Earlier this month, at my genealogy society’s annual Show & Tell (the Nashville Chapter of the Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society), I chose to share a story of how a blog post I made resulted in great additional knowledge about a family member! In April 2017, I blogged a discovery I made about the wife […]
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Back in March of 2014, I blogged about a set of medical appointment cards that my maternal grandmother kept throughout her lifetime (note – most of the images in that post are broken – I need to fix that). The cards are amazing if you ask me, because while they appear, at first, to just
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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
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As Amy Johnson Crow begins her 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks series this year, I finally decided to take the plunge and participate! The goal of the series is to do something with the genealogy research that I, and so many others, obsess about 🙂 ; to make it more interactive and dynamic than just
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Today is the 30th anniversary of the Challenger explosion which killed Ronald Ervin McNair and six other astronauts. My maternal grandmother was a McNair and from time to time various family members ask if he is related to us. It’s been awhile since I searched, but I today I went back further on his paternal
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Last month over the Memorial Day weekend, I attended the 45th annual reunion of my McNair family in Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina. I was honored to be asked to speak to the family during the family church service on that Sunday. It was such a great experience! I put together a presentation to distribute
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Each Memorial Day Weekend my maternal grandmother’s family comes together for the McNair Family Reunion in Plymouth, North Carolina. This year, is the 45th year and I’m so pleased to be going again! My first time going was last year. Initially, I’d planned to do a whole series of blog posts about the trip, but
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My grandmother Alice kept a lot of stuff. But, this is by far one of the most interesting collection of hers that we have and I’ve learned so much by going through them – a set of medical clinic appointment cards for herself and her four kids! Most of the cards are not dated, but
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My husband is giving me the BEST Mother’s Day present ever this year — he is sending me to Plymouth, NC so I can attend a family reunion that I’ve been wanting to attend for many years now. Plymouth, located in Washington County, NC – is the hometown of my late maternal grandmother, Alice McNair
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While indexing some old issues of Winston-Salem State University’s yearbooks tonight for the NCGenWeb Yearbook Index, I found another relative! This time, I found Lossie Viola McNair (1923-2008). Lossie is a member of the 1946 graduating class and the yearbook shows that her nickname was “Mae.” Later on in the yearbook, in the “Who’s
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