My niece, Rachel, and I went on an epic research trip in Virginia in July. We hit 5 courthouses, untold cemeteries, tromped around all sorts of weed filled fields and made a […]
In 1907, my Great Grandfather, Wyatt Paul Gillespie, bought what I thought was a house at 108 Houston Street in Lexington, Virginia, but now that I reread the document, it appears that […]
This is more of a mental sorting, rather than a physical sorting. Sometimes it’s hard to find a blog queue that fits what you want to write about! So, I published the […]
Update: I found I had the images out of order and that what was Page 6 continues the dowry release. It is all reasonably ordered now. My grandfather, Gilbert Gillespie, told my […]
