I got interested in genealogy when I was fourteen-years-old and discovered a weathered lime green vertical file in my grandparents’ hutch. This folder of wonders was full of little booklets, family group sheets, and various other scraps of paper of dubious origin. To me, that was like finding a treasure chest. Who are these people?
I’m thrilled to announce that the book I wrote, SALTY DOG GOES TO DENIM DAY, is now on sales at the Cherokee County (Georgia) History Museum! Synopsis “When Mama forgets her lunch before work, her clever canine Salty Dog goes on a journey through 1960s Canton to return it to her. His final destination? The
I’ve been doing genealogy for 29 years and I just made my spookiest discovery yet. And on Friday the 13th! I’m in the middle of the Research Like a Pro Study Group with FamilyLocket (highly recommend), and one of my research plan action items involves Spartanburg District, SC Court of Common Pleas cases for a
That time I became the only genealogist in all the history of all the world to screw up a death date. Oops!
Well this is exciting! The thing about being a genealogist/historian is that there is no way you’re never going to be able to know everything about every location, every time period, or every research methodology. All you can do is attempt to keep educating yourself. And if you stick at it, you can reap wonderful
When I’m not researching history and genealogy, I’m pursuing a career in TV writing. But it doesn’t take a TV writer to tell you that this week’s episode of SUCCESSION was a banger. (Don’t watch SUCCESSION? First of all, do that! Second of all, bear with me.) The main character and monster presiding over the
Came across a funny Ancestry transcription error today that I, clearly a 11-year-old at heart, had to preserve for posterity. Reader, the original record says “Tents, Huts and Shelters.” But this was a chain gang so…
I’ve blogged that one of my ancestors living in the (later notorious) Forsyth County, Georgia had a 14-year-old Black child named Isaac Suthard living on his farm in 1880. I wrote that blog post 10 years ago, and at the time I just assumed that Isaac was a hired hand, in the same way that
I’ve transcribed another letter from Edith West Harris to her brother Paschal West and his wife Rebecca Westray West here. At the time, Edith had been abandoned by her husband, Zachariah T Harris and was living “at home” with her parents, Georgie and Jennet West. Paschal and Rebecca were living in Yell County, Arkansas after
Can you help me identify these Cherokee County, GA photos?