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 […]
The Summer of 1942
Right around the corner from home
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 […]
Random thought for the day…
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
North Carolina in the 1920’s
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 […]
How Eight Children Ended Up Living Alone in 1930
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 […]
Presenting Your Story: Everything I Know About Hyman Victor
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 […]
The Questions a Record Begs Us to Ask
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 […]
Let’s Begin …
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. […]
