This is a morbid post, but I have to do it! The other night while perusing my feed reader, I saw this article from the Annals of Epidemiology. (yeah, I have scientific journals in my feed reader – how else is a gal supposed to keep up with the medical literature for work! :-)) I […]
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This Memorial Day Weekend, as it’s traditionally held, my McNair branch of the family is having their 40th Annual Reunion. Started in 1972, I am amazed and proud of its longevity! I’ve not yet been to one, but my maternal grandmother, Alice McNair Robinson, used to go often and has shared with me details about
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Well, parts of it anyway. 🙂 This week, the 23andMe DNA Roots Into the Future results came back for one of my mother’s paternal 1st cousins. A great advantage of her having done the test is that I can now begin to establish segments of my mother’s DNA that comes from her paternal grandparents, Lewis
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My daughter Kaleya was born on her great-grandmother Alice’s birthday – October 16th. Yesterday, we celebrated Kaleya’s 7th birthday. Yesterday, my grandmother did not turn 87. 🙁 Today, b/c of it being her birthday, my mother went to her gravesite to visit her and to take the first pictures of her headstone. Grandma is buried
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My great-grandparents, Abraham & Martha (Walker) McNair, purchased their home in Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina in 1945. While I have a copy of the deed from the local registrar’s office it is not a true copy of the original. My mother found their original deed last week and their signatures are on it. Looking
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Sunday afternoon I was reading Susan Petersen’s post on her Long Lost Relatives blog about how to make the most use of Find-A-Grave. It’s a useful article and while I do most of what she discusses, as I read it, I was inspired to create the memorial for my grandmother that just passed away on
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Sadly, yesterday morning, Mother’s Day, my maternal grandmother, Alice Elizabeth McNair Robinson, passed away. She was 86 years old. Affected by Alzheimer’s these past several years, she fell ill a few weeks ago from an infection and never fully recovered. She was the last one of all her parent’s children and my last biological
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I’ve learned a new vocabulary term this week – “heir house.” Never heard of it before, but this has been my opportunity to learn. Let me explain. Yesterday I learned from my mother that her grandparents house at 502 Wilson Street in Plymouth (Washington County), NC is up for consideration to be turned over to
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Today is the 25th anniversary of the Challenger Explosion, and upon that shuttle was astronaut Ronald Erwin McNair. (Photo credits: 1971 Senior Yearbook Photo – A&T University, North Carolina) Family lore has that he is related to us — my maternal grandmother is a McNair from Washington County, North Carolina. As yet I’ve not further
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A few weeks ago I had a chance to see in person the book, Edgecombe County Heritage, North Carolina, 1735-2009. I was thrilled to see in print my contribution to the book that I submitted in 2008. I contributed an article on my McNair ancestry, going back to my 3rd-great grandfather Rufus Tannahill McNair and
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