{"id":48,"date":"2019-01-20T22:10:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T22:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy-paulsen.org\/home\/?page_id=48"},"modified":"2026-05-02T06:27:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T11:27:26","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/genealogy-paulsen.org\/home\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Dr. Kenneth S. Paulsen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kenneth Paulsen holds a doctorate in Canadian History from the University of Maine at Orono, with two Bachelors of Arts degrees from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a Master of Arts degree from Northeastern University in Boston.\u00a0 He was a Fulbright scholar at St. Mary&#8217;s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, a Canadian Embassy Graduate Fellow and the 1992 Winthrop Pickard Bell Fellow in Canadiana at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick.\u00a0 He was an adjunct faculty member at Bridgewater State University in Bridgewater, Massachusetts from 2019 t0 2023 and was from 2010 to 2022 at Bunker Hill Community College in Charlestown, Massachusetts.\u00a0 Kenneth is a member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia, the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society and the South Shore Genealogical Society (of Nova Scotia).\u00a0 While on the staff of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, he was a subject area specialist in Nova Scotia and Foreign Protestant genealogy.\u00a0 He assisted in the development of their Nova Scotia genealogical collection.\u00a0 The majority of his ancestors were foreign Protestant settlers in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia.\u00a0 Kenneth\u2019s paternal grandfather\u2019s ancestry is Danish and Swedish while his paternal great grandmother\u2019s ancestry is Prince Edward Island Scottish and Loyalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenneth Paulsen holds a doctorate in Canadian History from the University of Maine at Orono, with two Bachelors of Arts degrees from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a Master of Arts degree from Northeastern University in Boston.\u00a0 He was a Fulbright scholar at St. Mary&#8217;s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, a Canadian Embassy &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogy-paulsen.org\/home\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About Dr. Kenneth S. Paulsen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-48","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PaELUP-M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy-paulsen.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy-paulsen.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy-paulsen.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy-paulsen.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy-paulsen.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy-paulsen.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy-paulsen.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy-paulsen.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}