Today would have been my aunt Ella’s 50th birthday. She was born May 22, 1957 in Lenoir County, North Carolina and was my father’s youngest sister. I have very fond and clear memories of Ella, she died when I was 9 years old, in 1984. She had one daughter, my cousin Aiesha. One of the […]
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After visiting the Tennessee State Library and Archives again today, I have more information to help me in figuring out the trees for the white families I’m researching. Some of the goodies: Onslow Register: Records of Onslow and Jones County Citizens and Related Families by Kammerer & Carptenter (1984) – contains some court proceedings, births,
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ILL is so cool. I should know, I’m a librarian 🙂 Today, our branch library received the book that I’d requested through Interlibrary Loan – The History and Genealogy of Jones County, North Carolina. I’d ordered this book as the Koonce family I’m researching is of Jones County. This book is so cool! The way
Okay – here is a summary of what I retrieved today at the TN State Archives. Today I focused on Edgecombe County, NC where I am most heavily researching my McNair, Wimberly and Tannahill surnames as I look for possible slave owners. 1. I have a few counties photocopied from Somebody Knows My Name, but
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Last month, I ordered microfilm of the newspaper from Kinston, NC (my father is from outside of Kinston). I ordered the microfilm b/c I have many, many relatives from the outskirts of Kinston, that while technically in a different county, still seem to be missing (well, obits anyway) from that county’s newspapers. So, I figured
I think I have finally found Barfield Koonce’s mother! Barfield was my great grandfather and the beginning of my interest in my family genealogy. When my aunt died back in 1984 (I was 9 at the time), she was buried in Mitchell Cemetery – where I would then learn that we had a lot of
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Yesterday was also the day my parents got married – January 18, 1975. I was there 🙂 (okay – me as a fetus was there!) A few months ago, I asked them questions about the ceremony because one day, I plan to do a scrapbook page about it. My parents got married in New York.
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Tonite, I made contact with another cousin of mine. Her grandfather and my grandfather were brothers! I found a post that she made online a few years ago, but the email address was no longer valid. So, I asked my father if he knew the name and he and my aunt told me who she
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I don’t think I’ve had any major discoveries in my own family genealogy as of late. I just continue to request certificates to add to my files. The other day, I received my paternal grandfather’s death certificate. He died 1/1/76 in a car crash and all the information on there was info I already knew.
Last night brought some more information! I received two emails in response to some posts I made on Ancestry that yielded some beneficial information. 1) Someone was able to send me a list of marriages of persons of color from the book Somebody Knows My Name by Barbara McGhee White. In the list is the