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Surname Saturday – The Burton Family

March 20, 2010 By dionneford 6 Comments

After finding my great, great-grandmother Temple Burton's tombstone this week, it seems right to focus on the surname Burton for Surname Saturday. According to a myriad of ancestry and genealogy sites on the internet, Burton is of  English origin and means "settlement by a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: African American History, family history, geneology, Multiracial families, slavery, Uncategorized Tagged With: Burton, surnames

Wordless Wednesday: My Great, Great-Grandmother's Grave is Found!

March 17, 2010 By dionneford Leave a Comment

Appropriate that it is Wordless Wednesday in the genealogy blogosphere because I am speechless over the pictured tombstone. I didn't know a tombstone for Tempe Burton, my great, great-grandmother even existed until my cousin, Monique Smith Anderson forwarded this picture last … [Read more...]

Filed Under: African American History, family, family history, geneology, Multiracial families, Uncategorized Tagged With: Evergreen Cemetery, Find A Grave, MS

Finding the Colonel's Sword

March 6, 2010 By dionneford Leave a Comment

My cousin is a great searcher.  She'll exhaust every page of a google search, unlike me.  If I don't find what I'm looking for after the second page, I assume the item in question is just not meant to be found.  Bad researching, I know. But my cousin's persistence is how she … [Read more...]

Filed Under: family, family history, geneology, Multiracial families, slavery, Uncategorized Tagged With: Col. W.R. Stuart, surnames

Who Do I Think I Am?

March 5, 2010 By dionneford Leave a Comment

An unlikely Daughter of the Confederacy. The above sword belonged to my second great-grandfather, Col. W.R. Stuart.  My fourth cousin found it not long before she found me on ancestry.com.  At first, because of Stuart's Colonel title, I thought it was a Civil War issued sword … [Read more...]

Filed Under: family history, geneology, Multiracial families, race, slavery, Uncategorized Tagged With: Daughters of the Confederacy, Knights of Pythias, Who Do You Think You Are?

Who Do I Think I Am?

March 5, 2010 By dionneford Leave a Comment

An unlikely Daughter of the Confederacy. The above sword belonged to my second great-grandfather, Col. W.R. Stuart.  My fourth cousin found it not long before she found me on ancestry.com.  At first, because of Stuart's Colonel title, I thought it was a Civil War issued sword … [Read more...]

Filed Under: family history, geneology, Multiracial families, race, slavery, Uncategorized Tagged With: Daughters of the Confederacy, Knights of Pythias, Who Do You Think You Are?

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