I have had the most fabulous few days in that I have had several cousin connections! I can’t even begin to go in-depth on all of them, but in brief: a third cousin of mine, Nafeesah, emailed me after searching online for more information about her family and finding my family genealogy site. She and […]
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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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The genealogy vacation extravaganza continues! Today I spent my time at the Nashville Public Library in their Nashville Room. I came to realized I’d seriously underappreciated the resources in the Nashville Room for I learned today much more about their holdings. As with yesterday, everything I gathered today will eventually go to the TNGenWeb &
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Thanks to the generosity of another researcher with family ties to Washington County, NC, I now have pictures of one of the most important cemeteries in my family research. The cemetery is the Rufus McNair Cemetery of Plymouth, North Carolina. I first learned of this cemetery in 2006 and was thrilled then to know of
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This is why I stay up until 1 in the morning! Tonight while doing some newspaper transcription, I had a great discovery. For the past couple of years, I have been transcribing old issues of The Roanoke Beacon. This is the newspaper of Plymouth (Washington County), North Carolina. My maternal grandmother and practically all of
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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I’ve been spending some time the past few days searching images in Flickr. There are so many great pictures that people are sharing and I’ve enjoyed looking through them. I am searching Flickr for pictures relevant to my genealogical interest and I’ve been surprised to find as much as I have. Back in April of
To being able to be the North Carolina GenWeb Site Coordinator for one of my main counties of interest, Edgecombe County, North Carolina! Turns out someone beat me to the punch to request it when a notice was sent out that the county was adoptable. I have roots there and just submitted a profile to