The following article about Thomasville, NC was sent to me by another Lambeth researcher. It is quite lengthy so I will be posting it in three parts. It is taken from:
-M. Jewell Sink and Mary G. Matthews, assisted by James Hoover originally published in Historical gleanings of Davidson County, North Carolina. By Davidson County Bicentennial [...]
As with most families we all have our share of unlabeled photographs. Genealogist all know how frustrating this can be and a near impossible problem to fix, especially when dealing with photos from the 1880’s. Needless to say anyone who could identify these photos has long since passed away. My only resource for getting these [...]
I have seen this before and thought I would post it here, let’s call it a little Monday humor!
I went searching for an ancestor; I cannot find him still.
He moved around from place to place and did not leave a will.
He married where a courthouse burned. He mended all his fences.
He avoided any man who [...]
As promised here is the report from the Cass/Bluegrass Cemetery in Montgomery County, IL. The Cass Cemetery is located on private property and deep in the woods. The cemetery is a good ½ to ¾ of a mile hike, it is very overgrown and many of the stones are covered in several inches of soil [...]
We just returned from Montgomery County, Illinois where we revisited two family cemeteries. Three years ago we visited the Roberts Cemetery just outside of Honey Bend, IL and the Cass/Bluegrass Cemetery. When we last visited many of the stones were very weathered, broken or partially buried in the ground. The weather was also very [...]
In the past few months I have discovered Google Books. Google books are scans of original books you can read online; I have found some family and county histories on this site. Genealogists know one of the biggest road blocks to research is proximity. There have been many times I hoped the information I needed [...]
From the:
HISTORY OF DAVIESS COUNTY: Encyclopedia of Useful Information & Actual Facts, its Contains-its Pioneer Record, War History,
Resources, Biographical Sketches & Portraits of Prominent Citizens, Incidents, etc.
868p. (Birdsall & Dean; 1882) 1997.
Pages 833-834
John W. Black was born in Boone County, Missouri, February 11, 1833, His father was a native of Virginia, and migrated to [...]
I took advantage of being home sick today (sinus infection) to work on backing up my databases and entering information and photos many other researchers had e-mailed me over the last year. With the database melt down back in May I was hesitant to update some of the families until I was sure the [...]
