Tonight I was so pleased to see in my email inbox another acceptance of one of my genome sharing requests. When I logged onto 23andMe and saw the persons details, I started to get excited. I have thought of all kinds of ways to tell the story here on my blog and none of them […]
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A few weeks ago I had a chance to see in person the book, Edgecombe County Heritage, North Carolina, 1735-2009. I was thrilled to see in print my contribution to the book that I submitted in 2008. I contributed an article on my McNair ancestry, going back to my 3rd-great grandfather Rufus Tannahill McNair and
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Back in June, through the kind assistance of a researcher in North Carolina, I was sent photos of the headstones and home of the brother of one of my 3rd great-grandmothers. This is Dred Wimberly and his wife Ellen Bertha (Jenkins) Wimberly. They are buried in Unity Cemetery in Rocky Mount, NC and their home
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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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Last night I received an email from a woman descended from an Annie McNair Dancy McCriddic. She has found from Annie’s death certificate that her father was named William McNair. William was born in North Carolina, and Annie was born specifically in Tarboro, Edgecombe County. Today I called her and we had a great conversation
I knew it was a mistake to get back on the computer after I *said* I was going to bed. But, I had to check the email and feed readers “one last time.” Well, now it’s going to cause me to be up long enough to do this blog post, but I couldn’t wait because what
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A couple of days ago, I discovered a new genealogy blog – Robyn’s blog, Reclaiming Kin. I found her through Randy’s “Best Of the Genea-Blogs” post from Sunday. Well, yesterday she posted on using court records for research and her experience of looking at records in Edgecombe County, NC inspired my Tombstone Tuesday post of
This is my first Tombstone Tuesday post and since I had the perfect opportunity to do one, I thought I would. This is the tombstone of Kemp Plummer Battle Sr. Kemp was what you would call a “prominent” North Carolinian; he was highly active and involved in many matters of the state, including serving
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a not so wordless post – this is the hall where one of my ancestral relatives, Dred Wimberly, represented Edgecombe County in the 1900 Republican National Convention. Source: Harvey, Charles M. Official Proceedings of the Twelfth Republican National Convention. 1900. Google Books. 22 Sept. 2008 <http://books.google.com/books?id=6SIQAAAAYAAJ
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To being able to be the North Carolina GenWeb Site Coordinator for one of my main counties of interest, Edgecombe County, North Carolina! Turns out someone beat me to the punch to request it when a notice was sent out that the county was adoptable. I have roots there and just submitted a profile to