Posts Tagged Gilmer County GA

Nancy Emeline Brookshire

Nancy Emeline Brookshire (don’t you love that name?) was my great-great-great-grandmother.  She was the daughter of James Brookshire and Elizabeth Tilley and was born on May 13, 1833 in North Carolina.  She died on March 1, 1916 in Ellijay, Gilmer County, Georgia and was buried in Tickanetley Cemetery.

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Weekly Updates for 2010-03-03

  • Indexed 50 names on FamilySearch 1910 Massachusetts census. #genealogy #GBGames2010 #
  • Blog post: Winter 2010 Geneablogger Games – The Final Tally http://bit.ly/d9eFWQ #genealogy #GBGames2010 #
  • Reading: Trace Your Family Tree on Your Lunch

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Surname Saturday: Top 10 Ellis Research Resources

Ellis is the second-most common surname in my genealogy database.  These are the 10 resources that I have found to be most helpful in researching these family members.

  1. Ellis and Keener Connections” – a family tree compiled by Lynda Gibbs and housed at Rootsweb World Connect.  Some of you

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Weekly Update: December 30, 2009

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The Devil Made Me Do It

“To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish.” – Benjamin Franklin

If you read my December To-Do list, you know that one of the things I’m working on this month is looking for source records to verify facts in an ahnentafel report… 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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December Birthdays

It’s time to recognize ancestors who were born in December:

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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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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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My Genealogical Threes

I’m playing along with Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun.   This week’s assignment is to:

Tell us your three responses to the questions:

  • Three genealogical libraries I frequent
  • Three places I’ve visited on genealogy trips
  • Three genealogy societies I belong to (or want to)

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