Yesterday brought great news from my cousin SL! She did a 23andMe test a few weeks ago and her test results have come in. I am particularly happy she did the test as I can now map parts of my father’s DNA sample specifically to his mother as cousin SL is a 1st cousin on […]
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Over the July 4th weekend, one of the activities I did during my vacation was attend part of the 2nd Annual Kilpatrick Family Reunion in Ft. Barnwell, NC. My paternal grandmother, Cora, was the daughter of William Lawhorn and Pearlie Mae “Julie” Kilpatrick. So, the reunion is for Pearlie’s family. When I was much younger, we used
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During the July 4th weekend, I was so fortunate to be able to visit eastern NC again to visit my father’s hometown, Fort Barnwell and my maternal grandmother’s hometown, Plymouth, NC. My visit to Fort Barnwell was my first time back since my paternal grandmother, Cora Lawhorn Koonce, passed away in 2006. So, I visited
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I just love making connections! Earlier this week, I received an email from another newly-found cousin. Her great-grandmother, Mary Donald Allen (1858-1916) was a sister to my 4th great-grandmother, Violetta Donald Kilpatrick (1860-1933). My cousin Rose and I have had a chance to speak and learn more about each other’s families and I am so
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This is one of my great-great-uncles – Jesse Kilpatrick Sr (October 23, 1931- September 25, 1995). He was a brother of my great-grandmother, Pearlie Mae Kilpatrick Lawhorn. I never met him, but he shares a birthday with my sister.
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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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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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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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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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