In honor of Valentine’s day, let me share my own Valentine, my ancestor and 2nd-great-grandfather, Valentine Lawhorn. Valentine Lawhorn was born about 1830 in North Carolina, and by the 1870 census, lived in Craven County, North Carolina. I have not yet uncovered any information about who his parents may have been, and even trying to […]
On Monday, February 2, 2009, my great-aunt, Mrs. Hazel Koonce Harper, of Kinston, North Carolina passed away. She was 94 years old. I only have vague memories of meeting her, but I did have a chance to speak with her a couple of years ago about her family and she provided me with valuable information
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Another not so wordless post for Wordless Wednesday Who: Me 🙂 What: Showing off my favorite dress – I LOVED THIS DRESS! Where: Roswell suberb outside of Atlanta, Georgia where we were living at the time. When: Late spring 1989, end of my 9th grade year Why: Evening choir concert for my choir at school.
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At the beginning of this year, I updated the theme on this blog. Now I have just finished updating the look for my main genealogy site as well. I use TNG: The Next Generation for my site and find it to be a perfect match for what I need in a genealogy program. Up until
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Does it get any better than discovering there is (well, in my case, was) a genalogical society for your surname? This is an excerpt from the front page of the Koonce To Koonce newsletter of the Koonce Genealogical Society. I learned of the newsletter last month I think from a random internet search, and then
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This weekend I participated in my first Scanfest. It was fun! Though, I did do things a little unconventionally. I did not scan anything during the actual time frame, but instead, earlier that day, I scanned in some pages I photocopied when I visited the Tennesse State Library & Archives on Saturday. Here is an
This past week, my cousin was in town and I was able to spend time with her – it was great! “Spooky” is her nickname and we are about 7 years apart. Her mom and my grandmother were sisters and when I was younger, my brother and I used to spend weeks at a time
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Today, Obama took his train ride from Philadelphia to DC. I watched some of the footage online and while looking at it thought about my uncle. He drives for Amtrak and has in the past driven the route that Biden would take from Delaware to DC. He’s talked to Biden on occasion and tells our
Among my family papers file I have several items about people that I do not know, but who were known by my family members. I am sure many of us have such files too. I was looking through my files this evening and found a funeral program for Alberta LaSaine Williams. Alberta was a member
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One of my ancestors, my 2nd great-grandfather Andrew D. McNair, had two sets of children. With his first wife, Gracy Bullock, he had 5 children between 1894-1906. Gracy died between 1906-1910 and Andrew remarried to a woman named Bennie Slade. With Bennie he would have 5 more children between 1915-1923. Lossie Viola McNair Mason
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