I’m feeling all inspired again with my genealogy blogging! I’ve gotten some great thoughts from reading others’ blogs. For this post, I’m taking Randy up on his last Saturday Night Fun quest, Where Were They in 1909? The task was as follows: 1) Which of your ancestors were alive in 1909? 2) Tell us where […]
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I’ve just returned home from a 4 day visit to the beautiful island of Oahu, Hawaii. I was there for a business trip, the annual gathering of the Medical Library Association. It has been busy and interesting and on Monday I had a chance to do something I had been looking forward to for months –
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One of my ancestors, my 2nd great-grandfather Andrew D. McNair, had two sets of children. With his first wife, Gracy Bullock, he had 5 children between 1894-1906. Gracy died between 1906-1910 and Andrew remarried to a woman named Bennie Slade. With Bennie he would have 5 more children between 1915-1923. Lossie Viola McNair Mason
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I’m starting a new blog meme for myself – Music Mondays. Music is very important for me, so I thought it would be interesting to document various songs and their association with various events in the family through music. For my first music monday post, I’d like to share a song that was sung at
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My last post on my mother’s uncle Lorenza was very well received by my family members. Two cousins as well as Lorenza’s aunt Martha (who is 80+ years old and sends email and is online!) also commented. Everyone seemed to really appreciate it. After that post, I digiscrapped a layout for him. The layout uses
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This is a post I’ve been wanting to write for a couple of years now as it was one of the most interesting history lessons I had early on when I started doing my genealogy in 2006. December 7th marks the anniversary of Pearl Harbor and my great-uncle, Lorenza McNair (1921-2005), was in the military
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Yesterday, October 16th, was my daughter’s birthday. She turned 4! She was born on my maternal grandmother’s birthday and she has the middle name of Kalonji’s paternal grandmother. My mother told me she went to the nursing home yesterday to help grandma celebrate her birthday. She turned 84 yesterday. Happy Birthday grandma! So, as a
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The call for submissions to the 55th Carnival of Genealogy has been announced and the topic is Show & Tell! Participants are charged with sharing an “…heirloom, a special photo, a valuable document, or a significant person that is a very special part of your family history.” To this end, I’d like to share this
A few months ago, I read an announcement that a new Heritage book was coming out for one of the counties that I have roots in – Edgecombe County, North Carolina. My McNair family line goes back (as far as I can trace it), to Rufus Tannahill McNair and his wife Mariah Wimberly McNair of
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I haven’t been working on my own family genealogy much this past two weeks or so – we’ve been rather busy and I’ve been devoting quite a bit of time to a few other genealogy projects; but, tonight I took a few minutes to play around on Footnote’s website. I mentioned a couple of posts
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