Salem Mass Families

Well, I really didn't want to start a discussion. Just wnted to know hoe to add documents and photos to it,Tried going to photo but no way to add, as far as I can see. Judy

I just added a photo a few days ago and I'm trying to remember how I did it. I think I found the person in the tree and then clicked on Edit. I'm pretty sure that's where I found the link to upload the photo.

To add images or documents to this project go here

http://www.geni.com/projects/Early-Families-of-Salem-Massachuetts/m...

And click the "add photos" button - it works the same way as adding to profiles.

You need to collaborate on the project; Katherine, I've sent you an invitation to join. Check your "requests" inbox.

More tech info here if needed

http://www.geni.com/projects/Working-with-Projects/12487

I just gave it a short but instead of ending up into the project , they went into my photo s.The heck with it!

From your photo album you can "tag" to project. I'll try & find you a screen shot but it's in the fields below the image, like date, location, etc. Make sure it's public.

How do you tag. I have never tagged anything, Never had a reason to.

Direct decendant to Richard Norman. Looking for the name of the ship that brought he and his son over with the other "Old Planters" to Cape Ann with the Essex Group

You may be able to find some information here:

http://www.winthropsociety.com/settlers.php

Thanks Katherine, I looked and for the Little John they only had a partial list of passengers.
The Ann, of course came out of Holland, so my family would not have been on that one, though the passenger list was complete and didn't have them.
Richard "The Immigrant" Norman is listed as a member of the group arriving in 1623 as a shipwright , but not on the ships registry.
Would anyone have a connection or a lead to Essex England historical information?

Here are some more links worth checking out.
http://www.pem.org/library/
http://www.americanancestors.org/home.html

P E M is now useless to most people. It's building in Salem is under construction and no one seems to know when it will be up and running again. It has a small area open on Thursdays in Peabody but you have to be approved to get in. So what good is it?

You're right about that! We had planned a visit to do some research earlier in the summer and discovered that situation. There is some info online, but not as much as one would like.

I was very disappointed. I just moved to Salem and am down the street from P EM and figured I'd have a place to and nothing. Not only that their library is next to useless. Very small Gen room. Didn't even know who the Orne family is and it's a really big family in Salem but they didn't know and Athanamin is even worst. I had been to the one in Portsmouth, a wonderful place, nice people, very helpful, lots of info, so of course I was expecting to see the same in Salem. No no no
. Nothing but new books and they said only P EM have info and they kept trying to get me to Peabody and I kept telling them originally from Saugus, new to Salem , have no clur about Peaby and they kept , well you know where sucjh and such is in Peabody and I'd say , I know nothing about Peabody. But they kept it up. Very deprssing. Well, at least the Reg, of probate and Deeds is still here and I live next door.

Registry will have great information! I found tons of lists of documents on file at PEM. But you can't look at most of it online. I emailed them and they were very quick to reply, but short of getting in to look at documents, it doesn't help. Part of the problem is that Salem was much larger in the early days. Much info actually would be in other towns in the area. I found this tidbit online.
http://www.legendinc.com/Pages/MarbleheadNet/MM/FirstFamilyFolder/O...
Maybe a field trip to Marblehead is in order
Good luck in your search :)

Probate Deeds office also has a map room. I got a copy of a letter my several times back Great grandfather wrote to Timothy Orne of Salem, his brother-in-law. date June 27, 1762, two days after my Benjamim Parker married Anna Tayor, sister of Orne's wife. It 's an interesting letter. I wish they were open here in Salem so I could pro-rouse the Orne files. There are a lot of them.