Smile For The Camera: All Creatures Great and Small

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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Dovie update

I’m so excited! When I got home from work last night (actually 1:30 this morning), I found an email from Ruth from Carter Co, OK, a very nice RAOGK (Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness) volunteer, containing the marriage certificate of Dovie McBurnett and Husband-#-1-And-My-Great-Grandfather William Earl Hall!

Also, a couple of days ago I found a [...]

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3 down, 2 to go

I have definitively documented 3 of Dovie McBurnett’s husbands, and tentatively a fourth, and the good news is…
SHE DIDN’T OUTLIVE THEM ALL!
No “black widow” at work here after all
Husband #1- my great-grandfather William Earl Hall, linked to Dovie:

1910 Federal Census
Chickasaw Nation Marriages 1895-1907
Victor Earl Hall (my grandfather) birth certificate
Delbert Eugene Hall (my great [...]

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Smile for the Camera!

The word prompt for the 11th Edition of Smile For The Camera is brothers & sisters? Were they battling brothers, shy little sisters, or was it brother & sister against the world? Our ancestors often had only their siblings for company. Were they best friends or not?

From CARR

Jack Dixon Carr & Mamie Inez Carr Clark
my [...]

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Wordless Wednesday

From Stanley

Home of
Miles Francis Stanley, Sr
Mineral Wells, Palo Pinto, Texas

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Names, Places & Most Wanted Faces (meme)

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!

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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