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Getting Back to Some Hard Genealogy
It took a near-disaster in the form of a hard disk failure to bring me back to doing some basic genealogy. I took me a week to recover and reassemble my files, which had been backed up onto three different systems. The redundancy was a fortunate thing born out of some lethargy in organization. As a fortuitous happenstance, I lost …
October 5, 2011 Wednesday at 5:26 pm
Grand Genealogy Journey: My Kansas City Families
The Gines Family My closest relatives in Kansas City would be in the Gines family, descendants 0f Richard and Sylvia Gines of Shreveport, Louisiana, (who, as far as anyone knows, never set foot in Kansas City). Two of Richard and Sylvia’s sons, William Edward Gines (1898-1955) and Henry William Gines (1903-1980) left Shreveport in 1920 and headed for Kansas City. …
September 27, 2010 Monday at 7:06 pm
Happy Mother’s Day, Haplogroup L3!
Yes, a genetic genealogy remembrance of Mitochrondrial DNA Day! Here are my mothers (my matrilineage), as far as I know them, with their spouse’s name in [ ]: Lillian Gines (living)[H.V. Manson] Annie Florida Corrine Long (b. 1902, Kansas City, MO; died 1986, Kansas City, MO)[Wm. E. Gines Mary Elizabeth Johnson (b. 1870, Clay County, MO; died 1946, Kansas City, …
May 9, 2010 Sunday at 12:39 pm
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 Catholicism as teenagers. They did not know each other at the times of their conversions. My mother was raised as the …
November 16, 2009 Monday at 7:32 pm
My DNA Adventure, Part II: The Search for Sarah Gilbert
When last we met, I had been going over the results of my DNA submission to the DNAAncestry.com project. Frankly, nothing I saw came as any huge surprise. My Y-DNA places my ancient ancestry in West Africa; my mtDNA also seems to be grounded in West Africa. There were three “exact matches” on my mtDNA results. All three of …
April 21, 2009 Tuesday at 8:42 pm
Names, Places & Most Wanted Faces
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 a wider audience. List the …
February 26, 2009 Thursday at 8:29 pm
Ancestry.com Adds Lincoln & Civil War Docs
This announcement on the 24/7 Family History Circle blog today: PROVO, UTAH – Feb. 12, 2009 – Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online resource for family history, announced today it will commemorate the 200th birthday of one of the nation’s greatest Presidents – Abraham Lincoln – with the addition of five new databases to its Civil War Collection. This historically significant …
February 12, 2009 Thursday at 6:40 pm
Decoration Day Roll Call
Today, we honor our war dead. If I could, I would be placing decorations on the following family veterans gravesites: Charles Troy Bowie (1915-1945), U.S. Army, Epinal American Cemetery, Epinal, France. Rene C. Mischeaux (1948-1969), U.S. Army, Golden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno, California They both gave “the last full measure of devotion” in service to our nation. While we’re …
May 26, 2008 Monday at 1:32 pm
An Indirect Lead to The Elusive Sarah Gilbert?
In the last post, I mention Ancestry.com’s excellent collection entitled, “Missouri Marriages 1805-2002.” As I tried it out, I may have come across an indirect lead to my elusive ancestor, Sarah Gilbert. The only matters of record that I have ever found concerning Sarah Gilbert are her 1867 marriage to Ezekiel Johnson in Clay County, Missouri, and her residence with …
April 19, 2008 Saturday at 12:49 am
Where Were They in 1808?
Awhile ago, the challenge issued by Lisa was to describe where one’s ancestors were in 1908. I blogged about that here. Now the topic is where one’s ancestors were in 1808. Many bloggers have written about this already; I’m just getting caught up. 1808 was a signal year for some of my families. That was the year that Congress banned …
January 28, 2008 Monday at 3:51 am
