discovering your family history through cluster genealogy
So the more I ponder and the more I mull, it seems there is more than one type of cluster you can put your ancestor in. Clusters that are a single event. Signing a petition is a single event that creates a cluster. Being enumerated in 1830 in York County is a multi day event... Continue Reading →
There are a lot of things I know about Elizabeth. Her parents. Her husband. Her children. But I didn’t know when she died or where her final resting place was. And it bothered me. Her husband, James Calvin Donald,1 her son John Charlton2 and John’s wife Elizabeth3 and their two sons are buried in at... Continue Reading →
Over time, we all get better at genealogy. We learn better ways to search, to analyze and how to prove that which seems unprovable. The first group of family you work on is most likely to be filled with errors and bad assumptions. My Gillespie line is that line for me. I worked on it... Continue Reading →
There was a lot of sadness in Eva Georgia “Georgie” Baxter Payne’s 47 years. Her mother died when she was 4.[1] Georgie died 5 years after her husband when she was 47 leaving behind 8 children, the youngest who was 8. And she had a really inconvenient birthday. The 1880 census recorded everyone who was... Continue Reading →
When I first starting looking at what knew about my great grandmother Sudie Sarah Hamrick Turner, I thought I didn’t know much about her. But once I started digging into her life and the life of her family I found something different. She appears to have been part of a creative and ambitious group. Sarah... Continue Reading →
My great grandmother was Clara Ellen Hash. Her parents were Weldon Alexander Hash and Sarah Hash who were first cousins.[1] Their fathers were Zebedee Hash and Abram Hash, respectively. She was born May 12, 1889 in Grayson County, Virginia.[2] She had 6 children with Adam Franklin Feazell: Sarah, Ann, Carl, Helen, Charles and Harry.[3] She... Continue Reading →
My 52 Ancestors posts are going to focus on the women in my family tree. Just to try something different. I've discussed both of my grandmothers so I will start with my great grandmothers. Great Granny Laura. My father's paternal grandmother. One of my favorite pictures of her is the one with her dog which... Continue Reading →
My friend and colleague Amy Johnson Crow came up with a great idea on her blog No Story Too Small: 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. The challenge: have one blog post each week devoted to a specific ancestor. It could be a story, a biography, a photograph, an outline of a research problem — anything... Continue Reading →