Posts Tagged Georgia

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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Weekly Updates for 2009-11-04

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September Birthdays

Let’s recognize ancestors and close relatives who were born in September:

  • Ann Hubbard, 10x-great-grandmother, born 03 Sep 1605 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts.
  • John Burgin, 7x-great-grandfather, born 14 Sep 1704 in Shrewsbury Parish, Kent, Maryland.
  • Elias Powell, 6x-great-grandfather, born 26 Sep 1754 in Bromfield Parish, Culpepper, Virginia.
  • Elizabeth Mann, 5x-great-grandmother,

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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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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.

  1. Ancestry

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July Birthdays

On this, the first day of July, let’s recognize ancestors and close relatives who were born in July:

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Tombstone Tuesday – Elijah M. Ellis

Elijah Marion Ellis was my three-times great-grandfather.  He and his wife, Elizabeth McKinney Tucker, had four children.  His life was marked by tragedy; he lost his sight to typhoid fever at the age of 32 and was dead ten years later at the age of… Read the rest

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Kendrick Surname Fun Facts

The Kendrick surname is usually considered to be of Welsh, English, or Scottish origin.  The Welsh and English origins of the name are quite similar. In Wales, it was derived from the personal name “Cynwrig,” meaning chief man.   In England it was derived from the given name “Cenric” or “Kendrich”,… Read the rest

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Tombstone Tuesday – Dave and Josephine Butler

My last Tombstone Tuesday post was about Clara J. Butler; the subject of today’s post is her parents, David Sanford Butler and Malinda Josephine (Hemphill) Butler.  Dave and Josephine were my great-great-grandparents.   They died in 1938 and 1933, respectively. … Read the rest

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Tombstone Tuesday – Clara J. Butler

Clara J. Butler was my great-grandfather’s sister.  I know very little about her other than her birth and death dates.  She never married.  She died in 1918 at the age of 28; I wonder if she died in the influenza pandemic?

She is buried at Ramsey Cemetery in Ramhurst, Georgia. … Read the rest

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