Don’t Ignore the Boarders
Using Census Records If you are building out a family tree, you are going to be confirming those trees with historical records and one record that you are very likely to reference is a census record. It’s a wealth of […]
Baby Up For Adoption – Classifieds
Checking the Classifieds I never would have thought to look in the newspaper and especially not the classifieds for information about my mom’s adoption case. That all changed when I learned about a birth mother who saw a picture […]
Using Obituaries In Your Search
Obituaries When I got to the point in my search where I was just one generation away from finding my mom’s birth mother, we had a stand still. Records on Ancestry and FamilySearch and other records sites were limited. After […]
2 People – 1 Tree
First let me give you a little update. My mom has gotten a new 2nd/3rd cousin with ties to the Blackwell/Johnston side of the family tree. His great great grandparents were Emma Johnston and William Blackwell and his great grandmother, Ardenia Blackwell […]
Adoptees, Family and Health History
It seems that all the families I’m tracing, trace down to Texas. On Ancestry, there is a database of Texas death certificates – which I find COMPLETELY interesting. No – this isn’t morbid. It gives me a little insight. See […]
23andMe results are in!
23andme Results I about jumped out of my skin when I got the email saying the results were done. In case you were wondering how long it took to get the 23andMe results back.. they received the sample on 10/3/14 […]
Johnston, Blackwell, Crotts, Worley
I feel like I’ve been working on this non-stop. But for good reason – I’m making progress. Just take a look. I’ve been able to add an entire branch with the names Crotts, Worley and Howard! Phew! It doesn’t seem like […]
Useful Members of Society -Letter From an Ancestor
I’ve been hard at work at making connections and digging into the past. Along my search, I came across a man by the name of Allen Martin (1801-1872). His father, John Martin Jr. was born in Ireland and came over […]
Blackwell – Johnston – New Connection
Challenge Accepted! We’ve all experienced it. You send a message to someone and they don’t understand what you are asking for and the conversation from then on out is just slow. Well, this type of situation led me to find […]