\nInteresting information. Thanks.\n\nIt would be interesting to do a followup lecture on this topic either dividing by time, ie before and after 1820 or between MA and Maine. Very interesting topic!\n\nLots of information !!!\n\nLots of information, much of it different and not what I've heard before or thought of. Thank you.\n\nlots of new sources unknown to me\n\nlove all the maps!\n\nMy New England ancestry is pretty limited, but she covered information that is pertinent in any search of maritime ancestors. Thanks!\n\nopened up a whole new way of thinking -- regarding travel in the New England states!!! Thanks so much!! \n\nReally enjoyable webinar. Speaker was knowledgeable and well prepared. Unique topic. Thanks!\n\nso much information that I did not know and resources to follow up on.