Tonia's Roots http://www.toniasroots.net Kendrick Hemphill Butler Ward West Whitener Roberts Johnson Baxter Lankford Patterson McEntire Ellis Forrester Garrett Lawson Cook Bruer Quarles Lytle Searcy Davis Alexander Langston Tucker Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:06:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Weekly Updates for 2010-03-10
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    ]]> http://www.toniasroots.net/2010/03/10/weekly-updates-for-2010-03-10/ Tombstone Tuesday: James and Maud Butler JB-Maud-Butler-TT-wJames Benjamin Butler and Maud Whitener were my great-grandparents.  Jim was born November 24, 1880 in Murray County, Georgia.  He was a farmer and later the sheriff of Murray County.  He died November 28, 1944.

    Maud was born in August 27, 1885 in Murray County, Georgia.  She died April 7,… Read the rest

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    ]]>     http://www.toniasroots.net/2010/03/09/tombstone-tuesday-james-and-maud-butler/     A Place for All Their Faces

    We are the sum of all the people who have lived before us.

    Meryl Streep, Faces of America

    These are the women who inform who I am today.  Some are ancestors.  Some are aunts or cousins or in-laws.  Some I knew in person. Some I know only… Read the rest

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    ]]>     http://www.toniasroots.net/2010/03/08/a-place-for-all-their-faces/     Aunt Thelma’s Potato Soup Today’s Fearless Female prompt from The Accidental Genealogist is to:

    Share a favorite recipe from your mother or grandmother’s kitchen. Why is this dish your favorite? If you don’t have one that’s been passed down, describe a favorite holiday or other meal you

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    No related posts.]]>     http://www.toniasroots.net/2010/03/07/aunt-thelmas-potato-soup/     Nancy Emeline Brookshire Nancy Emeline Brookshire (don’t you love that name?) was my great-great-great-grandmother.  She was the daughter of James Brookshire and Elizabeth Tilley and was born on May 13, 1833 in North Carolina.  She died on March 1, 1916 in Ellijay, Gilmer County, Georgia and was buried in Tickanetley Cemetery.

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    ]]>     http://www.toniasroots.net/2010/03/06/nancy-emeline-brookshire/     Family History Skills: Genealogical Basics One of my To-Do items for March is to take the online “Family History Skills course” provided by the National Genealogical Society.   This course is offered free to NGS members;  NSG offers several other online courses for fees, so I wanted to take the… Read the rest

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    ]]>     http://www.toniasroots.net/2010/03/04/family-history-skills-genealogical-basics/     A Farmer’s Wife On Monday, I wrote about Anna (Carnes) Forrester.  Today’s spotlight is on her daughter, Mary Lourania (Forrester) Ward, my great-great-grandmother.  This is the woman that my grandmother refers to as Grandma Ward.

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    ]]>     http://www.toniasroots.net/2010/03/03/a-farmers-wife/     Weekly Updates for 2010-03-03
  • Indexed 50 names on FamilySearch 1910 Massachusetts census. #genealogy #GBGames2010 #
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    ]]>     http://www.toniasroots.net/2010/03/03/weekly-updates-for-2010-03-03/     March Genealogy To-Dos I’m getting a better feel for what can be accomplished in a “normal” month, with only weekends and a few weeknights to do genealogy.

    The to-dos for March are:

    • Write 8 blog posts
    • Abstract (or update previously-done abstractions, if necessary) 8 census pages and update the citations.
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    ]]>     http://www.toniasroots.net/2010/03/02/march-genealogy-to-dos/     A Favorite Female Ancestor In honor of women’s history month, I’ll be writing a number of posts honoring the female half of my family tree.  Today’s post is part of the Fearless Females blogging prompt series created by Lisa Alzo, The Accidental Genealogist.

    Do you have a favorite female

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