Family History and Genealogy
This is part of an occasional series in which I process information from a book called Marriage and Death Notices from Extant Asheville, N. C. Newspapers 1840-1870 An Index. I consulted this book last year at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. I have lots of people from in and around Asheville, […]
Recently, I received a sharing invitation from a 23andMe autosomal DNA match. I responded in the affirmative and asked the sender for a copy of her gedcom, so that I could try to figure out the genealogical connection. Instead, she figured it out for us! Cousin M. and I are predicted as 3rd to 4th […]
While I did an autosomal dna test at 23andMe last year, I recently took advantage of a sale price to have my mother’s dna tested at Family Tree DNA, doing their autosomal test, known as Family Finder. I also upgraded my own results at FT DNA, in order to compare my results with hers. My […]
Births Mary (Clark) Mackie was born in 1767. Arthur Quillian Roberts was born in 1886 in Murray County, Georgia. Ethel Whitener was born in 1901 in Murray County, Georgia. Deaths Elizabeth (Kendrick) O’Neal died in 1894. Annie G. Hemphill died in 1936.
Births Jesse Burgin was born in 1803 in Burke County, North Carolina. Amanda Melvina Jane (Heartsill) Roberts was born in 1862 in Tennessee. Deaths Reverend Thomas Mallory died in 1644 in Chester, England (currently believed to be my 10th great-grandfather). Jane (Bane) Chamberlain died in 1777. Rachel (Hemphill) Whiteside died in 1833 in Bills Creek, […]
Deaths Johann Wilhelm Dellinger died in 1720. Anna Barbara Albrecht died in 1902 in Guilford County, North Carolina. Alvin M. Brookshire died in 1889. Susan C. Whitener died in 1905 in North Carolina. Nancy Emeline (Brookshire) Garrett died in 1916 in Ellijay, Georgia (my 3rd great-grandmother). Louisa M. (Smith) Johnson died in 1963. Marriages Thomas […]
Births Thomas Whiteside was born in 1790 in Buffalo Creek, North Carolina. Deaths Mary (Pitcairn) Mackie died in 1746 in Ceres, Scotland (currently believed to be my 8th great-grandmother). James Kendall Thompson died in 1913 in Murray County, Georgia. Click on any link above to see more information about these individuals, including source citations. Did […]
Births David Washington Greenlee was born in 1787 in Morganton, North Carolina. Rosanna (Mackie) Whiteside was born in 1793. John Roberts was born in 1851 in Bradley County, Tennessee. George William Butler was born in 1912 in Texas. John Edward Hemphill was born in 1916 in Chatsworth, Georgia (my grandfather). Marriages Rosa E. Ellis and […]
Births Mary (Pitcairn) Mackie was born in 1686 in Ceres, Scotland (currently believed to be my 8th great-grandmother). Elizabeth Miller was born in 1804.
Births Martha (Mackie) Allen was born in 1809. Peter Wilfong Whitener was born in 1840 in Catawba County, North Carolina. Deaths Catherina Margaretha Dellinger died in 1734. Anna Barbara (Dellinger) Weber Meyer died in 1742. William Everett Whitener died January 5, 1937 in Murray County, Georgia (my 2nd great-grandfather).
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