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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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KENNEDY v. UPSHAW and another, Supreme Court of Texas, June 18, 1886.

Posted in legal, tagged , on September 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Ok, I think I’ve just about figured out what this document says!
First of all, I have uploaded it here as a .pdf, so if any of you legal-minded folks out there (Hi, Craig!) would like to take a look at it and tell me what you think, feel free!
Kennedy v Upshaw
Also, this whole situation has [...]

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Her crowning glory?

Posted in events, tagged , , , on September 8, 2008 | Comments Off

Well, I guess it blocks a bit of sun, at least:

This lady is my third great-grandmother, Susan William Lee Martin Kennedy. She was the wife of Dr Nathan Blunt Kennedy, one of my Civil War surgeon ancestors. I guess as the spouse of a prominent physician in the Hill County, Texas of the 1800’s, Mrs. [...]

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Just a reminder to myself

Posted in research sites, tagged , on July 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The Library of Virginia website has many online bible records- the scanned images. There are a lot of Lee bible images. Are they my Lees? I sure hope so, so I want to make this a reminder to search their records in depth when I look at my Lee ancestors. I hope to find Robert [...]

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A very interesting find

Posted in census, tagged , on April 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »

While searching the 1860 Federal Census for Lauderdale County, Mississippi looking for Susan Martin, I found a 2nd enumeration for Dr John F Kennedy! I had previously found him listed with his brother, Dr Sidney P Kennedy and his family, living in Beat No 2 in Lauderdale County. In the second mention, also in Beat [...]

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Susan is still in hiding!

Posted in census, tagged , on April 29, 2008 | Comments Off

A few days ago, I began a page-by-page search of the 1860 Federal Census for Sumter Country, Alabama, looking for my 3rd great-grandmother, Susan William Lee Martin, and her family. I had reason to believe that Sumter County was their home immediately prior to the beginning of the Civil War. Well…apparently not! Tonight I finished [...]

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