Over the holiday weekend, I made DH take me to two local cemeteries so I could take a few pictures for Find-A-Grave. We didn’t stay long – about an hour combined, but during that time I got many pictures for uploading. Perhaps my favorite part of the whole experience was how involved Kaleya (who will […]
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Well now! Here’s another example of how much penetration genealogy is getting. As I was uploading a document to Scribd.com, I saw that they have now added a designation under their Research category for genealogy! That was not there a few weeks ago when I last uploaded a document and needless to say I
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After talking to my mother for this week’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun post, we began to talk about other things from the past and I asked her a question about one of the houses we used to live in when I was a child. I remembered this house, particularly because it was next to a
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Thanks everyone who commented on the NCGenWeb redesign and all of my other crazy activities. Over the past couple of days I’ve continued to work on NCGenWeb “stuff” and am quite excited by all that is developing. As I take the time to futther explore more of the county sites, I am finding information
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Very near to where I live right now is an old house with a historic marker out front. Next door is an old cemetery with some beautiful tombstones. I’ve been driving by this house for months, always curious what the marker says and who is in the cemetery. So, yesterday, Kalonji and I finally stopped.
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Last weekend we went to Talladega and I took pictures at the cemetery where Kalonji’s great-grandfather, Champ McClellan is buried. The cemetery is across the street from the house that Champ’s mother lived in and where Kalonji’s uncle currently lives at now, just off McClellan street. The cemetery, McClellan Cemetery, had no entries in FindAGrave,
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This must really be the week of the Merrys because I had another great find today! I received a notice in my email today that the Nashville Public Library posted an online index to a listing of more than 19,000 names of people buried in the Old Nashville Cemetery. The listings are drawn from a
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I write this blog post from the Talladega College Library. This was not my intention. We came to Talladega this weekend to visit Kalonji’s grandmother and I thought, great! I can go to the public library when we get to town and do some genealogy research on the McClellans! However, upon getting to the library,
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Over the weekend, I have become intrigued by the history of Mt. Ararat cemetery here in Nashville. The cemetery was the first African-American cemetery in the city. I started to become interested in it because over the weekend I’ve been looking up information about Nelson G. Merry – a very prominent former slave who led
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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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