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Hurrah, there it is! I don't think I had a mistake in the address, but it's possible. Thanks for checking my work!

Hello studentforever and anyone else who might happen on this post. It's now 18 months since I chimed in about the Jamestown's logbook. I must confess I haven't done much--okay, anything--with that log yet, and I haven't even gotten far with the Ossipee's, that being the ship that E C Thatcher, assi...

Ha! Thanks, Randi! I had looked all over for confirmation about the definition of 'passed,' it was one of those things that I was quite sure of but felt I needed a source for. Yet no google search brought satisfaction, and I'm pretty good at search terms. Turns out it was here all along!

I found that the lists of 'Register of Commissioned Officers...' as found at ibiblio, hathitrust, and elsewhere, were not that useful, as many, including for most years of the 19th C, were not linked and apparently not available online. However, they ARE available, and linked through Ancestry.com. O...

I wondered if I could help but although I have several logbooks of Jamestown in various stages of transcription that period is not included. I know only too well the problems of reading handwritten logs, just as you've got used to a writer they CHANGE HIM. Your ancestor sounds quite a character - t...

Randi suggested this would be the best place for my initial post in this forum, so here goes. I'm using the logbooks of the Jamestown and the Ossipee for a personal research project about a 'collateral ancestor.' I found Old Weather while researching my great-grand-uncle, Dr Edward Cassin Thatcher, ...