Posted in Happy Dance Time!, research sites on Jun 7th, 2008
Yesterday I posted that the Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 database had returned to the FamilySearch Record Search site, after a brief trip into cyberland. I had just made a quick check, saw that the database was back, then I had to go to work. Well, I just got home from work and was checking my Bloglines, [...]
Posted in Happy Dance Time!, research sites on Jun 4th, 2008
Also known as “The-Civil-War-Union-Pension-File-of-Isaac-Turner-Just-Arrived-
And-It-Only-Took-19-Days-Instead-Of-42-To-120-Calendar-Days
-To-Get-Here” Dance!
I’m so excited, and so proud of myself, too! Why excited? I’ll get to that in just a sec…
Why so proud of myself? Because I was cutting the grass in my front yard when the very nice UPS man arrived with said Pension File…and I finished cutting the grass before I [...]
Posted in Happy Dance Time!, images on May 16th, 2008
May I introduce my second great-grandparents, Dr Nathan Blunt Kennedy and Susan William Lee Martin Kennedy!
A few weeks ago, my cousin Susan gave me some old photos scanned onto a disc, that she was using for a family project. Several of the images I already had, but there were also several that I had never [...]
Posted in Happy Dance Time! on May 3rd, 2008
One of the first death certificates that I obtained when I first began to research my family tree was that of my great-grandmother, Ruth (Carroll) Carr. Her father, as listed on the death certificate, was John Spurgeon. A bit of research indicated that his name was actually John Spurgeon Carroll. The lesson here is that [...]
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