New England’s ‘Seventh State’: Life along the coast
B.J. Jamieson
Content
Welcome
1m 23s
Speaker's Introduction
53s
Introduction
9m 9s
Transportation Times
5m 13s
Proof of Origin
6m 5s
Newspaper Accounts
8m 8s
Lloyd's Register
8m 3s
Other Records
19m 14s
Maritime Museums
9m 1s
Announcements / prizes
7m 28s
Questions / answers
12m 25s
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.
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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Comments (2)
B.J. always does an excellent job with her presentations.
BJ, thank you the vast swath of detailed information.
Excellent information! Thank you so much.
Excellent presentation!
Excellent! I love the topic. I love the lots of slides. BJ did a great job talking to us. So much info!
Fascinating maps!!! Lots of useful information!!
God presention. Good detailed info.
Good info thanks
Good research repository info... but wasn't what I had expected. Worth a listen!
Great information
Great information that has expanded my knowledge on east coast life and available resources for researching in these areas.
Great information, loved the maps! Great resources.
Great Information. I really enjoyed . Please consider doing webinars on the different states.
Great presentation! My seafaring folks are from much further south, but this gave me great ideas of resources to look for.
Great topic!!
I greatly enjoyed learning about maritime records.
I love new info!
I really appreciated her conversational presentation, rather than those who read a script. A wealth of great information.
Interesting information. Thanks.
It 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!
Lots of information !!!
Lots of information, much of it different and not what I've heard before or thought of. Thank you.
lots of new sources unknown to me
love all the maps!
My New England ancestry is pretty limited, but she covered information that is pertinent in any search of maritime ancestors. Thanks!
opened up a whole new way of thinking -- regarding travel in the New England states!!! Thanks so much!!
Really enjoyable webinar. Speaker was knowledgeable and well prepared. Unique topic. Thanks!
so much information that I did not know and resources to follow up on.
So very informative! I'd love to borrow Ms. Jamison as I research!
Thank you!
Thank you!
Thanks for all the website suggestions.
It's good to be able to save/print the chat. The title/subject matter of this presentation was new to me but very relevant.
The speaker gave us so much useful information! Thank you for this excellent webinar.
This 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.
This was very helpful and the information will definitely help me with my research!
Very Good
Very good suggestions for where to go for trouble spots to get information.
Very helpful
Very helpful! Hopefully I will get to use her information to find people.
very informative
Very 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.
very interesting
very interesting information and very useful
very interesting. Knowledgeable speaker
Very,Very Good. Give food for thought.
Well done. Lots of information