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We submitted four people's CIT-0001e forms in a single envelope, with just one copy of the supporting evidence. We received four AORs and four UCI numbers.

Given the June guidance about documentation from the original authority, we're preparing an update to upload. We can only add a single UCI in the upload form. Do we:

• upload the PDF four times?
• upload it once and put the other three UCIs in the text box where we can explain what the documents are and why we're uploading them?
• just once and trust that the other three will be updated?

It kindof looks like I need to upload it four times, which seems weird when we only submitted the documents once.

Our water went out sometime around 8am this morning.

I called Calwater, they said there has been a main water break in the San Carlos area, they are working on it, but there is not yet an ETA for restoration.

We've found a number of Crown land grants in New Brunswick to our distant ancestors but only just discovered that also available are the Petitions to receive a grant. The most interesting from my perspective is Eleonore Dennin, plausibly our 3x great-grandmother: https://archives2.gnb.ca/Search/rs108/Details.aspx?culture=en-CA&Key=16055

There are also two petitions for John Deming in 1861 https://archives2.gnb.ca/Search/rs108/Details.aspx?culture=en-CA&Key=16012 and John Dinneen in 1859 https://archives2.gnb.ca/Search/rs108/Details.aspx?culture=en-CA&Key=16736 either of whom might be our 2x great-grandfather.

These are only available on microfilm, but does mention an inter-library film loan. I cannot find whether there are any libraries which participate in a film loan program today or whether this is a relic of an earlier age.

Has anyone used the loan program for microfilm, or is this realistically something which must be accessed in Fredericton?

Our 2x Great-grandparents were married in 1870 at St Francis Xavier in Parkersburg West Virginia, while living in the nearby town of Volcano. They went on to have at least six children. The family was Catholic.

St. Francis Xavier would be the most obvious place they might have taken their children to be baptized, and I've sent a letter (and donation) to their Archival office asking if they can look for records.

Are there other Catholic parishes which existed in the 1870s near Volcano and/or Parkersburg where they might plausibly have baptized their children?

I inquired with the clerk in Hodgdon Maine about an 1833 birth record, who referred me to the Maine State Archive. https://www.maine.gov/sos/archives/archives-services/genealogy-research

The archive has a list of towns which supplied their records in the 1920s, and Hodgdon is not on it: https://www.maine.gov/sos/sites/maine.gov.sos/files/content/assets/delayedvrlist.pdf

Did more town records make it into the archives over time, or is that it?

It looks like these old records are on microfiche, not digitized. We live in California, I'm trying to determine whether we should hire a local genealogist to search or whether it is hopeless.

We recently visited the archive of the Diocese of Saint John in New Brunswick, where we found a manual transcription of the Benedicta and Houlton Maine church books 1836 - 1862. In it were several younger siblings of the ancestor we are most interested in finding, who was born in August 1833.

The Diocese of Portland said those church books should still be at St. Mary of the Visitation in Houlton. I contacted the parish, which responded that they don't have resources to work on genealogy. I understand the constraint, it is a small congregation with limited (and mostly volunteer) staff.

The transcription we found in New Brunswick was written in 1994 by Richard Kelly (who died in 2014), who must have had access the church book at Houlton in order to make it. So, at least 30+ years ago, they would work with outside researchers.

Does anyone have more recent experience doing genealogical research at St. Mary of the Visitation in Houlton Maine?

There is an underground area beneath Sequoia Station near Caltrain which has been blocked off for a long time.

What was it?

I don't see a car entrance for underground parking, and it had a blocked off public stair entrance so it isn't just for storage.

It seems like it was built to be something else.

Has anyone ordered from the state archive of West Virginia recently, https://archive.wvculture.org/ ? How long did it take to get a response?

We sent a letter and check on March 12 asking for a 1911 newspaper obituary https://archive.wvculture.org/history/newspapers/newsmic.html