You know what makes for a great start to the new year? Being contacted by a distant cousin who found me via Google searching -yay! My newly-found cousin is a great-granddaughter of Richard Wimberly (1860-1921) & Lina Petway (1870-1963) of Tarboro, Edgecombe County, NC. Richard is a brother to my 3rd-great-grandmother Mariah Wimberly McNair (1843-1903). As […]
Today I give a hat tip to my cousin Marissa who followed up on a blog post of mine from last year. Back in November 2015 I blogged about a petition from Jones County, NC in 1847 that may have included slaves associated with my own family ancestry. In the petition, six white slaveholders, John S.
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It’s Election Day and I just had to do this post. This past weekend, the Reclaim the Records initiative announced their success in releasing the New York List of Registered Voters in 1924 – all of them now available online through the Internet Archive. And, it is absolutely wonderful to have! My own family has New
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A visit to the National Museum of African American History and Culture is high on my priority list for my next trip to DC. But, since I can’t yet get therein person, I have spent some time exploring their website and staying up-to-date via social media. I’m so proud to share with you my first
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Hat tip to DearMyrtle who shared news of Ancestry’s new app – We’re Related. The announcement stated that the app tells you what famous people you are related to – currently there are about 2,000 famous people in the database. Well, a very quick download later, the app told me I am related to President Harry
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This summer has been one that has brought multiple opportunities for me to further engage within the genealogy community and I’m so delighted! It has been a busy one for sure, but through these upcoming activities I will learn more and contribute at an even higher level to the genealogy community. I am pleased to
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Thanks to my cousin Marissa, I have my first pictures of my father’s paternal grandmother, Josephine Holloway Koonce. We believe the pictures to be from around 1940s. Here is one of them: Josephine passed away before I was born but I know that she had many of her grandchildren living her, including my aunts, as
As genealogists and family historians, many of us are interested in the use of DNA to help us in our research quests and have had our DNA tested by one or more of the major testing companies. Some of us have also been interested in what our DNA can inform us about our health. You
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Last week, as a way to help a non-profit in which my sister is involved, I offered to do genealogy reports for two people if they donated $50 or more. A deal I know! We created this wonderful ad to showcase the offer: It then turned out that the 1st winner of one of my
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A couple of years ago, I made the decision to ensure I had a robust method in place to ensure my genealogy research is preserved for future generations. I do have my own self-hosted family history website, but I decided to contribute as much as I can to FamilySearch Family Tree. Since making that decision for
My Family Treasure Boxes Read More »