I’ve been blogging for 14 years and I find it an excellent way to share my research findings and the processes I use for my family history research. Digital is my forte and I embrace it wholly! When it comes to ensuring that the work I do sustains beyond me, I am, at this point, […]
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Earlier this month, at my genealogy society’s annual Show & Tell (the Nashville Chapter of the Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society), I chose to share a story of how a blog post I made resulted in great additional knowledge about a family member! In April 2017, I blogged a discovery I made about the wife
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It’s Week 3 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks series and this week’s prompt is “Longevity.” For this prompt, I decided to check my genealogy database and find the longest-living person. I use TNG: The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding for my primary software program and it is easy to run statistics and find the longest-living
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You know what makes for a great start to the new year? Being contacted by a distant cousin who found me via Google searching -yay! My newly-found cousin is a great-granddaughter of Richard Wimberly (1860-1921) & Lina Petway (1870-1963) of Tarboro, Edgecombe County, NC. Richard is a brother to my 3rd-great-grandmother Mariah Wimberly McNair (1843-1903). As
Last month over the Memorial Day weekend, I attended the 45th annual reunion of my McNair family in Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina. I was honored to be asked to speak to the family during the family church service on that Sunday. It was such a great experience! I put together a presentation to distribute
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Each Memorial Day Weekend my maternal grandmother’s family comes together for the McNair Family Reunion in Plymouth, North Carolina. This year, is the 45th year and I’m so pleased to be going again! My first time going was last year. Initially, I’d planned to do a whole series of blog posts about the trip, but
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This blog post is part of a series about my trip to Plymouth, NC for the 44th Annual McNair Family Reunion. It was Saturday, May 24th and I was on my way to Plymouth for the family reunion. I was not only looking forward to being there, but also to the drive. The highway 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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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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Back in June, through the kind assistance of a researcher in North Carolina, I was sent photos of the headstones and home of the brother of one of my 3rd great-grandmothers. This is Dred Wimberly and his wife Ellen Bertha (Jenkins) Wimberly. They are buried in Unity Cemetery in Rocky Mount, NC and their home
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