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On this date. . .the 3rd of September

Births

Ann (Hubbard) Barstow was born in 1605 in Plymouth County, Massachusetts (currently believed to be my 10th great-grandmother).
Elizabeth Burgin was born in 1817 in Burke County, North Carolina.
Reuben Phillip Johnson was born in 1853 in Georgia (my great-great grandfather).
Lizzie (West) Kendrick was born in 1886 in Murray County, Georgia (my great-grandmother).

Deaths

John Burgin died in 1753 in . . . → : CONTINUE READING

On this date. . .the 30th of August

Births

Phillip Burgin was in 1698 in Shrewsbury Parish, Maryland.
John Debord was born in 1730.
William Clark Mackie was born in 1798.
Joseph Lytle Burgin was born in 1846 in Crooked Creek, North Carolina.

Deaths

Ida Rosa (Kendrick) Headrick died in 1948 in Murray County, Georgia.
James B. Hemphill died in 2003 in Dalton, Georgia.

Marriages

Eva Catherine Dellinger and Johann Michael Rudisill were . . . → : CONTINUE READING

On this date. . .the 16th of August

Births

Hans Michel Dellinger was born in 1663.
Catherine Albright was born in 1763 in Orange County, North Carolina.
James Polk Forrester was born in 1844 in Georgia.

Marriages

Julia Adelaide Dwight and William T. Wofford were married in Murray . . . → : CONTINUE READING

On this date. . .the 12th of August

Births

Ethel (Waldroup) Butler was born in 1913.

Deaths

William Marlow died in 1729 in Charles County, Maryland.
Josiah Newton Ellis died in 1863 in Fannin . . . → : CONTINUE READING

On this date. . .the 7th of August

Births

Betty Ann Ellis was born in 1890 in Gilmer County, Georgia.
Ottis Headrick was born in 1897.

Deaths

Horatio Gates Garrett died in 1832 in Steubenville, Ohio.
James Garrett died in 1951 in Cobb . . . → : CONTINUE READING

Weekly Updates for 2010-08-04

genealogy

Great #genealogy resource! Gordon County GA obituaries online. http://ow.ly/2i2Jb #
RT @JireneGen: “Write as you have never written before.” The Coming Genealogical Dark Ages. Good #genealogy article. http://su.pr/9MB3yo #
RT @vrc84: Doing in #genealogy in GA or surrounding states? Follow the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Sun. column http://tinyurl.com/254zdyv #
RT @GenealoGee: A Review of Family Tree . . . → : CONTINUE READING

Online Family Trees: What are your search results?

Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings wrote an interesting post last week about Google results when searching for names from your own trees.  He searched one one of his names combined with a location, using various search types and reported out the top results. 

I decided to give it a try with my own search results.

I have an Ancestry Member Tree that . . . → : CONTINUE READING

Weekly Updates for 2009-11-04

Found photo of Reuben and Martha (Garrett) Johnson. http://bit.ly/36Etl #
Found two new children of Wyatt H. Lankford.  #genealogy #
Just found death certificate for William West – misindexed as Wilson West. So excited. MMN now confirmed as Cook. #surnames #genealogy #
Ordered 3 death certificates from state of GA today: William H. Ward, . . . → : CONTINUE READING

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 to identify their ancestry.  Many, many of my ancestors were already on these shores at that . . . → : CONTINUE READING

Favorite Genealogy Websites

These are my top ten favorite websites for genealogy research (I have not included blogs – they will be the subject of another post).   Most are big sites, whether commercial, government, or volunteer-supported, but a few are personal sites that have been particularly helpful in my own research.

Ancestry.  The census records alone make the subscription fee worthwhile.  . . . → : CONTINUE READING