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A journal of adventures in genealogy; philosophy, personal observation, and research help. Primary surnames; Manson, Bowie, Gines, Brayboy, LeJay, Sanford, Bryant.
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The Discussion About Standards, Certification, Maturity, etc.
The first post on this series attracted a lot of notice. The series will continue after Christmas, as the judge prepares to decide whether to accept Jeanne Runner as an “expert” witness concerning genealogy. We’ll discuss the ...
The Discussion about Standards, Certification, Maturity, etc.: Useful or Divisive? Elitist Envy or Intellectual Inevitability?
Part I of Several Parts When I say in in my profile on this page, that I “literally have a checkered past,” that refers to both my ancestral background (as it would to most people) and to the fact that for complicated reasons, I have ...
Footnote.com Opens Their WWII Collection Free To The Public During December
I’ve been a fan of Footnote.com since they opened. I was very pleased to learn about their “interactive USS Arizona Memorial.” And that along with the rest of their World War II collection will be free for the rest of the month of...
Happy Birthday to the World’s Smartest Sister!
Two years ago, when my little sister had her (ahem!) most significant birthday yet, I wrote about her, in what I think was one of my best posts ever. Now, two years later, as we slip into that time of life where we spend a great deal of time cari...
Black Catholic History Month: The Knights of Who?
“Claverism” observes 100th Anniversary in USA Every Catholic and many a non- Catholic recognizes the name of the largest Catholic lay organization in the world, the Knights of Columbus. This is a group of “practical” Catholi...
Black Catholic History Month: Black Catholics in the South
The notion of black Catholics in the South is not often the subject of much discussion by anyone, anywhere. The southern United States is frequently thought of as having been settled largely by Scots-Irish and English people, not exactly fans of th...
Black Catholic History Month: The Josephite Fathers and Brothers
Earlier in the month, we discussed the life of Father Charles Uncles, the first black priest both trained and ordained in the United States. He was instrumental in the founding of the Society of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.  This order of priest...
The Florence Crittenton Homes
Adoptions and adoptees pose special problems for genealogists. And of course adoptees themselves have may have a difficult time tracing their genealogy. Last Saturday was National Adoption Day in fact it was the 10th anniversary of national adopt...
Black Catholic History Month: Preserving St Augustine’s Documents
Okay, the headline takes some liberty: we’re talking about saving Catholic records in St Augustine, Florida, America’s oldest city. But before we get to that, let’s understand why we’re covering this during Black Catholic Hi...
Black Catholic History Month:First Black Priest in the USA? A Third Contender
Last week I wrote about the question of the first black Catholic priest in America. I said the answer to that question depended upon who you asked. I now know that the answer to the question depends upon how the you ask the question! This is be...
Thank You to . . .
. . . Randy Seaver of Gena-Musings and Katie O’Hara of You Are Where You Came From, both of whom presented me with the Kreativ Blogger award in the past week! The rules are that a recipient must reveal seven thing about oneself and then pass t...
Black Catholic History Month: The Catholics in My Families
The number of black Catholics in the United States is small. I know this both anecdotally and empirically.  I was probably a teenager before I met another black Catholic family.  My parents, each for their own reasons, converted to Cathol...
Black Catholic History Month:Catholic Slaves in Maryland
Michael Hait picks up the story at the Examiner: http://www.examiner.com/x-8873-African-American-Genealogy-Examiner~y2009m11d12-Catholic-slaves-of-the-Carroll-family-of-Maryland ...
Resources Announcements from Digital Library of Georgia
I received two announcements from the Digital Library of Georgia yesterday. The first concerned their collection of newspapers: The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the free online availability of three historic Georgia newspapers: t...
Two Quick Bits about Internet Research
Green Light (meaning “good”!): I don’t know how I missed this one, but you can now order SS-5’s online from the Government using a credit card! Go to the Social Security Administration’s “Electronic Freedom of ...
Black Catholic History Month: The First African-American Priest
In recognition of Black Catholic Hisotry Month, we reprise a popular post from 2008. Originally Published at GeneaBlogie on Tuesday, February 12, 2008. Who was the first African-American Catholic Priest? The answer is . . . it depends on who you ask...
Black Catholic History Month: Gunsmoke & Catholic Genealogy
Originally appeared on Monday, November 13, 2006 at GeneaBlogie Updated: photo added; some dates corrected An almost sinful obsession of mine after genealogy is watching Gunsmoke [TVLand, most weekends; also early mornings during the week; check loc...
Black Catholic History Month
I’ll admit that I had forgotten that November is Black Catholic History Month! A reminder from Miriam on her monthly events calendar got my attention. Which goes to show the value of a diverse genea-blogger community: as I recall, Miriam gr...
Halloween Census Whacking
With the crisis of my father’s recent illness and the minor drama of my own, I feel like I’ve been way out of touch the last two weeks. It’s time get back into the flow of things.  I thought little census whacking for Hallowee...
BREAKING NEWS: Entire Census Going on Footnote.com
At this hour, Footnote.com is releasing details of its venture with the National Archives to digitize and make a searchable database of the entire set of available U.S. census population schedules from 1780 to 1930. Footnote.com presently has the c...
Confidential Marriage in the United States
Even If There Is No Record, There Still Might Be A Marriage Another issue for genealogists to consider is that of “confidential marriage.” In California, a couple who have lived together may obtain a so-called “confidential”...
Common Law Marriage: Scotland & Quebec
As I had hoped, some of our international correspondents checked in on this issue. Kirsty says: In Scotland, the situation was a bit different from England, or at least less clear. There seems to have been contradictory legislation and, I think,...
Common Law Marriage In the United States of America
When I discovered that my maternal grandparents likely had no marriage certificate, someone suggested that that meant they had a “common law” marriage.  Maybe, maybe not. The term “common law marriage” is frequently misunde...
A Vivid Childhood Memory: My Mother is Mugged for a Picture of Elvis
Randy Seaver’s “Saturday Night Genealogical Fun” calls for a vivid childhood memory. Two weeks before my birthday in 1958, we sailed out of New York harbor aboard the venerable USS General George M. Randall, headed for Bremerhaven, ...
The Mysteries of Adline Gines & Belle Wheeler
The more you learn, the more you don’t know. One of the men named Henry Gines (and that’s a whole other story) was married to a woman named Adline Gines.  Wanting to know more about her, I obtained her death certificate some time ago...
I Say Tomato, You Say Pearl Onion
Resolving Conflicting Data North Carolina? Arkansas? Alabama?  In the last post, we saw that all of these had been offered as possible birthplaces for my gg-grandfather, John Wesley Bowie.  I said I’d bet on Catahoula Parish, Louisian...
John Wesley Bowie was born . . . where??
Sunday Monday Tuesday Afternoon Take on Saturday Night Genealogical Fun: John Wesley Bowie (Yeah, it took awhile to get this together!) Randy Seaver at Genea-musings has made a relatively regular item a feature called “Saturday Night Genealogi...
Good Schools A Staple of Ancestors’ Lives
I really don’t have much in the way of photographs on my ancestors’ school days.  I have in the past posted school census records from the very early twentieth century in Milam County, Texas, where my gg-grandmother and her descendan...
GeneaBlogie Short Road Trip
Thanks to all for the kind words on our Blgoiversary! The feeling is mutual, I assure you. You know, every day some body starts a genealogy blog that will be interesting and appealing. And then there are thsoe would like to, but don’t know ...
Five Years and Still Going . . . .
I started this blog five years ago yesterday. How nice of everyone to take the day off in honor! I really had no idea what I was getting into at the time. I conceived of it as a place to update research, tell some family stories, report relev...
