Love this picture! A colorized photo by Dinamichrome. circa 1939. Makes me think about what it could have been like for my family who knew the family of a work colleague of mine. That work colleague’s family member owned the local country store that my family frequented. I blogged about their connection as I learned […]
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Yesterday I posted about my experiences with the first day of the census and I mentioned that I had no plans to seek out my family members while the images are still unindexed. Yeah – that didn’t hold out very long. Last night I downloaded a few ED sets from the NARA website around the
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I am elated to share another cousin match story from my 23andMe results! This time it’s even more interesting because said cousin (i”ll call her DK) has been following my blog for several months, saw my posts about the free 23andMe testing, and ordered her kit because of it. But, while she knew she was
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Tonight, the 23andMe results have come back for a relative of mine – a gentleman for whom I am his 3rd cousin once removed. At this point in time, his Relative Finder results are not back but his daughter and I spoke this evening about his results and we learned some interesting things! Of
Isariah – I Know Your Lineage Read More »
Back in 1997, my paternal grandmother Cora, gave me some family documents that she had in her possession. One was a copy of court proceedings about my grandfather’s death that I’ve blogged about before. Another, is the oldest funeral program that I have in my all of my family files. The obituary is for Randolph
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Sunday afternoon I was reading Susan Petersen’s post on her Long Lost Relatives blog about how to make the most use of Find-A-Grave. It’s a useful article and while I do most of what she discusses, as I read it, I was inspired to create the memorial for my grandmother that just passed away on
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I love when I come across small gems. One of my side projects is to index names from the North Carolina college yearbooks that the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center has been actively adding online. I do this to put them in a searchable database for the NCGenWeb Project. Along the way, I find people of
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I can’t believe I’m only getting around to posting this, but last week I had a great connection on my Koonce ancestry. I was contacted by a distant cousin after she saw my great-grandfather, Barfield Koonce, on my tree on Ancestry.com. She sent me a message and we were able to speak the same night
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The topic of the first Carnival of African-American Genelaogy prompts us all to consider our individual roles in slave research. Luckie, our gracious carnival host, provides four topic areas to choose from for this initial go-round. I have chosen to blog about the following: As a descendant of slaves, have you been able to
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Just a quick post this time, but I’ve had so many connections come out the woodwork this week from sharing family tree information online it’s been crazy. got an email from a possible cousin based on her husband’s lineage from former slaves on the Kemp P. Battle plantation in Edgecombe County, NC where my 4th
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