
My great grandfather Wyatt Paul Gillespie died on February 19, 1941. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941. Gilbert Gillespie was 27; his wife was 24. They had a 4 year […]
My great grandfather Wyatt Paul Gillespie died on February 19, 1941. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941. Gilbert Gillespie was 27; his wife was 24. They had a 4 year […]
So I’ve started the story of my maternal grandmother, know I’d like to introduce my paternal grandfather, Gilbert McClung Gillespie. That’s him on the back row on the left. I remember him […]
Genealogy begins as an interest, Becomes a hobby; Continues as an avocation, Takes over as an obsession, And in its last stages, Is an incurable disease. –Author Unknown
Life in the 1920 is not life in the 2010’s. I went searching for information in the 1920’s, specifically about North Carolina, to try and gather some perspective about the life of […]
When we looked at Jennie Elizabeth Payne in the 1930 census, we were left with the question, why was Jennie, 22, was living on a farm in Crowder Mountain, North Carolina with […]
Teasing the story out of the records is half the battle. Presenting the story so it is interesting, well that is something else. I love this particular example: Everything I know About […]
Census records are great for giving us birth events, names and relationships (stated or presumed) and depending on the year other various event and identity information. But I do believe that every […]
When I first started doing genealogy it was all about growing the tree, going back one more generation. But before too long I had a tree with a bunch of records attached. […]