I really need to go to bed, but I just had to post this! I was sneaking a peek in GenealogyBank.com tonight and noticed that they have made some enhancements to their search interface for the Historical Newspapers Collection. When you go to the search screen, you are shown several new search options that […]
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This past week or so has been especially rewarding for me – as I’ve had a cluster of activity around my Koonce surname. In these past several days I’ve spoken to the daughter of my great-aunt that recently passed away, spoken to two Koonce descendants who also have ties to Lenoir & Craven counties in
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Does it get any better than discovering there is (well, in my case, was) a genalogical society for your surname? This is an excerpt from the front page of the Koonce To Koonce newsletter of the Koonce Genealogical Society. I learned of the newsletter last month I think from a random internet search, and then
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In my last post, I expressed overjoyed delight at having learned that Ancestry had a new database of original death certificates from North Carolina that covers 1909-1975; a huge deal for me because I guesstimate that at least 70% of my personal family tree research is NC based. True to form for me, I spent
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Back in January, I received an email from Jennifer. Jennifer is another African-American Koonce descendant and she found my blog through some internet searching. She blogged about this on her own blog, But Now I’m Found. I was quite happy to hear from another black Koonce descendant! Her ancestry goes back to a slave named
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I attribute my initial interest in knowing my family history to my great-grandfather, Barfield Koonce. Barfield lived from March 15, 1886- April 10, 1953. I first learned of Barfield at the funeral of my aunt Ella’s funeral in 1984 when I was 9 years old. One of the headstones in the cemetery was Barfield’s and
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My grandfather, William J. Koonce Jr, pictured here with my grandmother Cora in the 1970’s, died 31 years ago on January 1, 1976. He died as a result of a car accident on the Major Deegan Expressway in NYC. I’d always known this growing up, and also always known that he had been drinking that
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I just spent some time researching some of the white Koonce lineages I’m tracking for possible slaveholder relationships. Tonight, I found maps in Wikipedia of Lenoir, Craven and Jones counties of North Carolina and merged the three together. This helps me have a better visual for determining locations. Locations are important to me as I
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As I do my research on the white Koonce family, I was recently contacted by a person who shares ancestry with an ancestor of JCB Koonce (of Jones County, North Carolina). Interestingly enough, the person that contacted me is also a descendant of one of the families I’ve gathered a little bit of information on
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