As I get started into this new year, I continue to remain focused on reducing the clutter I have in my genealogy files. A few days ago, I took some time to deconstruct a research binder I put together for a part of my genealogy research. This was a binder I initially created about 14 […]
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Today is my grandfather’s birthday – Herman Robinson. He died in 1986, but had he lived he would have been 84 years old today – born February 5, 1926 to Lewis “Christopher Columbus” Robinson & Lucinda Lennon in New York, New York. Herman was the 7th son of his parents; no children born in between
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“God is the color of water.” Do you know where that quote comes from? If you do, then you too have probably had the opportunity to absorb the life story of Ruth Shilsky McBride Jordan, mother of author James McBride and the topic of his best-selling book, The Color of Water. Written in 1996 the
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This past week has been filled with a lot of fun hunting for relatives of my stepmother. Her family reunion was this past weekend and I connected with a few of her family members who are also into genealogy. Then, I had a chance to make a quick trip to the Tennessee State Archives and
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Since my last post. Wow. Haven’t gone for that long of a stretch in awhile. Well, I haven’t exactly been focusing much on any genealogy these past couple of weeks. We went to Alabama a couple of weekends ago to visit Kalonji’s family and since we’ve come back, I’ve redirected my attention to my first