My thanks go to one of my blog readers, Janette, for sharing this news with me – that the Tarboro, NC newspaper, The Daily Southerner, is going to cease publication. The blog of the National Genealogical Society has a post about it written by Diane Richard. If you’ve been reading my blog lately, you may have seen […]
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This blog post is part of a series about my trip to Plymouth, NC for the 44th Annual McNair Family Reunion. In first two posts of the series l described how I stopped in Rocky Mount while on the way to Plymouth. Next on the agenda was to see Tarboro. The reason I wanted to visit Tarboro
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This blog post is part of a series about my trip to Plymouth, NC for the 44th Annual McNair Family Reunion. In my last post I wrote about visiting the home of my 3rd – great grand uncle Dred Wimberly. Well, I also wanted to stop at nearby Unity Cemetery since this is where Dred is buried.
This blog post is part of a series about my trip to Plymouth, NC for the 44th Annual McNair Family Reunion. It was Saturday, May 24th and I was on my way to Plymouth for the family reunion. I was not only looking forward to being there, but also to the drive. The highway I
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This weekend, I had a chance to visit the Newberry Library in Chicago and I am so pleased I had the opportunity to visit! I was in town for business purposes – to deliver a presentation for work. However, I arrived early Saturday morning so that I could take advantage of the library being open
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My husband is giving me the BEST Mother’s Day present ever this year — he is sending me to Plymouth, NC so I can attend a family reunion that I’ve been wanting to attend for many years now. Plymouth, located in Washington County, NC – is the hometown of my late maternal grandmother, Alice McNair
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These past few weeks I’ve had the opportunity to engage in a rather interesting experiment. The hubby teaches at a local HBCU and in his course, Introduction to Africana Studies, we had the students do a family tree assignment. It was so interesting! Specifically, it was the first time I’ve ever put together an “official”
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Almost exactly one year ago, I posted about my initial excitement around being able to use FamilySearch’s Family Tree site. Here we are a year later and I am still very much a champion for the site and the model of collaborative genealogy that they are promoting. I’ve just finally gotten around to watching Ron Tanner’s 2014 RootsTech
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African-American Genealogy + Technology — a formula after my own heart! Over the past several months, fellow geneablogger Luckie Daniels, has been engaged in helping others really push forward with their slave-based genealogical research through the group African-American Genealogy and Slave Ancestor Research. One very important aspect of the groups efforts are to fully engage
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I just love making connections! Earlier this week, I received an email from another newly-found cousin. Her great-grandmother, Mary Donald Allen (1858-1916) was a sister to my 4th great-grandmother, Violetta Donald Kilpatrick (1860-1933). My cousin Rose and I have had a chance to speak and learn more about each other’s families and I am so
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