Maryland

On this date. . .the 30th of March

30 March 2011 On this date

Births Mary Ann (Marlow) Brookshire was born in 1762 in Maryland (my 5th great-grandmother). John William Tucker was born in 1840 in Murray County, Georgia. Lula Maude Butler was born in 1894 in Georgia. Deaths John Clayton Garrett died in 1949 in Georgia. Marriages William Brookshire and Mary Ann Marlow were married in 1779, possibly [...]

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On this date. . .the 3rd of September

3 September 2010 On this date

Births John German was born in 1830. Reuben Phillip Johnson was born in 1853 in Georgia (my great-great grandfather). Lizzie (West) Kendrick was born in 1886, probably in Murray County, Georgia (my great-grandmother). Deaths John Burgin died in 1753 in Shrewsbury Parish, Maryland (my 7th great-grandfather). Madison Alexander Ellis died in 1862, while serving in [...]

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On this date. . .the 30th of August

30 August 2010 On this date

Births 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 [...]

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On this date. . .the 12th of August

12 August 2010 On this date

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 County, Georgia.

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Weekly Updates for 2010-01-27

27 January 2010 Research

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 #genealogy #

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And then there were 16

8 August 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 to identify their ancestry.  Many, many of my ancestors were already on these shores [...]

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A Gentleman Named “Pioneer Ben”

24 February 2008 Bios & Timelines

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 [...]

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