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. [Her name is spelled "Adline" on her death certificate and I've seen [...]
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Remember the The Wrong Longs?
Third in a multi-part series
One of my other great-grandfathers on my mother’s side was named James William Long. As with Richard William Gines, I set out to find the parents of James Long. That search seemed like a stroll in the park compared to this one! I quickly found a James [...]
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Second in a multi-part series
Here’s a synopsis of how I achieved my #1 research goal: finding the parents of my great-grandfather, Richard Gines of Shreveport, Louisiana. Bear in mind that eahcof these steps took months or even years to complete and some ran concurrently.
Step 1: The Neophyte Phase. I was new to genealogical research and [...]
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First in a multi-part series
I started my serious research in December of 2003. From the beginning, my leading goal was to discover the paternity of Richard Gines of Shreveport,Louisiana, my great-grandfather. I knew very little about him; until I was an adult, I had never heard his name. And then, over the years, my mother [...]
Sometimes when you run up against a brick wall, you may have to go a long way in a parallel or perpendicular path to get around the brick wall. True in physics, true in life, true in genealogy.
In illustration of that point, we’ve been trying for a long time to get past the brick wall [...]
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Finally! Back in January, I ordered from Amzaon.com the book, Biographical & Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana, originally published in 1890 by Southern Publishing Co. For several months, I kept getting notices from Amazon that shipping would delayed and they would give a date range during which it would ship. All truned out to wrong [...]
I started this with a note on Facebook and it was suggested that it would make a good meme for bloggers. The idea is to publicize your surnames and locales to see if anyone elseknows something about them. For me on Facebook, I got several research-helpful replies. So how much better to take it to [...]
Seems it’s been a while since we did any hard genealogy here. The best way
to handle that is simply to just jump into it. Our subject today is one of
my most resistant brickwalls. I’m going to describe my research and solicit
ideas about how to proceed.
So as they used to say on that early 1960s game [...]
