Are you a visual person? As much as I LOVE using digital products since they help me be more efficient, there are times when I like writing or drawing on paper. Why? Because it helps me VISUALIZE and SEE what I need as I approach my genealogy work. Here is an example: two days ago, […]
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Yeah for 23andMe! Today I had a new connection – a 2nd cousin for Kalonji’s grandmother, Frances. Frances passed away in August at 89 years old, so we are especially grateful for this new cousin. Her match wrote back to me today and told me who her grandmother was and I was quickly able to
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With great sorrow I am sharing the unfortunate news that Kalonji’s grandmother passed away yesterday, August 6, 2014. Lovingly called “Mama Frances,” she was nothing but the kindest and sweetest person you’d ever want to know. We named our daughter Kaleya after her, giving her the middle name of Frances, so whenever we’d go to
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In my ongoing mission to seek the paternal lineage of Kalonji’s great-grandfather, Champ McClellan, I am another step closer tonight. My suspicion is that Champ is descended from a white slaveholder of his family – William Blount McClellan (1798-1881) – I like to call him “WB.” Thanks to the generosity of one of WB’s direct-male descendants,
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This post continues my posts describing our family vacation from August 1- 7, 2009. On our last day in Talladega during our family vacation back in August, we also took some time to visit the church of Kalonji’s great-grandfather, Champ McClellan. Champ was a minister at Ebenezer Baptist Church and his daughter, Kalonji’s grandmother, is
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This post continues my posts describing our family vacation from August 1- 7, 2009. Wednesday, August 5th was supposed to be our last day in Talladega for our family vacation last month. But, we decided on Tuesday that we’d stay another day. Well, instead of leaving on Thursday, we didn’t leave until Friday. Why? Because
This blog post continues the recounting of events from our family vacation of August 1-7, 2009. In my last post, I described visiting the home of General William Blount McClellan, the residence of my husband’s ancestors down in Talladega, Alabama. The next day, after our trip to Birmingham to the Civil Rights Institute and the
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On Wednesday I posted a montage of pictures and asked if anyone could see resemblance among them. I got two comments on the blog, plus I shared the picture with someone else that I know who is very good at looking at people and seeing similarities. Consensus: there are similarities and I’ve confirmed that I’m
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Who looks like who in these pictures? Do you see any resemblences? Let me know if you do. I’ll post later on why I did this.
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Over the past several weeks I’ve been in touch with the coordinator of the McClellan Family Tree DNA Project about our interest in testing some of Kalonji’s DNA lineage. During the course of our exchanges, I learned that he had the McClellan’s of Alabama and Arkansas book done by Bobbie Jones McLane, who is a
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