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Six months completed

I now have gone through six months of issues of the Roanoke Beacon newspaper for the blog. I have done up until the end of 1889. Starting in a few weeks, I’ll begin to work on 1890 – maybe I can finish that year within a few months. Since I’m not posting everything, I find […]

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Anniversary of a Wedding

Yesterday was also the day my parents got married – January 18, 1975. I was there 🙂 (okay – me as a fetus was there!) A few months ago, I asked them questions about the ceremony because one day, I plan to do a scrapbook page about it. My parents got married in New York.

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Happy Birthday Calvin!

I missed posting this yesterday, but yesterday would have been my uncle Calvin’s 49th birthday. He died back in 1994, but was my mother’s youngest brother and the baby of the crew. While I did not know Calvin all that well growing up, when I was about 13, he moved back in with my grandmother

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I am intrigued by Prosper

Last night while transcribing the Roanoke Beacon newspaper, I came upon an entry that was a death notice for a former slave named Prosper Armistead. There were two tributes in this particular issue for him and as the paper identified who his slave owner was, I felt compelled to look up Prosper in the census.

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Another Generation!

Whipee!! My 3rd great-grandmother’s death certificate arrived today (the one whom I previously posted that I learned she was Native American) and it has her parents’ names as Stephen & Susan Donald. I’m off to search the census records now! Update 5 minutes later: I found them! I did some searches using the last name

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A Slave Owner!

Can it be true? Tonight, I talked on the phone with a lady who is a distant cousin of mine. She found my family tree in Ancestry and emailed me – I am her 4th cousin once removed. As we talked, she shared some of her lineage. Her great-grandmother was the sister to a great-great

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This is addicting

Now that I have worked out the format for how I want to do these newspaper transcriptions, this is addicting! I started on another paper – the Talladega Daily Home of Talladega, Alabama. A few months ago, I ordered one roll of microfilm covering the last half of 1961 as I was looking for the

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I’m on Cyndi’s List

I submitted a link to my Nashville Globe Blog to Cyndi’s List and it was posted to the new section on the 18th! Whoo-hoo! Now, the drawback is that the “new” list has a long waiting period before incorporation into the actual site – on the order of three years!

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Only One Issue?

I have just finished transcribing a lot of content from the January 18, 1907 issue of the Nashville Globe, and I already have over 40 posts. Wow. That’s a lot of content! But, I am hopeful that it will be forever cached and available long-term to those who seek it. Tomorrow, I shall start on

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The Tennessee State Archives

I have just returned from the Tennessee State Archives here in Nashville and had some great finds! I first went to the archives last weekend as I was able to steal away a few hours to go. My primary reason for going there was to do some research for my friend on her family tree

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