Early Maine McCurdy Cousins

I want to thank all the cousins that I have found through the internet. It's been awhile since I've contacted some of them. I hope they will drop me an email if they see this post or leave a comment. Most of the cousins I met through the website genealogy.com. I first met Marian Walker who has sent some material to place on our website. She descends from James and Abigail Ford McCurdy like myself. Then I met Judy Machnik also at genealogy.com. She is a descendant of John and Anna Hilton McCurdy like myself. Then there is Cindy Oder who descends from Thomas McCurdy who married his cousin Elizabeth Hilton. There is Dawn Baker who has also sent me quite a bit of info. She descends from Elizabeth McCurdy daughter of Thomas McCurdy and Miss Kilpatrick. I've written Jean Masters a couple of times I beleive she descends from John and Anna Hilton McCurdy. Mike Daigle surfed in a few months back. He like Dawn descends from Elizabeth McCurdy who married John Calderwood. Then there's Ruth York who also comes from the Calderwood McCurdy line. And of course there's Kris Williams who has helped me tremendously she is the one who helped me find the yahoo website info and helped me get started. Thanks a bunch Kris. The Last cousin I met was just about a month ago and that would be Philip McCurdy also from James and Abigail McCurdy. You can read about it in a previous post. Let's see that would make nine cousins. Not many but hey, we've just begun.

Another Maine McCurdy Cousin!

Last month as I was doing research on exactly what Dna testing could do to help genealogical work. I got quite excited about the prospects of tying our McCurdy Maine line in with other known McCurdy lines of the 5 borthers who left Scotland for Ireland in 1666. I decided that I could look up McCurdys through google and email a couple or so a week and tell them about the Dna testing and about family research in general. Well, to my great surprise one of the first persons I emailed happened to be from our Maine McCurdy line. His name is Philip Emerald McCurdy. His great-great grandfather Emerald McCurdy and my great-great grandfather Converse Lilly McCurdy are brothers. At times I think I need to expand my website to include other McCurdy lines in hopes to find more cousins from our Maine line, but I'm not certain just how to go about doing this yet. Finding other cousins from our line seems to be slow in coming but very rewarding. The Picture is of Emerald McCurdy.

New look for Early Maine McCurdys

I was looking at the home page of earlymainemccurdys.com and was most dissatisfied. So I called my nephew Richard in Arizona and asked for some advise. Hopefully you like the new look. I'm not totally satisfied and will be making a few more changes as time permits. I'm trying to make it look more professional even though this amateur is doing the design. Thanks Richio for the healthy criticism.