Posts Tagged Forrester

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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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

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2010 Research Plans

Thanks to Amy Coffin at WeTree for this prompt:

49. Use your blog like a sounding board for research plans. Sometimes it helps to write down what you want to do, so you can plan how to do it.

Here is a random list of… Read the rest

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Weekly Updates for 2009-12-09

  • 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.

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SNGF – Most Recent Unknown Ancestor

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

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Weekly Updates for 2009-09-23

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What’s New 8/19/09

New Census Records

1880 Census, Murray County – various Roberts’ households

Death Records

Jesse Lafayette Forrester death certificate

1880 Gilmer County Census Mortality Schedule

1850 Gilmer County Census Mortality Schedule

New Facts

Thomas L. Hemphill death date

Michael Whitener death date

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What’s New 8/12/2009

New Census Records

1840 Census:  Bradley County, TN – John Roberts HH,

1840 Census:  Bradley County, TN – Martin Langston HH, Thomas Atchley HH

1910 Census:  Whitfield County, GA – Edward A. Roberts HH

1910 Census:  Murray County, GA – various Roberts’ HHs

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And then there were 16

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

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Photoshopping Headstones

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

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