…so it’s back to research!
I’ve returned to my Appling’s of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. This morning I found the Civil War Service Records (Confederate) for 4 of William Appling’s sons at footnote.com. I normally wouldn’t be researching this far laterally from my direct line, but I simply can’t resist anything Civil War! Most of these are [...]
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I have been studying my Appling ancestors and have found William Appling (the father of Dr F B Appling) in the 1860 Mortality Schedule for Tuscaloosa Co, AL. He is the first ancestor that I have ever found in a Mortality Schedule, so it’s kinda exciting! He is listed in the Index from Ancestry, so [...]
A child’s death
Posted in census on Jul 31st, 2008
I have been researching my Appling ancestors from NC, GA and AL. I came across this entry in the US Federal Mortality Schedule for 1850:
Notice the cause of death…
A headstone photo
Posted in research sites on Jul 25th, 2008
A huge Thank You to Linda Goebel and the folks at Find A Grave. I now have an image of the headstone of Dr F B Appling, and an obit!
…while admiring the Chart Chick’s wonderful genealogy charts presented at Shades of the Departed…
I decided it was really time for me to do some actual research. So, after blow-drying my laptop, I got to examining my Appling ancestors from Tuscaloosa Co, Alabama. The Applings married into my Stanley family (my Mom was a Stanley). I [...]
The previous post presents a dilemma: How does one handle an adoption when researching one’s ancestry?
As I have said previously, my great-grandfather John Thomas Stanley and his brother Henry Thomas Fair were abandoned as small children and found by my great-great grandfather Miles Francis Stanley. Miles and his wife Maryland adopted John and Maryland’s sister [...]
An exciting find!
Posted in research sites on May 30th, 2007
I have started with the surname folders, alphabetically. On Saturday, I added all the info from the Appling file to my FTM database and carefully documented everything. They are a “lesser” family, as far as my direct lines go, so that job didn’t really take long. Next was the Bennett file. There is a whole [...]
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