This blog post was inspired by a conversation on Facebook with my cousin Leisa Wilkie (another awesome family & local historian!) and some of her friends. Leisa is the authority on ghosts and scary tales in Canton, Georgia. Be sure to like her Facebook page Canton Ghosts or take the Canton Ghost Tour. When I
I’m planning a genealogy trip to upper South Carolina this summer and when I go, I have to admit that I will Couchsurf if I possibly can. When you first tell people about Couchsurfing they generally have one of two reactions: 1.) They’re intrigued 2.) They think it’s insane and dangerous (I’m looking at you,
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,
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)