This was produced for the 17th edition of “Smile for the Camera”
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 descendants lived. But I know [...]
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Some Lessons from Our Pursuit of Egans Gines
We had started out to get past the brick wall of my great-grandfather, Richard William Gines, who was born in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, in about 1860. After years no success either on the ground (we visited Bossier Parish as well as Caddo Parish in 2004 to research this [...]
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I’ve written favorably about the vital records index at the Louisiana State Archives. It’s easy to use to look up information and it’s set up to make ordering certified copies by snail mail easy. Unlike Texas, Louisiana does not have an on-line ordering capability run by the state. But since they make everything else so [...]
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Is the honeymoon with the new year over already? I’m betting that by Monday morning, that’s what of us will be thinking!
But I’ve had a good first three days!
On the one hand, I missed the Carnival, which broke one of my resolutions, but it was unavoidable. Plagued by connectivity problems all week (which are now [...]
This was supposed to have been a post for the 4th Edition of Smile for the Camera at Shades of the Departed, but I missed the deadline. (Somewhere along the line, about three weeks ago, perhaps, I slid behind schedule and have been running to catch up! We’ll see what that means for the Games!). [...]
Lisa, who has the energy to write several interesting blogs, posed the question, “Where was your family in 1908?” on, appropriately enough, her 100 Years in America blog.
A century ago, neither of my paternal grandparents had been born yet, although one, my grandmother Jessie Beatrice Bowie, was just a year away. Her parents, my great-grandparents, [...]
A few weeks ago, I met a cousin from the Brayboy branch of the family at a genealogical conference in Sacramento. That was a very fulfilling meeting on a number of levels and I’m still processing some of the information she gave me. One thing, among many, about that chance meeting, was that it [...]
