Happy New Year! It’s now 2020 and we are beginning a new decade! 2019 was a great year for me with regard to my family history and genealogy activities and I wanted to share a brief recap. Some of my highlights include: Presenting for the Tennessee State Library & Archives, the Maury County Genealogical Society, and […]
Hello 2020 – New Year, Fresh Start Read More »
A couple of weeks ago I shared that I’d joined the Guild of One-Name Studies. This is Week 6 of Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks series and how apropos that this week’s prompt is “Favorite Name.” Guess what name I choose? KOONCE! A perfectly timed prompt for launching my new site dedicated
My New Koonce Surname Study Site Read More »
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
In the Census: I’m Ready for 1950 Read More »
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
The Longest Living Person in My Genealogy Database: Zeola L. Portis Read More »
As Amy Johnson Crow begins her 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks series this year, I finally decided to take the plunge and participate! The goal of the series is to do something with the genealogy research that I, and so many others, obsess about 🙂 ; to make it more interactive and dynamic than just
Our Visual Address History Read More »