This week, I traveled to DC for business and on my way to the airport, took a quick visit to Arlington National Cemetery. I went to the cemetery with one purpose truly, to go to the grave site of Henry A. Greene. Henry, is the grandfather of a woman I met a few weeks ago […]
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Just a quick post to tell you all to go check my guest post over on Lisa Lisson’s blog – Are You My Cousin?. My post talks about the use of the Slave Narratives for genealogy research. Go check out your girl at http://lisalisson.com/2016/02/19/using-the-slave-narratives-for-african-american-research/. 🙂
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Today is the 30th anniversary of the Challenger explosion which killed Ronald Ervin McNair and six other astronauts. My maternal grandmother was a McNair and from time to time various family members ask if he is related to us. It’s been awhile since I searched, but I today I went back further on his paternal
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On this day in 1994, my mother’s youngest brother, Calvin Earl Robinson passed away. The last post I made about Calvin, in 2008, was to share the news that we finally had a picture of his headstone thanks to the graciousness of a Find-A-Grave volunteer. Now, I’m pleased to show off his NEW headstone which
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Instead of doing a written blog post, I decided to do a video to give my update on the Genealogy Do-Over this past year. Read about it on my blog post from last year for the background. My focus has been a bit different than most, as my goals are to use the Do-Over as an
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This past weekend, I had the opportunity to be interviewed by Lisa Louise Cooke for the Family Tree Magazine monthly podcast! The theme of November’s episode is about busting through brick walls and Lisa interviewed me for a segment covering resources from the magazine’s 101 Best Websites list. Listen to Lisa, myself, and her other
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Okay, I wasn’t featured, but one of my projects was! I’ve just written a blog post for the TNGenWeb project describing how one of our Special Projects was included in a presentation at the National Newspaper Digitization Program’s annual meeting. The NNDP is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and this past
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Back in 2009, I wrote about a day of Koonce-hunting in Lincoln County, TN with my buddy John P. Koonce. Yesterday, we were able to continue the adventure and an adventure it was indeed!!! John was joined by his nephew Dan and the primary purpose of our trip was to look for the Grills-Koonce cemetery
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Over the July 4th weekend, one of the activities I did during my vacation was attend part of the 2nd Annual Kilpatrick Family Reunion in Ft. Barnwell, NC. My paternal grandmother, Cora, was the daughter of William Lawhorn and Pearlie Mae “Julie” Kilpatrick. So, the reunion is for Pearlie’s family. When I was much younger, we used
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Yay! I’ve got another article published in FGS Forum on using WordPress for genealogical society websites. If you are an FGS member or subscribe to the journal, be sure to go check it out! In the article, I’ve focused on providing real-life examples of how I’ve used WordPress across the many USGenWeb websites I’ve worked
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