During the July 4th weekend, I was so fortunate to be able to visit eastern NC again to visit my father’s hometown, Fort Barnwell and my maternal grandmother’s hometown, Plymouth, NC. My visit to Fort Barnwell was my first time back since my paternal grandmother, Cora Lawhorn Koonce, passed away in 2006. So, I visited […]
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Last month over the Memorial Day weekend, I attended the 45th annual reunion of my McNair family in Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina. I was honored to be asked to speak to the family during the family church service on that Sunday. It was such a great experience! I put together a presentation to distribute
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At the family reunion one of my cousins shared this photo with me. It is a picture of Winnie Willis Walker. Winnie was this grandmother’s cousin, but she was also married to my 2nd great-grandfather, Anthony Walker. Anthony was her 2nd marriage – her 1st marriage was to Charles Willis. Many thanks to my cousin. What a
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Each Memorial Day Weekend my maternal grandmother’s family comes together for the McNair Family Reunion in Plymouth, North Carolina. This year, is the 45th year and I’m so pleased to be going again! My first time going was last year. Initially, I’d planned to do a whole series of blog posts about the trip, but
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Yeah for 23andMe! Today I had a new connection – a 2nd cousin for Kalonji’s grandmother, Frances. Frances passed away in August at 89 years old, so we are especially grateful for this new cousin. Her match wrote back to me today and told me who her grandmother was and I was quickly able to
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This past week, I’ve had a most glorious time getting stared with the free online genealogy course, RootsMOOC. If you haven’t heard of it, you must go check it out for it’s not too late to join! Currently, there are more than 3300 people who have signed up and the 1st week has been exhilarating!
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I have to share this cool news! For the TNGenWeb project I’ve done a blog post about a new beta version of a tool that FamilySearch is making available. The new tool (once it is out of beta) will make it easy to index their image-only collections “on-demand,” as well as creating an opportunity for
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For some time now, I’ve given though to recording my family members talking about their memories. However, I’d not taken the time to look into how I could record phone calls. For me, phone calls are going to be the best chance I have of making it happen. Last week, one of my geneabuddies, Brenda, posted
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Every now and then, I like to change up the theme I use here on my blog. Last year, I skipped my update, but it’s been bugging me for awhile now, so I finally updated it. The new theme of choice is called “Leather Diary” and I like it! The theme layout gives me more
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Late last year, Thomas MacEntee announced his new genealogy journey for the year, a genealogy do-over, and I loved the idea! The Genealogy Do-Over is an opportunity to re-visit your research processes and work diligently to improve upon the foundation you’ve created. So, as I enter my 10th year of serious genealogical research, I too
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