Posts Tagged Patterson

And the iGene Award Goes To

Welcome to the 2009 iGene Awards, spotlighting Tonia’s Roots.  We’ll be celebrating the best posts of 2009 and presenting awards for Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Documentary, and Best Biography.

The nominees for Best Picture are. . .

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February Birthdays

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

  • Jonathan Curtis, 8x-great-grandfather, born 19 Feb 1690 in Wiltshire, England.
  • John Garrett, 5x-great-grandfather, born 19 Feb 1739 in Kennet, Chester, Pennsylvania.
  • Catherine Powell, 5x-great-grandmother, born 20 Feb 1785 in Burke County, North Carolina.
  • Rosamond, 4x-great-grandmother, born 25 Feb 1805

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Weekly Update: December 30, 2009

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Weekly Updates for 2009-12-16

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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 2009-11-25

  • Interesting news. . .DearMYRTLE’s Genealogy Blog: DAR: Online databases now available http://ow.ly/DylA #
  • RT @footnote: Check out our new Native American Collection. Explore unique documents and share Native American heritage. http://bit.ly/sLNEk #
  • Ditto. RT @rjseaver: highlighted

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Weekly Updates for 2009-09-23

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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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What’s New – 7/29/09

New Photos

Dave Butler at home on Rock Creek
Rosa (Ellis) Roberts, Alice Roberts, Mary Pendley
Hemphill Women

New Census Records

William Henson Patterson household: 1880, 1900, 1920

New Documents

Newspaper clipping about great-aunts attending Lucy Hill Institute
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Native American Ancestry – An Update

On December 8, 2008, I posted an article regarding a family legend of Native American ancestry.  Here is an update on what I have learned since then.

Several weeks ago, I was looking through the Guion-Miller Rolls for the name “Patterson.”  I found a “Wm.… Read the rest

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