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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 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

Weekly Updates for 2010-01-27

RT @OurGeorgiaRoots: RT @georgiapioneers: Clarke Co GA wills added to http://www.georgiapioneers.com #
RT @baysideresearch: Bayside Blog >> Requesting Vital Records from the Maryland State Archives http://bit.ly/5EHtYs . . . → : 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

A Gentleman Named “Pioneer Ben”

A fascinating biographical sketch on Pioneer Ben Burgin can be found at burginfamily.org:

“Benjamin Burgin, the second child of John & Martha Burgin, was born in Kent County (Shrewsbury Parish) Maryland, November 30,1741 and was christened December 25, 1741. Kent County is on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, just across the northern part of the Chesapeake Bay from Baltimore . . . → : CONTINUE READING