The Farmer Next Door In the 1880 census of Hootenville, Upson County, Georgia, the first entry reads: Birdsong Geo. P. Self M S W 38 GA Farmer The second entry is that for Matilda Manson and her son Otis. Their neighbor is George Preston Birdsong, born May 25, 1841, died 1905. (The Birdsong Family website [...]
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Breaking Down the House The most frustrating experience for a genealogist (or anyone else, come to think of it) is to run smack head-long into a brick wall. Genealogical brick walls are those mysterious deadends that seem to make one’s research goals impossible to attain. They’re frustrating because we know somebody must know the key [...]
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