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On this date. . .the 1st of September

Births

Silas Ellis was born in 1811 in North Carolina.
Mary Alice Pendley was born in 1920 in Chatsworth, Georgia.

Deaths

David Washington Greenlee died in 1865 in Greenlee, North Carolina.
James Lawson died in 1903 in Polk County, Tennessee.
Edward Austin Roberts died in 1930 in Dalton, Georgia.
Annie E. Roberts was died in 1953 in Murray . . . → : CONTINUE READING

On this date. . .the 27th of August

Births

Stephen Ellis was born in 1783 in Caswell County, North Carolina.
Thomas Stroud was born in 1791 in Burke County, North Carolina.
Maud Angeline (Whitener) Butler was born in 1885 in Murray County, Georgia (my great-grandmother).

Deaths

George Albright died in 1835 in Guilford County, North Carolina.
Millington Lytle died in 1874 in Buncombe County, North Carolina.

Immigration

Maria Barbara (Gossner) Dellinger arrived from . . . → : CONTINUE READING

On this date. . .the 6th of August

Births

Richard Bennett was born in 1609, in Isle of Wight County, Virginia.
Holly Debord was born in 1805, in North Carolina.
Mary Ann Eliza Whiteside was born in 1828, in Rutherford County, North Carolina.

Deaths

John Whitfield Hemphill died in 1915, in . . . → : CONTINUE READING

Weekly Updates for 2010-06-30

genealogy

Reading “Tribe moves to implement DNA testing for new applicants to Cherokee rolls” http://ht.ly/22wlT #genealogy #
Created an @footnote page for Samuel Mackie. http://ht.ly/22RgL #genealogy #
Reading: Southern California Genealogical Society’s 2010 Jamboree: The Conclusion http://ht.ly/22YEF||good #genealogy conference tips! #
Blog post: Using @Evernote for #Genealogy http://ht.ly/22Wwf #
Cleaning up problems in my #genealogy database. #
Blog post: Surname Saturday: West . . . → : 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

June Ancestor Birthdays

Photo by Tela Chhe - CC-BY

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

Elizabeth Phillips, 11x-great-grandmother, born 18 Jun 1565 in London, England.
William Robert Hinton, 6x-great-grandfather, born 12 Jun 1728 in St. Anne’s Parish, Anne Arundel, Maryland.
Captain Thomas Lytle, 5x-great-grandfather, born 06 Jun 1750 in Rowan County, North Carolina.
Anna Barbara Albright, born 18 Jun 1754 in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
Thomas Lytle, . . . → : CONTINUE READING

Nancy Emeline Brookshire

Brookshire Garrett genealogy

front row (seated): Robert (l), Nancy (r) back row (standing): Zilpha (l), Dovie (r)

My great-great-grandmother, Nancy Emeline Brookshire (don’t you love that name?) 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 . . . → : CONTINUE READING

March Birthdays

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

Clara Anna (Unknown Maiden Name), 8x-great-grandmother, born 20 Mary 1669.
Rhoda Ervin Simeral, 5x-great-grandmother, born March 1733 in Donigal, Ireland.
Elizabeth Yeatman, 5x-great-grandmother, born 08 Mar 1738 in Kennett, Chester, Pennsylvania.
Major George Wilfong, 6x-great-grandfather, born 11 Mar 1743 in Pennsylvania.
Mary Ann Marlow, 5x-great-grandmother, born 30 Mar 1762 in Charles, . . . → : CONTINUE READING

Weekly Updates for 2010-02-17

RT @LisaCooke: Had a blast talking with Lisa Kudrow about WDYTYA! Listen to the exclusive interview on Valentine’s Day. Podcast episode 81. #
The death certificates I ordered in November FINALLY came yesterday. #
Updated old blog post – SNGF – Most Recent Unknown Ancestor – with newly found information. http://ow.ly/176hj #
Very nice! RT @InnerCompass: It feels good to . . . → : 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