Since I’ve been rather busy this past week (as well as in a little pain), I am just now catching up on most of my genealogy blog reading. Last night I was reading about the Genea-Blogger games and thought it would be neat to participate, but I’d missed the deadline. Well, apparently not! So, I […]
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Today would have been the 100th birthday of my mother’s paternal aunt, Ethel Robinson Rose. Ethel was born August 8, 1908 in Wilmington, North Carolina to Lewis “Christopher Columbus” Robinson and Lucinda (Lennon) Robinson. She was their first of what would be eventually 9 children. As I review my records for Ethel, I see that
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Over the past week or so, I’ve not felt particularly inspired to do much blog posting. I have been working on my family tree (and others) over this time, but nothing has really jumped out at me to blog about. But, I have been enjoying myself. Just today, I found a connection that my stepfather
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With all the fanfare around the launch of the Cuil.com search engine, I was planning to spend a little time exploring the site. In all of 5 minutes earlier today, I had formed my initial impressions of it – that I’m not sure I like it. But, that could be me being hasty and not
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Welcome to the new blog location! I decided to move my blog to my own web server so please update your links and bookmarks accordingly. Why the move? I needed additional flexibility in the look of my blog. When hosted on WordPress’s site, I am limited to small selection of themes. Now, I have hundreds
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A few months ago, I read an announcement that a new Heritage book was coming out for one of the counties that I have roots in – Edgecombe County, North Carolina. My McNair family line goes back (as far as I can trace it), to Rufus Tannahill McNair and his wife Mariah Wimberly McNair of
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I haven’t been working on my own family genealogy much this past two weeks or so – we’ve been rather busy and I’ve been devoting quite a bit of time to a few other genealogy projects; but, tonight I took a few minutes to play around on Footnote’s website. I mentioned a couple of posts
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This past week, I’ve had all of my stepsons visiting. We had a very busy week. Part of our activities this week was to get them watching Roots. I love this series and the book. But, I also have some great disappointment today that I am pondering over. Yesterday, I went to the state archives and
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In an earlier post, I mentioned that I’d established a blogging schedule for myself in order to help me ensure that each of my blogs received at least a little bit of love throught the month. I used this schedule all through the month of June and it has worked well for me. I have
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In follow-up to my post earlier this week on Kalonji’s great-grandmother Betty, I was indeed able to go to the cemetery today and take a picture of her headstone. The Oak Hill Cemetery here in Evansville maintains a database of all those buried there, so they make it rather convenient to locate your loved ones.
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