discovering your family history through cluster genealogy
My most visited page on the blog is my How To Videos page where I post links and slides from my presentations that I do for Ancestry.com. Also the page Blogs You Should Read is highly viewed. (Maybe I should update that!) But here, in order are my most read posts for the year: Treasure... Continue Reading →
This is two weeks worth of Follow Friday, since I missed last weeks. Lots of good reading in here! A couple of posts about uencounter.me: Uencounter.me -- A Way to Plot Cluster Genealogy Research (Geneabloggers) Mappy Monday - Fun with unencounter.me and an Upcoming Cool Feature Too! (Jana's Genealogy and Family History Blog) The mapping... Continue Reading →
So I've be blogging for a few months now and it has indeed been a lot of fun. I spent the last couple of days thinking about what kind of posts have gotten some of the best responses. Posts that have a story associated with them. Can be small snippet of a story of lengthy... Continue Reading →
I am prepping for my first CG attempt, which I hope to start sometime this year. One of the requirements is to write Narrative Lineage. I'm going to practice writing one for my paternal paternal line. Today, I'm going to write some informative paragraphs and a intro and end. I'm quite sure I'll rewrite them... Continue Reading →
Every generation has their own maiden aunts and bachelor uncles who leave behind no children and often there is no one left to tell their story. They truly become forgotten stories. I will devote Sunday to those Aunts and Uncles. Minnie Maude Gillespie was the oldest child of Wyatt Paul Gillespie and Laura Cecile Donald... Continue Reading →
I was asked a couple of days ago, “Why are city directories interesting?” It is a fair question. You find them, you attach them to your online tree or software program, and then you have a list of them. A list of them? Dreadfully boring . This is not interesting. It doesn’t tell me anything... Continue Reading →
I never knew my maternal grandfather, Howard Arthur Turner, as I lost contact with my mother and her side of the family when I was very young. One day I discovered his obituary on GenealogyBank.com and became intrigued with knowing more about him. From his obituary I learned he died on June 26, 1992 and... Continue Reading →
Wyatt Paul GILLESPIE was born at the end of the Civil War; his wife to be, Laura Cecile DONALD was born 11 years later. He grew up during Reconstruction and they lived their married life in Lexington, Virginia in the Jim Crow south. In 1907, for $400, they bought a home at 108 Houston Street from... Continue Reading →
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 4 brothers and 3 sisters? The oldest brother, Floyd, owned the farm which appeared to be family run. 1 The story we find... Continue Reading →