So.. here’s a story for the family history – my mother gave herself a middle name this week! For the majority of her life, she has lamented the fact that she did not have a middle name. All of her siblings had one, but yet, she didn’t. I guess it has really had an impact […]
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In my last post, I shared that I am a featured contributor for a new platform, FamilyScrybe™, where I currently have 3 blog posts up. One of the posts describes my genealogy origin story about how conversations with my grandmothers were part of the spark to my interest in researching the family. In the many
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This week, I’ve exchanged emails with a couple of family historians about handwriting and even touched base with a graphologist! I am inquiring about a possible brief analysis of my grandfather’s handwriting. My mother tells me that her father, Herman, had the same handwriting as his sister Lucinda. She tells me that he had the
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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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It’s Election Day and I just had to do this post. This past weekend, the Reclaim the Records initiative announced their success in releasing the New York List of Registered Voters in 1924 – all of them now available online through the Internet Archive. And, it is absolutely wonderful to have! My own family has New
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On this day in 1994, my mother’s youngest brother, Calvin Earl Robinson passed away. The last post I made about Calvin, in 2008, was to share the news that we finally had a picture of his headstone thanks to the graciousness of a Find-A-Grave volunteer. Now, I’m pleased to show off his NEW headstone which
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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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Today has been a great day. I have been able to be in contact with a 2nd cousin of mine for a branch of my family for whom we have lost contact. And, she found me via those great Ancestry shaky leaves! Practically just like the commercial below: 🙂 She shared with me that she
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My uncle Stanley Robinson passed away in July 2010. Just 10 months later in May 2011, his mom, my grandmother Alice, also passed away. Stanley was my grandmother’s first born and they were always very close. Even though we lost them both so soon after each other, I relish in the fact that they are
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Oh how I love genealogy! Tonight, while doing a little Twitter reading, I saw Thomas post that Ancestry has put the NY State Census indexes online for 1892, 1915, and 1925. Excitedly, I quickly hopped over to the Ancestry site to search 1925 for I expected to be able to find my great-grandparents – Lewis
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