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 […]
Brickwall Breakthrough with County Death Index
A great advantage to living in the same small town where many of my ancestors have lived for 150 years is that I can do genealogy research during my lunch break. Every few weeks, I”ll drop by the county probate office and look through one resource. I knew that county death registers existed, but I […]
Most Wanted: Barbara Baxter Kendrick
My g-g-grandmother’s name was Barbara Baxter. I have very little information about her. She was married to Francis Marion Kendrick on 16 Apr 1871. I can place the two of them, along with various children, in the 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930 censuses, always living in the Alaculsey District of Murray County, Georgia. She […]