July 2010 Blog Posts (47)

I received an email from Ancestry today with “Possible record matches” in the subject line. Those of you who use Ancestry know that they give you hints, with little green leaves indicating some sort of match in their records, whether it be in another tree, a historical record, etc. This email contained three such hints. Sometimes . . . → : CONTINUE…

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I need some one to siper a document for me . It is my grandfather baptism or some kind of birth record. contact me direct at bumberjack62@yahoo.com so i can send a copy of it to you.

Does anyone have information on Thomas Lindsey (born ca. 1750 in Cork, Ireland. Family tradition says he was son of James? Lindsey, owner of a linen mill in County Cork. I have found a lease agreement between a Thomas Lindsey a clothier of Macroom in Co. Cork dated 1756. Lessee was aged about 35 years and had a son Thomas Lindsey the Younger, aged about 4. Could my Thomas be the Thomas Lindsey Jr. mentioned in the deed? Thomas married Rebecca Harris of the parish of Canavee (just… Continue

Monteville Roberts owned and operated, with the help of family, the combined business establishment of a mill for grinding corn into meal and wheat into flour, a blacksmith shop, and general repair shop, all of which were vitally essential to the people. The combined enterprise, in Hamilton County, Tennessee, provided a flourishing business a home . . . → :…

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A story for the Fourth of July!

Fifteen or twenty years ago, when my daughter was in elementary school, we visited Philadelphia Pennsylvania. We toured the city, saw the Liberty Bell and Ben Franklin’s house, and ate some cheese steak sandwiches. Of course we didn’t miss Independence Hall, either. The tour was guided, and when we came to the room where the Continental Congress…

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I visited New Prospect Church Cemetery on Saturday. I knew that some Tuckers were buried there, because I had found headstone photos on Find-a-Grave for Churchwell Branch Tucker and his wife Rosamond. I also had found a listing last week for E. M. Ellis on the Murray County Cemeteries website; the dates were very close to . . . → : CONTINUE…

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I've posted here before about the free browser toolbar that I created, that is all genealogy websites, making it so much easier to do genealogy research online. (If you havent heard about it, its free, no ad/spy/malware - and every site on it is handpicked, or recommended to me). Anyway, I was adding a few sites to the Internet Genealogy browser toolbar this morning and happened to check the stats on… Continue