Tag Archives: Eliza Burton
Motivational Monday: Genealogy Gems
Lately, I’ve felt too overwhelmed to focus on digging up any more of my roots. Instead, I’ve been digging through my present, trying to unpack the last boxes in our house from our move last year, get my youngest daughter … Continue reading
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Follow Friday: Stirling Family Register of Slaves
I wonder if Princeton University will give me some kind of honorary degree for all of the hours I’ve been logging in their microfilm library. In the past two weeks, I’ve been down there three times. (No easy feat with … Continue reading
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Wisdom Wednesday: Maya Angelou’s inspiration
This morning, I woke up feeling really blue and not just because of the weather. I spent several hours in the library yesterday with my cousin, Monique pouring through the Stirling Family Papers. The Stirlings owned my third great-grandmother, Eliza … Continue reading
Motivation Monday: Finding Ancestors in the Stirling Family Papers
Finally, the Stirling Family papers have arrived on five rolls of microfilm at my local library! The Stirling Family papers are a collection of deeds, wills, diaries of slave life, and letters that belonged to the Lewis Sterling family, owner … Continue reading
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Treasure Chest Thursday: Stirling Family Papers
Google is the gift that keeps on giving. After finding out that a Dr. Stirling owned some of my great, great-grandmother Tempy’s relatives, I punched his name and a few other facts into the search engine and was thrilled when … Continue reading
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Follow Friday: Finding my Enslaved Third Great-Grandmother
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wNklqfgInw&feature=geosearch] Yesterday, I shared with you all that I’d found another generation of my family tree. I now know that Eliza Burton was my third great-grandmother, a slave on a plantation in Attakapas, Louisiana and was owned by a Dr. … Continue reading
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Treasure Chest Thursday: Another enslaved ancestor found!
“I desire to find my people.” That’s how my great, great-grandmother Tempy Burton begins her June 4, 1891 ad in the Southwestern Christian Advocate. Known simply as the Southwestern, this paper was started in 1877 and covered the African Methodist … Continue reading
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