In previous posts, I’ve shared the work I am doing to organize my photos – both physical and digital, including historical and present-day photos. A great joy for me in that process has been visiting with all of the pictures in my collection, talking with my family and friends about our photos, and just having […]
My Parents’ Baby Photos Read More »
I received the most incredible email yesterday! Mr. Eddie Ellis Jr., A historian of Havelock, NC in Craven County, NC shared with me incredible details about a family member of mine. That family member is Rev. Wright L. Lawhorn and he was a brother of my 2nd great-grandfather, Samuel Becton Lawhorn. We are fortunate to
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Yesterday, I was delighted to present a session on Researching African American Family History & Genealogy on behalf of the Nashville Chapter of the Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society. This is our fourth year partnering with Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage to conduct part of their Black History Month programming and it went well! We had a
In the Census: I’m Ready for 1950 Read More »
Props to the DigitalNC group for my discovery tonight! As I was updating my family tree information for my relative Reverend Wright L. Lawhorn, I decided to do some more searching for him. Wright was a brother to my great-great-grandfather, Samuel Becton Lawhorn. When I started the evening, I did not have much information about
And Now I Know Why Read More »
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
A New Family Branch Genetically Tested Read More »
I love it when I have cousin connections! My most recent one has come via Facebook. Earlier this week, I received a Facebook friend request from (whom I’ll call JS). I looked at his profile and noticed we had three mutual friends in common. Two of the mutual friends were cousins of my father. The
New Cousin Connection x 2! Read More »
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
My First 1940 Census Find Read More »
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
Connections Like Wildfire Read More »
Tonight’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun prompts us to recall a day from when we were 12 years old. 1) Remember when you were 12 years old? On a summer day out of school? What memory do you have of fun activities? 2) Tell us about that memory (just one – you can do more later
SNGF: Remember When? Read More »
I’ve never participated in the Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories before, so this will be fun for me this year. I won’t be doing all the days, but I’ll do some as I can. I am beginning to get in the Christmas spirit as I look at some of my old pictures, so this should
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