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Me: See that green arrow in New FamilySearch? Just click on the arrow.
Friend: This shows that this person needs to be sealed to his wife.
Me: But look, there are three wives with the same name and severalothers with different names. It looks like these three are du
I visited the Murray County Probate Court last week and came away with nine copies of marriage records. I went in with a pedigree chart highlighting direct ancestors who were married (or who I thought may have been married) in Murray County. I had marriage dates for many of them, so my goal was to get . . . → : CONTINUE READING
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My grandmother almost carried the recipe for her famous cookies to her grave. She was a marvelous cook and had several recipes that were family favorites. She loved getting the praise and glory for producing these specialties for us and could never be coaxed to share the recipes.Finally, at some point in her 80s (she passed away in 1997 at the age of 93) she beautifully typed up the recipe and gave a copy to me and a copy to my sister. I’m not sure who else got copies.
This photo was taken at the
This week I’m looking for ancestors of Leaty (Lankford) West, whose gravestone I found several weeks ago. I have her parents as Wyatt Lankford and Morning Tabitha Bruer.
“Wiet” and Morning Lankford were enumerated on the 1880 Census in the Alaculsa District of Murray County, Georgia. I feel somewhat confident that these are Leaty’s parents, because they are . . . → : CONTINUE READING
Dennis Pogue, vice president for preservation at Mount Vernon, says theventure was all about the money.
"Washington came back from the presidency in 1797 and he was looking frankly for an easier way to make mone
Handwriting Analysis can be fun or it can be a hair tearing, tears watering event.
I love working with the census reports and old writings and challenging my self to be able to
read what was written way back when.
Chuckling because MOM says my hand written letters are like a puzzle for her to follow any more.
She says I write in to much computerize and shorten the sentences to much.
Wow, has working on computers and making the shortcut terms so often used also with cell phones
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With so much information available online, it’s easy to forget the wealth of publications that are only available in print or on microfilm and that can often be found at libraries.
I find it helpful to prepare before visiting a library, otherwise I become overwhelmed with all the choices when I get there. Most libraries today have . . . → : CONTINUE READING
Amos Johnson and his wife Betty are buried in Mount Pleasant Baptist Church Cemetery in Gilmer County, Georgia. They may be my 3x-great-grandparents, Amos and Elizabeth; however the dates don’t quite match up.
Census records (1850 and 1860) indicate that Amos Johnson was born about 1826, while the birthdate on this stone is 1817. The stone also records Amos’ death in . . . → : CONTINUE READING
November 9, 2009 marked my second visit to Necedah, Wisconsin in just two months. I
One I liked was what are your favorite top websites to use for research. This is a question that comes with many answers, at least that is my prospective.
Lets say we are doing New England research, and had just stopped tracking the name in VA.
Well in Virginia you would use state records, historical societies, usgenweb.org, local genealog
Hi, my name is Quincy Cruse and I'm looking for some answers in my history for my family with the last name Cruse.So can anyone help me?
The release of Ancestry's Australia BMD Index seems to have been met with mixed reviews. Interestingly, here in the UK, although it got press coverage, and links to the Ancestry.co.uk website, there are no obvious details there!
However, full details can be found on the Autralian site:
In a project that has taken four years to complete, the online index has been assembled into one fully se
James R. Jones ...now there's a name I'd never heard until becoming addicted to family research.
Jamie, me bucko, you're my 3rd great grand pop on my dad's side of the clan. It's been great to meet you .... even if only through paper documents. A terrible shame it is that not one of the Heiterts of the last generation knew your story. Then again .... perhaps they did but decided to take the better part of caution. Trust me, Jamie; I never heard your name.
Now my mother ...that's Rosemary ...you've
I have run into a Brick wall with my 5th Great-Grandmother, Margaret "Maggie" Choulyn-Greyhorse. She was married to Johann "Hans" Harmon in 1760 in Virginia at the Peaked Mountain Church. It has been told through my family for generations that she was a Full-Blooded Cherokee Indian. She was born in 1734 in Tennessee to TWO unknown Cherokee Indians. She died in 1763 in Tennessee, shortly after the birth of her last children (triplets) Phillip, Philliphia & Unknown in Virginia.
CAN YOU HELP??
I’m looking for information on Robert West, who may have been my 3x great-grandfather. I’ve identified Robert as the father of William West, my great-great-grandfather based on two facts: 1) the Robert West family includes a William W. West in 1850 and 1860 in Polk County, Tennessee, and 2) William himself was enumerated as head of . . . → : CONTINUE READING
