The September 20, 1898 issue of the Charlotte Observer featured an article titled: “Negro Week in Edgecombe: Black Republican Convention.” As was often the case with some of these older articles, this is the overall synopsis– “Not a White Man in the Crowd — This is the set the White population are fussing with and […]
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No – not the Beatles singer. 🙂 My mother’s grandmother was named Lucinda Lennon Robinson. From census records, I knew that she had a brother named John but until a few days ago I did not know much about him except his approximate age as I’d only located him in two census records – 1880
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Today is the anniversary of the death of Kalonji’s great-grandmother, Betty Sanders. She was born July 16, 1901 in the Hebbardsville community of Henderson County, Kentucky and died on this day (June 23) in 1982 in Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana. Currently, the family is unsure of who Betty’s father may have been, but her SSA
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I make this post as a public apology to a certain researcher who has offered great insight into the research I’ve been doing on my Lennon line of Columbus County, NC. Back in April, I posted about how I’d cold called some possible Lennon relatives as I was trying to find more conclusive evidence/information that
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Being a librarian, I have been using a resource called WorldCat for about 10 years now, since I was in library school. In the past few years, the company that provides WorldCat has made it more open and available online for anyone to search and find out which libraries hold a book of particular interest.
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Yesterday in my Wordless Wednesday post, I put up a picture of the historical marker of Freedom Hill, North Carolina. Freedom Hill was an all African-American community established in Edgecombe County, North Carolina in 1865 by freed slaves. It is the oldest incorporated black town in the US, getting incorporated in 1885 as Princeville. The
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Randy has posted about his desire to have the ability to generate date-specific lists in genealogy software. So far, he’d been unsuccessful in locating a software program that gave him the ability to generate a list of people who had events on a certain day. For example, generate a list of people in his database
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In my last post, I expressed overjoyed delight at having learned that Ancestry had a new database of original death certificates from North Carolina that covers 1909-1975; a huge deal for me because I guesstimate that at least 70% of my personal family tree research is NC based. True to form for me, I spent
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Holy [EXPLETIVE DELTED]! 🙂 Why am I four days late to seeing that Ancestry has added this database – NC Death Certificates 1909-1975! Original death certificates! The Ancestry blog says this is an update, so I wonder how long it’s been there?? Apparently long enough for Joe to have it added on his page. Oh,
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