Growing up, my mother would always tell me – “you have a great-grandfather named Louis Christopher Columbus Robinson.” As I delved into my genealogy more in-depth, I learned more about him. Given the current timing with Columbus Day approaching, I thought this would be a good time to post about him and his middle name. […]
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I learned in an email I received today that Ancestry has added a new database that is of particular interest to me. The Kentucky Death Records, 1852-1953 database includes digitized images of the actual certificates! This is great news! So far, I’ve been able to get copies of the death certificates I needed from this
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This is a day late, but I want to still post it anyway. Yesterday was anniversary of the death of my great-grandfather, William Lawhorn. He was born August 12, 1910, one of five children of Samuel Becton Lawhorn and Cora Cox Lawhorn in Craven County, North Carolina. He married my great-grandmother, Pearlie Mae Kilpatrick in
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Over on the Official Google Blog the other day, they wrote about a website called DonorsChoose that allows teachers to submit ideas that they have for their students, but require funding. People wishing to donate, can then go to the site and choose from the database and contribute to a specific project. I decided to
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Over the past week, I’ve had occasion to drive through the Meharry neighborhood a couple of times, and each time I came across Pearl St, I thought to myself.. “that street looks familiar.” As I am transcribing my notes from researching the Merry’s , I figured out why. Napoleon Merry lived on Pearl Street! On
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I was reading Randy’s blog and saw that he took the 5 question challenge from the 24-7 Family History Circle blog. This will be a good way for me to get a post in, so I think I’ll participate too! 1. What was your favorite subject in school? My favorite subject was math. I particularly
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For my project on Mt. Ararat Cemetery, I’ve now added two more people in addition to Nelson G. Merry. I found his wife’s death certificate, Mary Jones Merry and though I saw no headstone for her, it does indicate that she is buried in the cemetery as well. I have also just added Albert Neely
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I continue to look for information on the family of Nelson Merry. I went to the Archives this afternoon and spent a few hours looking up sources. Today, I discovered the joys of using city directories! I’ve not used them in my own research yet, but as I was browsing the shelves in one of
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This weekend, my uncle found an old address book of my grandmother’s. My mother started calling people in it, just to touch base, and reconnected with a cousin of my grandmother’s that had wondered for the past six years what had happened to her! (My grandmother has Alzheimer’s now and lives in a nursing home).
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In my last post, I mentioned that I took a trip to Mount Ararat Cemetery in order to locate the tombstone of Rev. Nelson Grover Merry. Today after work, I went to the public library to get his obituary and I found it! His birth year in the obit is wrong (he was born in
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