I'm looking for any info on the parents of my grgrandfather William Washington Jones and Catherine Phillips. They had five daughters but I only have 2 names, Martha Jane(Mattie) and Ella. Mattie was my grandmother married F.M(Frank) Weems all of Abbeville, AL. Mattie's birthday abt. 1869 death 1918 at age 49.
grgrgrandfather had a lot of brothers and sisters: Maybe this can help someone searching for family
Mary Martha Jones b:1831 AL mar Radford Ellis McKissack
Evan Jones b: 1833 AL mar Margaret M
This post is a continuation of the discussion in my last post, Can I obtain a copyright of a copy of an old document? The commentary is directed at websites that claim copyrights to digitized images of old documents of interest to genealogists, such as U.S. Census records, wills, deeds, maps and other such items. Let's suppose that as an attorney, I have read all the copyright cases concerning copies of documents in the public domain and a prospective client comes to me and says, I have several
This story includes excerpts referring to several of my relatives. It is part of a series of Biographical Sketches from Burke County, North Carolina that were written by by Col Thomas George Walton (1815-1905) and were first
published in the old Morganton Herald in 1894.
“PETER MULL [7x great-uncle] was elected Sheriff in 1790.”
We were recently sitting around the Easter dinner table discussing tuition, college and relishing the fact that we will no longer be paying tuition, since our daughter graduates with her Master’s Degree a few weeks from now.
My mom stated that she paid $110.00 for all three years of nursing school at the Beverly Hospital School for nurses. She graduated from Hamilton high school in 1953, so she attended nursing school until 1956. She is a registered nurse (RN). My daughter’s jaw dropped at that
Books I read ahead or bought along the way:
The Betrayal of Liliuokalani, Last Queen of Hawaii, by Helena G. Allen, 1991
Washington Place: A First Lady’s Story, by Jean Aryoshi, 2004
Around the World with a King, by William N. Armstrong, 2009 (King Kalakua’s international trip of 1881 to Asia, Europe and the United States)
Mauna A’la: Hawai’I’s Royal Mausoleum, by Don Chapman with William Kaihe’ekai Mai’oho, 2004
Oahu Revealed, 3rd Edition, by Andrew Doughty, 2010
The Queen’s Quilt, by Rhoda E. A. Hac
This is a continuation of the story of my family history related trip to Hawaii. On our last full day in Hawaii we met with my Honolulu cousin and privately visited the gravesites of the Dominis family at the Oahu cemetery. We also were able to see the Royal Mausoleum, located nearby, where the royal family, including Governor Dominis, is buried. The Mausoleum, Mauna ‘Ala, is on sovereign ground. The flag of the Kingdom of Hawaii still flies here, not the US flag, and the ground is considered sa
10 genealogy books at the Murray County Library that I want to review:
This is a continuation of the story of my family history research trip to Hawaii. It was our second to last day in Honolulu, and we had a second appointment with the curator at Washington Place. This was the home built by Captain John Dominis for his wife, Mary Lambert Jones, sister to my 4x great grandmother, Catherine Plummer Jones. The Jones family was from Boston, and so he built her a grand, New England style home in Honolulu. We had visited Washington Place the previous week, and were happ
I am trying to document my Burris line for the DAR. I have two grand parents who lived most of their lives in Kentucky, but both died in Tennessee in the hospital nearest their home. Which state do I send to looking for their death certificates? Any help will be appreciated.
This is a continuation of the story of my family history related trip to Hawaii. We hadn’t done much research on the past two days, so this day was back to work day! We had another 10 AM appointment for a guided tour at Iolani Palace. It is necessary to make reservations for guided tours ahead of time, but my cousin and her nine year old grandson were able to secure tickets to join us. Self guided tours are available during the open hours at the palace (check the website).
Of course, since we we
The former Colonial Cemetery in Happy Valley, Hong Kong is the resting place for many who travelled to the Far East in the 19th. Century. The British Colony was a thriving trading centre and home to merchants, servicemen and colonial civil servants. Members of the Royal Navy and merchant seamen all spent time on what was once termed ‘this barren rock’.
From 1985 to 1995 whilst I was working in Hong Kong I spent my weekends in the cemetery transcribing and indexing the memorial inscriptions. Durin
