
This is a cautionary tale about reading what is there and not making assumptions. Fortunately, in this case, I didn’t lose years of research or spend time randomly driving around York County, […]
This is a cautionary tale about reading what is there and not making assumptions. Fortunately, in this case, I didn’t lose years of research or spend time randomly driving around York County, […]
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 […]
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 […]
I’ve talked about my grandmother, Jennie Elizabeth Payne in past posts: How Eight Children Ended Up Living Alone in 1930 and The Questions a Record Begs Us to Ask I’ve always had […]
I am a perpetual student because the world is a limitless place. — Elissa Scalise Powell I had the honor of being in Elissa’s class when I was a student in the […]
My Uncle Paul loved Andy Griffith, especially the Andy Griffith show. He says all of life lessons could be learned from the show. It seemed to be a simpler time back then […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]