Tag Archives: genealogy
Follow Friday: My Third Great Granddad’s College Blog
This week, I contacted administrators at Washington College, alma mater of my third great-grandfather, William R. Stuart to make arrangements for a visit. I found out that Stuart went to Washington College while reading his obituary written by his friend … Continue reading
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Monday Madness: Ancestral Property Found, Lost & Found Again
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-nrPgD3LIc&feature=channel] Ever since my cousin, Monique and I returned from our trip down to Ocean Springs, Mississippi to do some ancestry research, I’ve been thinking about all the property my ancestors accumulated and then lost. It was a source of … Continue reading
Treasure Chest Thursday: The Trip of a Lifetime
We found so much new information, and made so many happy memories, but here are five treasures from our dig that immediately come to mind: 5. Standing in front of the stained glass windows dedicated to my great, great-grandfather, Col. W.R. … Continue reading
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Tombstone Tuesday: Great, Great-Grandma’s Gussied Up Grave
While on our research trip last week to the Mississippi Gulf, my cousin Monique and I paid our respects to our ancestors’ graves, including great, great-grandma Tempy Burton’s located at the Evergreen Cemetery in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. We were overcome … Continue reading
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Searching Saturday: Still Tracing my Ancestors’ Footsteps
On the second leg of our Ancestry Tour today, my cousin Monique and I visited with my uncle, Henry, paid our respects to our ancestors at three different cemeteries, then bought some voodoo dolls. In the evening, we tracked our … Continue reading
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Treasure Chest Thursday: Six Degrees of Slave Owner Separation
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLIyuYwbVnA] It’s nice to be back from a great vacation where I unplugged from my computer and soaked up the surf and sun. Even though I wasn’t blogging or researching, genealogy was never too far from me. As we made … Continue reading
Treasure Chest Thursday: My Happy 101 Award
Now that my daughters are out of school (and it’s 93 degrees!), it really feels like summer. I’ll be checking in less frequently, but I’ll still be digging up my history between digging in the sand and lying in the … 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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Monday Madness: My Serious Slave-Owning Ancestor
In the past year, I’ve often wondered just how big a slave owner was my second great-grandfather, Col. W.R. Stuart and just how much property did he amass. To my mind, the fewer slaves he owned, the easier it might … Continue reading
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