Posts Tagged Forrester
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
2010 Research Plans
Posted by Tonia Kendrick in Research on December 11th, 2009
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
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 2009-09-23
Posted by Tonia Kendrick in What's New on September 23rd, 2009
- Added photo of Anna (CARNES) Forrester1822 – 1914. http://bit.ly/2U15To #genealogy #
- Added photo of Elijah Monteville ROBERTS 1879 – ?. http://bit.ly/EA8fR #
- RT @auldmags: #Randomquestions for #genealogy
What’s New 8/19/09
Posted by Tonia Kendrick in What's New on August 19th, 2009
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
Cause of… Read the rest
What’s New 8/12/2009
Posted by Tonia Kendrick in What's New on August 12th, 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
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
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