Making comments, adding entries

If you wish to make a comment on any entry, just click on the work "comments" below each entry. If it is the type of comment that needs to become an entry, I will move it into the main entry column. Comments are moderated; I see them before they are posted. I will cheerfully delete any spam. If you wish to send a larger entry by email, leave that as a comment with your e-mail address. I will delete the comment as soon as I see it and write to you directly.

-bob

Issues 1-14 and 16 of Lounsbury Tree added

Bill Mac Donald has been working assiduously to scan early issues of the Lounsbury Tree and has now completed the first fourteen issues and the sixteenth issue, linked at the right. Thank you, Bill.

-bob

Early Lounsbury Trees added

Bill Mac Donald has been very busy scanning early issues. You will notice four issues added: 1, 2, 3, and 5! Thanks, Bill.

-bob

Lounsbury Tree Issue 32 added

Bill Mac Donald has scanned issue 32 and it is now available (see Lounsbury Tree list to the right).

-bob

Fall 2007 Issue of L-Tree

If you have information for the Fall issue of the L-Tree, please send it ASAP to Bill Mac Donald as an attachment. His address (substitute an "@" for the "at" and no spaces) is wmacdonald at kwic.com. Bill plans to have the issue out in November.

-bob

Three latest L-Trees added

Bill Mac Donald has sent the three most recent issues of the L-Tree, Spring 2006, Fall 2006, and Spring 2007, and I have added them to the list at the right. Note that the latest issue is much larger than the others at over 6 MB.

-bob

Olive Tree Genealogy

Added Olive Tree Genealogy to the general resource list. This is a listing of free genealogy records and claims links to over 1,700 databases. Thanks to Bill Mac Donald for pointing this one out.

Books for Lounsbury Research

Three very useful books for Lounsbury family research are:
1) Lounsbury, Origin, Meaning and Significance; by Raymond H. Lounsbury, 1976
2) Pennoyer Brothers, Colonization, Commerce, Charity in the Seventeenth Century; by Raymond H. Lounsbury, 1971, published by Dorrance & Company, Philadelphia, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 72-151059
3) The North American Descendants of William & Grace Elizabeth (Gray) Lounsbury of North River, New Brunswick by Jack H. Lounsbury, privately published November 1985

Bill Mac Donald

Welcome

Jim Jurista and Bill Mac Donald have been excellent editors of the Lounsbury Tree, a newsletter dedicated to promulgating genealogical information about the family name of Lounsbury with all its spellings, such as Loundsbury, Lounsbery, and Lonsbury, to name the more common. You are welcome to post questions and comments here to be read by others interested in Lounsbury genealogy. SPAM will be cheerfully deleted. Links for issues of the Lounsbury Tree will be available on this site.

-bob fraser