This week has been insane. I’m one of the (least-effective) organizers of the Canton Festival of the Arts and our big event is down for tomorrow and Sunday (May 18th and 18th) from 10am-5pm. If you are anywhere near Canton, Georgia, it’s an excellent event. I’m especially looking forward to the photographers, jewelry makers, southern authors and
And I mean, literally, how to go there and research the Forsyth County, Georgia Probate and Land Records. I’ve been to each office one time so I’m by no means an expert on these records but I thought I would try and help any researcher who comes behind me. So here’s my little, not guaranteed
I don’t even know if I should post this, but what the heck. Facts are facts… Do you know when you get those little nagging feelings that you’re not done researching? That there’s something out there that you really want to see? Long story short, one of my great-grand-grandfathers married twice. Being a bit of a completist,
It’s Friday again! And that means my only job today is to point out all of the other awesome blogs, posts and sites I’ve encountered during the week. Without further ado… Blogs & Sites Yesterday I became enamored with Many Branches, One Tree. Maybe this is because I’m very interested in Mexico and Mexican history
I’ve been slack on blogging because I’ve been doing lots of actual work – genealogical and otherwise. Yesterday, I finally made the hour drive to to poke around in Forsyth County’s land records. Though I haven’t yet found where my ancestor George W. West actually bought his land, I did find where he was selling it off
It’s Derby Day! I aim to blog almost every day, and I don’t want to let a supremely busy weekend confound me. Last night I went with good friends down to the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta to see Iris Dement. If you don’t know her, she’s a country/folk singer from Arkansas. She closed the show
So I started my genealogy blog last Saturday. In that week, these are the things I found that surprised, impressed or amused me, and I thought I’d share… Posts As someone obsessed with words and their colorful meanings, I was enamored with Old Diseases: Early Medical Terms in Historical Newspapers on GenealogyBank.com. Having recently come
As I mentioned in a previous post, 1928 was rough for my West family. Their patriarch had died the year before, and their matriarch and two sons – including my Papa Ed’s father – all died in 1928. We’ve had years like that in my lifetime, so I know they were not happy campers back
Family history research is not cheap. These are just a few of the things I’ve spent money on in order to do family research in my time: Books Copies of documents (some courthouses charge as much as $1.00/copy) Ancestry.com membership Ordering records Travel to research Tape and records to record interviews (back in the day)