Jet Magazine has such a long and established history in African-American culture. I’ve been reading it since I was young. So, imagine how tickled I was when invited to be interviewed by Deanna Martin -Osuagwu for a piece she wrote about African-American genealogy bloggers. After answering a few questions for her, she crafted mine, and […]
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Earlier this month I had another cousin connection that I’ve not been able to blog about until now. Gotta love the internet! My cousin, CM, found me and contacted me through this blog. One of his great-grandfathers is named Grant Lennon. Grant was from Columbus County, North Carolina and a son of Council Lennon. One
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Last month, 23andMe announced improvements to their Ancestry features, and I can now get a more specific breakdown of my Sub-Saharan African ancestry than I was previously able. With this update, I can see that 83.4% of my DNA is mapping to West African ancestry, with another .7% Central African and 1.4% coming up as
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I’m a huge fan of the work that is done by the CommonCraft team – Lee and Sachi. For several years now, they’ve blessed the internetz with fabulous explanation videos. As their tagline says – their product is “explanation.” Their whiteboard animation process really sparked a movement and we now see these types of videos
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Genealogy is all about location right? Well, what better way to map out the coverage of my genealogy book collection than to try and use Pinterest’s new Place Pins feature announced earlier this week. While, I could of course, use Google Maps to do this, Pinterest has a strong visual component that I believe makes
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I love it when I have cousin connections! My most recent one has come via Facebook. Earlier this week, I received a Facebook friend request from (whom I’ll call JS). I looked at his profile and noticed we had three mutual friends in common. Two of the mutual friends were cousins of my father. The
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Approximately 18 months ago I started using Evernote; that is, seriously using it. It took me awhile to jump on the bandwagon because I am a Google Drive user and I found GDrive to be meeting my needs. At the same time though, I wanted to make sure I knew how to use Evernote and
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This is so cool – I’m featured in the cover article of a national genealogy magazine – FGS Forum! FORUM is a publication of the Federation of Genealogical Societies and in their latest issue one of my projects for the TNGenWeb is highlighted. The article is based on an interview I did with Thomas MacEntee
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This is one of my great-great-uncles – Jesse Kilpatrick Sr (October 23, 1931- September 25, 1995). He was a brother of my great-grandmother, Pearlie Mae Kilpatrick Lawhorn. I never met him, but he shares a birthday with my sister.
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Love this picture! A colorized photo by Dinamichrome. circa 1939. Makes me think about what it could have been like for my family who knew the family of a work colleague of mine. That work colleague’s family member owned the local country store that my family frequented. I blogged about their connection as I learned
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