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...]
Wordless Wednesday: My Great, Great-Grandmother's Grave is Found!
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...]
Finding the Colonel's Sword
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...]
Who Do I Think I Am?
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...]
Who Do I Think I Am?
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...]
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