A piece of advice I like to share with those researching their families is to go after all the vital records you can! Online indexes can be helpful – but getting the actual record is important for many reasons. Last week, my geneafriend, Renate Yarborough-Sanders, and I held the first session of a summer series […]
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Earlier this month, at my genealogy society’s annual Show & Tell (the Nashville Chapter of the Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society), I chose to share a story of how a blog post I made resulted in great additional knowledge about a family member! In April 2017, I blogged a discovery I made about the wife
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It’s Week 3 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks series and this week’s prompt is “Longevity.” For this prompt, I decided to check my genealogy database and find the longest-living person. I use TNG: The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding for my primary software program and it is easy to run statistics and find the longest-living
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This past weekend I attended the monthly meeting of the Middle Tennessee Genealogical Society. The guest speaker was Williamson County Historian, Rick Wallace. Mr. Wallace is a walking trove of history and it was immediately clear why he is indeed the county historian! His presentation covered a series of books & publications that document the
New On My Bookshelf: Williamson County, TN Freedmen’s Bureau Labor Contracts Read More »
You know what makes for a great start to the new year? Being contacted by a distant cousin who found me via Google searching -yay! My newly-found cousin is a great-granddaughter of Richard Wimberly (1860-1921) & Lina Petway (1870-1963) of Tarboro, Edgecombe County, NC. Richard is a brother to my 3rd-great-grandmother Mariah Wimberly McNair (1843-1903). As
Today is the 30th anniversary of the Challenger explosion which killed Ronald Ervin McNair and six other astronauts. My maternal grandmother was a McNair and from time to time various family members ask if he is related to us. It’s been awhile since I searched, but I today I went back further on his paternal
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Last month over the Memorial Day weekend, I attended the 45th annual reunion of my McNair family in Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina. I was honored to be asked to speak to the family during the family church service on that Sunday. It was such a great experience! I put together a presentation to distribute
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My thanks go to one of my blog readers, Janette, for sharing this news with me – that the Tarboro, NC newspaper, The Daily Southerner, is going to cease publication. The blog of the National Genealogical Society has a post about it written by Diane Richard. If you’ve been reading my blog lately, you may have seen
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This blog post is part of a series about my trip to Plymouth, NC for the 44th Annual McNair Family Reunion. In first two posts of the series l described how I stopped in Rocky Mount while on the way to Plymouth. Next on the agenda was to see Tarboro. The reason I wanted to visit Tarboro
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This blog post is part of a series about my trip to Plymouth, NC for the 44th Annual McNair Family Reunion. It was Saturday, May 24th and I was on my way to Plymouth for the family reunion. I was not only looking forward to being there, but also to the drive. The highway I
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