Lately, as I’ve been considering my transcription blogs, I’ve been thinking of how to handle copyrighted material. I am a librarian after all and I must adhere to copyright! For the Roanoke Beacon and the Nashville Globe, I am currently okay. The content I’ve posted is public domain as far as I can ascertain from […]
Yeah! I got a new all-in-one printer this past week. I can now finally scan all my documents that I send away for, so I have been busy doing that these past few days. My other printer developed a short in the power cord, so I’ve been without a scanner/printer for months. Do you know
I’ve found another former slave that I’m interested in researching. Yesterday, I went to the Tennessee State Library & Archives and looked through a book that abstracted wills from Edgecombe County, North Carolina. I am on a hunt to figure out if I can find the slaveowner of my ancestor Rufus Tannahill McNair who was
Last night while transcribing the Roanoke Beacon newspaper, I came upon an entry that was a death notice for a former slave named Prosper Armistead. There were two tributes in this particular issue for him and as the paper identified who his slave owner was, I felt compelled to look up Prosper in the census.
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I submitted a link to my Nashville Globe Blog to Cyndi’s List and it was posted to the new section on the 18th! Whoo-hoo! Now, the drawback is that the “new” list has a long waiting period before incorporation into the actual site – on the order of three years!
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If you’re into genealogy, no doubt that you’ve heard the story of the uncovering of the real Annie Moore, the first immigrant to arrive through Ellis Island. When the news came out about this last month, I read some info about it, but didn’t bother to read in-depth about it all. Tonite, I have just
My family history site is now included in Google! 🙂 I have a suspicion this is how my cousin recently found me!
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When I really started reading genealogy sites online, I would often see stories and accounts of people finding cousins through their online searching. Well, in the past couple of months, I’ve located some too! Just yesterday a second cousin of mine found my family site and emailed me. A few weeks ago, I found a
I received some goodies in the mail today – more certificates and obituaries that I’d ordered. I was looking at the newspaper obituary for my paternal great-grandmother and it says that she had 47 grandchildren. In looking at my files, I see that I only have 28 listed. Who are these other grandchildren?? I know
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I meant to put this in my post from yesterday, but I’ll just make it a separate post for now.. Earlier this week, I talked to a great-great uncle of mine and he shared with me some family history. His mother was essentially orphaned as a child. This much I knew. But what I did