Over the past several days, I’ve not been online quite as much to work on genealogy. My sister graduated college this weekend from the University of Florida (see my main blog), so that obviously kept me offline. 🙂 In addition, I began a course on research ethics and now I’ve got plenty of reading to […]
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One of the family trees I occasionally work on is that of my stepmother’s. Her family has a family reunion every two years and at the last reunion, I talked at length with a cousin of hers who also has a strong interest in the family tree. After the reunion, I also began helping him
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The oldest obituary that I have in my files is for one of my 2nd great-grandfathers, Randolph Kilpatrick. He lived from 1885 – 1966. The obituary was given to me by my grandmother many years ago. I’d always marveled over the fact that she had manged to hold onto the obituary for so many years
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Cold calls. Can be stimulating & nerve-wrecking at the same time. This is what I spent time on Saturday doing as I was in search for information about my Lennon ancestry. In my last post, I shared how I had been contacted by a woman researching the family of a Rufus McNair and how I
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Tonight was an interesting night. I received an email yesterday through Ancestry from someone seeking more information about my 3rd great-grandfather, Rufus Tannahill McNair. I’ve had the opportunity to speak with her and she has a collateral relative that married a Rufus McNair and is trying to figure out who her Rufus McNair may be.
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Even though the people involved in this post are more appropriate for my Black Nashville blog, I’m deciding to post it here because this project has been a highly complex task for me for which I am really having to use my research & analytical skills. I have previously posted a little bit of the
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Back in January, I received an email from Jennifer. Jennifer is another African-American Koonce descendant and she found my blog through some internet searching. She blogged about this on her own blog, But Now I’m Found. I was quite happy to hear from another black Koonce descendant! Her ancestry goes back to a slave named
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I attribute my initial interest in knowing my family history to my great-grandfather, Barfield Koonce. Barfield lived from March 15, 1886- April 10, 1953. I first learned of Barfield at the funeral of my aunt Ella’s funeral in 1984 when I was 9 years old. One of the headstones in the cemetery was Barfield’s and
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My grandmother, Alice McNair Robinson, used to go to church quite regularly and was a long-time member of the Church of God In Christ in Brooklyn, New York. Among the things my mother gave me after we moved grandma into her nursing home was this brochure from the church from 1954. In typical fashion for
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Yesterday, I learned of a new digital collection being offered online. The HBCU Digital Collection was launched last month and is the beginning of a digital archive of materials from 10 historically black colleges and universities. The information in the Digital Library contains a variety of items – including “campus charters, student yearbooks, early campus
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