{"id":2,"date":"2007-01-14T21:09:19","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T04:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.holyokemass.com\/about.html"},"modified":"2012-01-24T21:49:47","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T04:49:47","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About\/Contact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mylifeinbrooklyn.com\/img\/58670.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a Holyoke expat now living in the Finger Lakes Region of Central NY state.<\/p>\n<p>This site functions as a repository for interesting adaptations of text and images about subjects and places I love relating to the history and genealogy of Western Massachusetts. It also provides a forum for discussion.<\/p>\n<p>For many years now, I&#8217;ve been researching my Holyoke-related family genealogy.   In fact, my database contains more than twenty thousand individuals that are both directly and indirectly related to my family and Holyoke.   As of today, I have about 3300 different surnames in my database. A majority of my family landed in Holyoke from Scotland, so I am highly interested in certain Scottish surnames.   A smaller portion of my family landed in Hampshire and Franklin counties from Ireland (Millstreet, County Cork) in the 1850&#8217;s. If your Holyoke-based surname is among those on the following list, I am interested in hearing from you &#8212; plus I have many, many other names that I have compiled significant research upon.   The names in bold are of a significant interest to me &#8212; but I am interested in all names, plus others not appearing here:<\/p>\n<p>Aitken, <strong>Alexander<\/strong>, Ballou, Baran, Barnett, Battersby, Beach, Beaverstock, Becher, Bessette, <strong>Bibby<\/strong>, Biela, Bilz, <strong>Blackhall<\/strong>, Blanchette, <strong>Bogdanovich<\/strong>, <strong>Brooksbank<\/strong>, <strong>Brough<\/strong>, <strong>Cameron<\/strong>, Campbell, <strong>Cathro<\/strong>, <strong>Clark<\/strong>, Counter, Couture, Crafts, Crean, Curran, Danner, Daunheimer, Dellert, <strong>Dollar<\/strong>, Downie, Dupuis, Eichstaedt, <strong>Engle<\/strong>, Englehardt, Equi, <strong>Ewen<\/strong>, Flynn, Ford, Fortune, <strong>Freeburn<\/strong>, Gallup, Gaylord, Gibson, Gough, <strong>Gow<\/strong>, Green, Halkyard, Halliday, <strong>Harris<\/strong>, Hay, Hoessler, <strong>Houston<\/strong>, <strong>Hynd<\/strong>, Irwin, Ittner, <strong>Jolly<\/strong>, King, <strong>Knowles<\/strong>, LaDuke, <strong>Lafond<\/strong>, Laird, Landry, <strong>Latour<\/strong>, Lawler, Lempke, <strong>Lequin<\/strong>, <strong>Lobban<\/strong>, Loescher, Longbottom, <strong>Lowe<\/strong>, <strong>Mackenzie<\/strong>, Malcolm, Marsh, McCorkindale, McCurry, <strong>McDowell<\/strong>, <strong>McEwan<\/strong>, <strong>McFarlane<\/strong>, <strong>McGarvie<\/strong>, McIntyre, Merrill, Merriman, <strong>Miles<\/strong>, Minutillo, Mitton, Montcalm, Moores, Murphy, Naughton, <strong>Pratt<\/strong>, Rackliffe, Rae, <strong>Ross<\/strong>, Schubach, <strong>Scougall<\/strong>, Seiffert, Simpson, <strong>Sloan<\/strong>, <strong>Smith<\/strong>, Stapley, Steadward, Stephens, Stevenson, Tetreault, <strong>Thompson<\/strong>, <strong>Thomson<\/strong>, <strong>Topham<\/strong>, Troelenberg, Tulloch, Valenti, Vigneux, Visco, Volkmann, Wade, Wailgum, <strong>Walker<\/strong>, Wilson, Wingate, <strong>Winkler<\/strong>, <strong>Wyllie<\/strong> , Young.<\/p>\n<p>Contact info: Holyoke[at]gmail dot com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a Holyoke expat now living in the Finger Lakes Region of Central NY state. This site functions as a repository for interesting adaptations of text and images about subjects and places I love relating to the history and genealogy of Western Massachusetts. It also provides a forum for discussion. For many years now, I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}