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A letter to the Knights

Posted in general research, tagged on July 5, 2009 | Comments Off

Last night I stumbled onto the Knights of Pythius website. What’s a “Knights of Pythius”, you say?
The Order of Knights of Pythias is an international, non-sectarian fraternal order, established in 1864 in Washington, DC, by Justus H. Rathbone and was the first fraternal order to be chartered by an Act of Congress.
The Fraternal Order of [...]

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Smile For The Camera: All Creatures Great and Small

Posted in events, tagged , on May 8, 2009 | 4 Comments »

The word prompt for the 13th Edition of Smile For The Camera is All Creatures Great And Small. Show us a photograph of the family pet. The pet that made it into every family snapshot. That pampered pet your ancestors took to the photographic studio to immortalize in an expensive photograph. The best friend who [...]

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Create your own eBooks

Posted in publishing, tagged , on April 16, 2009 | Comments Off

Several months ago, I wrote a couple of eBooks about Isaac Turner’s and Nathan Blunt Kennedy’s Civil War experiences. I created these at Lulu for free. I thought at the time they turned out pretty well.
So this morning when I read about a site for creating and storing ebooks for free, I decided to check [...]

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Names, Places & Most Wanted Faces (meme)

Posted in events, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 28, 2009 | Comments Off

On Thomas’s Destination: Austin Family:
Craig Manson over at Geneablogie has started a new meme which I think is important since it gets the surnames in my genealogy research info out into the blogosphere.  As Craig put it:
“List the surnames you are researching and the general localities. Then tell the names of your “Most Wanted Ancestors,” [...]

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Another piece of the puzzle!

Posted in general research, tagged , , on February 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »

I was wandering around Footnote and decided to check the Texas Death Records database. I check it every few weeks, looking for new additions.
Guess who I found? My 3rd great-grandmother Susan William Lee Martin’s 1918 death certificate!

Oops, just found my great-grandfather John T Stanley’s death certificate, too!
If anyone has relatives who died in Texas 1890-1976, [...]

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Tombstone Tuesday

Posted in events, tagged on December 16, 2008 | Comments Off

Robert Lee Kennedy
(infant son of Dr & Mrs Nathan B Kennedy)
21 Jun 1877
Hillsboro, Hill, TX
10 Feb 1878
Hillsboro, Hill, TX
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Hillsboro City Cemetery
Hillsboro, TX

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“Was Rather Ghostly”

Posted in events, tagged on October 31, 2008 | Comments Off

“A Physician’s Experience in a  Cemetery When He Was Young and Poetically Inclined.
Hillsboro, Hill Co, Tex, Jan 28.- Dr N. B. Kennedy, in conversation with The News reporter to-day said:
“The account of that graveyard haunt of Col. Williams that you published in The News reminded me very pointedly of a graveyard experience I had when [...]

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