Last week, soon after the release of the index for Delaware on the Ancestry.com website, I received my first green shaky leaf hint from the 1940 census! The hint was for a person in my McNair family tree, Ms. Carrie Lucille McNair Griffin (1919-2004). Carrie was a granddaughter of our family patriarch, Rufus Tannahill McNair, […]
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This morning I was quite happy to see that the US Community Project has shared information from societies participating in the indexing on their Society Dashboard. I am pleased that the group I’ve coordinated – the TNGenWeb Project, has placed 10th in the list of “large” societies! Our group currently has 36 members and they
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Today I am appearing on an episode of FGS Radio to discuss how WordPress can be used for your genealogical society website (or, historical society, family society, USGenWeb site, etc.). I am delighted to have this opportunity to share with anyone whose interested, my love of WordPress! The show starts at 2pm Eastern Time, and
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Over on the FamilySearch TechTips Blog, James Tanner has written a great article about the availability of newspapers that are becoming increasingly available online. I absolutely love his opening statement Throughout the world, local and national organizations, including governments, are realizing that much of their national heritage, culture and history has been chronicled in
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Yesterday I posted about my experiences with the first day of the census and I mentioned that I had no plans to seek out my family members while the images are still unindexed. Yeah – that didn’t hold out very long. Last night I downloaded a few ED sets from the NARA website around the
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This has been a fun day! With the release of the 1940 census there has been a lot of excitement among many to see the records. Technical glitches abounded online as unexpected demand crashed the NARA website but there was still plenty to do. What did I do? I made a half-hearted attempt to locate
I added a new icon to my sidebar this evening — the 1940 Census Ambassador Badge. I joined last week as I am going to be contributing to the creation of the index. So much has been made available online about the upcoming census that I will not rehash here. In short, when the census
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In my ongoing mission to seek the paternal lineage of Kalonji’s great-grandfather, Champ McClellan, I am another step closer tonight. My suspicion is that Champ is descended from a white slaveholder of his family – William Blount McClellan (1798-1881) – I like to call him “WB.” Thanks to the generosity of one of WB’s direct-male descendants,
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In light of the volunteer work I do with the TNGenWeb Project. A reporter in nearby Clarksville called me earlier this week and wanted to know more about our group. It was a great opportunity to further explain the project and our mission and I’m happy to have aided in some PR for us. You
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Had an urge tonight to update my Black Nashville Genealogy & History blog tonight, so check out the new design. I have not posted to that blog often at all in the past two years, but am going to try to work it back into my editorial calendar 🙂
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