Posts Tagged Fannin County GA
A Farmer’s Wife
Posted by Tonia Kendrick in Family Stories on March 3rd, 2010
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.
Mary was born on July 7, 1864,… Read the rest
Weekly Updates for 2009-12-09
Posted by Tonia Kendrick in What's New on December 9th, 2009
- Cool, my granny was a one. RT @littlebyteslife: CA #DAR participated a few yrs ago.RT @WWIIToday: Know a Rosie from WWII? http://ow.ly/BiNH #
- Indexed batch of 10 GA death certificates for FamilySearch. Many died on Christmas. Sad.
SNGF – Most Recent Unknown Ancestor
Posted by Tonia Kendrick in Most Wanted on November 21st, 2009
Randy Seaver’s latest mission for us is to locate our Most Recent Unknown Ancestor. The mission instructions are:
1) Who is your MRUA – your Most Recent Unknown Ancestor? This is the person with the lowest number in your Pedigree Chart or Ahnentafel List that you have not identified a
Weekly Updates for 2009-10-07
Posted by Tonia Kendrick in What's New on October 7th, 2009
- Added photo of Veteran’s Memorial monument at Murray County Courthouse. http://bit.ly/TcgAv #genealogy #
- Added photo of Malinda (Burgin) Hemphill’s headstone. http://bit.ly/3dgEj #genealogy #
- Added photo of Andrew Hemphill’s headstone.
October Birthdays
Posted by Tonia Kendrick in Fun Facts on October 2nd, 2009
Let’s recognize ancestors who were born in October:
- Hans Jakob Rudisuhle, 8x-great-grandfather, born 04 Oct 1666 in Michelfeld, Germany.
- Margaret Coghill, 9x-great-grandmother, born 05 Oct 1684 in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, England.
- George Heinrich Weidner, 6x-great-grandfather, born 09 Oct 1717 in Coburg, Sachsen, Germany.
- Thomas Mackie, 5x, 6x, and 7x-great-grandfather, born
And then there were 16
Posted by Tonia Kendrick in Fun Facts on August 8th, 2009
Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun Assignment is to list one’s 16 great-great-grandparents, include their dominant ancestry and to calculate one’s own dominant ancestry.
My spin on this is to look back an additional four generations from the ggg’s in order… Read the rest
Photoshopping Headstones
Posted by Tonia Kendrick in Technology on August 7th, 2009
The fabulous Lisa Louise Cooke, of the Genealogy Gems podcast, has an article in the September 2009 edition of Family Tree Magazine about transforming gravestones with photo-editing software to bring out the unreadable details. I admit, I was skeptical about… Read the rest
August Birthdays
Posted by Tonia Kendrick in Fun Facts on August 2nd, 2009
Let’s recognize ancestors and close relatives who were born in August:
- Agnes Kattermann, 9x-great-grandmother, born 20 Aug 1634.
- William Garrett, 7x-great-grandfather, born 21 Aug 1643 in Leicestershire, Darby, England.
- Elizabeth Mawson, 11x-great-grandmother, born 26 Aug 1655 in England.
- Johans Philip Dellinger, 7x-great-grandfather, born 24 Aug 1706 in Oberacker, Kraichtal,
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