Category Archives: slavery
Treasure Chest Thursday: Thanks to Ancestry.com, Another Cousin, Found!
My cousin Monique is now the queen of all Internet searches. It was her voracious searching that turned up my second great-grandfather’s Civil War era sword on ebay, a portrait of one of our ancestors at the Maryland Historical Society … Continue reading
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Friend of Friend Friday: Slaves of Alexander Stirling
I found the above will in the Lewis Stirling Family Papers, archived at the Louisiana State University. The Stirling family, wealthy Louisiana planters, owned my third great-grandmother, Eliza Burton. I’ve been scrolling through the microfilmed documents hoping that they will … Continue reading
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Motivation Monday: My Weekly Genealogy Goals
With my children finally back in school, I can return my attention for at least part of the day to shaking my family tree. My cousin and I have made a lot of progress since we started searching together last … Continue reading
Madness Monday – Was My Ancestor Lynched?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs] Yesterday, I shared how my great, great-grandfather escaped the Ku Klux Klan. Well, not all of my relatives may have been so lucky. A few weeks ago I heard a new family story – that one of my great, … Continue reading
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Wordless Wednesday: A Family Memento
The silver child’s cup that I’m holding left me speechless as did the sentiment behind it when Joel Brink gave it to me during our first meeting this past Sunday. Joel is an art historian who has published several books … Continue reading
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Wordy/Wordless Wednesday: My Great, Great-Grandmother's Appraisal
I’m not quite up to the task of expressing my thoughts upon seeing this document. Nothing, not even seeing my great, great-grandmother bequeathed in a will drives home the true state of her situation as does this 1860 probate court … Continue reading
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Wordless Wednesday: A Confederate's Monument to His Slave
As I mentioned in an earlier post, while the Howcott/Howcutt family are not blood relatives, our families are connected. Their ancestor, Hill Jones is the earliest owner I can find of my great, great-grandmother, Temple Burton. William Hill Howcott, Hill … Continue reading
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Monday Madness – Dealing with Ancestral Anger
One of my friends sent me an encouraging note today, complementing this blog before posing the following question: “Doesn’t it make you angry to uncover this stuff? Even just the language that is used in some of these documents- “sale” … Continue reading
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Surname Saturday – The Burton Family
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 … Continue reading
Tips from the Carnival of African-American Genealogy
I spent this morning reading blog posts submitted to the Carnival of African-American Genealogy. This blog carnival, designed to bring bloggers together around a specific topic, focused on how to use slave records in genealogical research. I had to pull … Continue reading
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