This week I have not been very involved with my own family genealogy. I started classes again this week, so during the week I am very busy with them. However, this weekend, I did spend some time working on various genealogy related projects. On Saturday, I worked some more on a resource I’m putting together […]
I’m starting a new blog meme for myself – Music Mondays. Music is very important for me, so I thought it would be interesting to document various songs and their association with various events in the family through music. For my first music monday post, I’d like to share a song that was sung at
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Happy New Year everyone! With a new year comes a new theme for my blog. Here’s one of my cross-stitch projects to go along with the new theme. I finished this back in 2003. If you are reading this via a feed reader, come visit and take a look 🙂 I’ve also moved my main
Today I picked up the book, The Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America by Mamie Till-Mobley. Mamie is the mother of Emmett Till. I’ve blogged previously about a connection I share with Emmett Till – one of my maternal grandmother’s brothers married into the family of Moses Wright –
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With great help from the NC GenWeb state coordinators, I was able to convert the Martin County, NC site into a WordPress site today. I became county coordinator in October and while I started with a blog, I knew I wanted to do more with the site. I love the power and flexibility of WordPress
My last post on my mother’s uncle Lorenza was very well received by my family members. Two cousins as well as Lorenza’s aunt Martha (who is 80+ years old and sends email and is online!) also commented. Everyone seemed to really appreciate it. After that post, I digiscrapped a layout for him. The layout uses
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This is a post I’ve been wanting to write for a couple of years now as it was one of the most interesting history lessons I had early on when I started doing my genealogy in 2006. December 7th marks the anniversary of Pearl Harbor and my great-uncle, Lorenza McNair (1921-2005), was in the military
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On Saturday night, Randy shared on his blog his experience trying to locate the 1,000th person in his database, and invited us all to do the same. Well, I thought, this should be easy enough. Well, I found them, but it was not as straightfoward as I thought! I use TNG: The Next Generation of
a not so wordless post – this is the hall where one of my ancestral relatives, Dred Wimberly, represented Edgecombe County in the 1900 Republican National Convention. Source: Harvey, Charles M. Official Proceedings of the Twelfth Republican National Convention. 1900. Google Books. 22 Sept. 2008 <http://books.google.com/books?id=6SIQAAAAYAAJ
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My mother was born in 1951 and when she was born her family lived at 100 Brooklyn Avenue in Brooklyn, NY. Here is a picture of her uncle June, with her older brother Stanley that was taken around the time he was about 10 months old; my mother was not yet born. One day, my