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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun – yDNA from a Maternal Line

28 January 2012 And More

Randy Seaver’s challenge this week is to: Find a living male person in your database from your maternal grandfather’s patrilineal line who could take a Y-DNA test. Answer these questions: 1) What was your mother’s father’s name? 2) What is your mother’s father’s patrilineal line? That is, his father’s father’s father’s … back to the [...]

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Wordless Wednesday: Thelma and Bondell

16 November 2011 Photos

My grandmother’s sisters, Thelma (Ward) Fortenberry and Bondell (Ward) Fain.

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Wordless Wednesday – Pepaw Ward’s Still

2 November 2011 Photos

My great-grandfather made moonshine.  This is a picture of his still.

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Wordless Wednesday – Pepaw Ward at the Mine

19 October 2011 Photos

My great-grandfather and other workers from the Cohutta Talc Mine in Murray County, Georgia.  Pepaw Ward is standing at the far left.

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Wordless Wednesday – Pearl and John Thomas

5 October 2011 Photos

  Pearl Ward and her first husband, John Thomas.  Pearl was my grandmother’s sister.

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Wordless Wednesday – Courting

21 September 2011 Photos

This picture was taken when my great-grandparents were courting (according to my grandmother).  They are the young couple seated at the far left.

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Newt Ward and Rachel Johnson – Wordless Wednesday

24 August 2011 Photos

My great-grandparents, Newton Coleman Ward and Rachel Louisa Johnson.

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Wordless Wednesday: Mary Forrester Ward

3 August 2011 And More

Mary Lourania (Forrester) Ward – my 2nd great-grandmother.

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Uncle Worth’s Burial Permit

11 July 2011 Evidence

This is the permit to bury my grandmother’s only brother.  I’m excited about this record for a couple of reasons.  For one thing, I’d never seen a burial permit before; I had no idea so much good genealogical information would be included.  For another, it corroborates my grandmother’s story about her brother’s death. Analysis of [...]

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On this date. . .the 27th of June

27 June 2011 On this date

Births Mary (Boggs) Ellis was born in 1807 in Georgia. Deaths Mary Louisa Brown died in 1898. Lucy Ann Tucker died in 1905 in Murray County, Georgia. Cynthia Caroline (Reed) Whitener died in 1915 in Shelbyville, Tennessee. Carrie (Bell) Johnson died in 1920. Charles Kilgore died in 1959 in Murray County, Georgia. Marriages Isham Lawson [...]

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