Posted in legal on Sep 9th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in events on Sep 8th, 2008
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. [...]
Posted in timelines on Jul 9th, 2008
A few months ago I experimented with an online timeline application called xtimeline that I used to create a timeline for Dr N B Kennedy’s Civil War service. It created a pretty good timeline, nothing fancy, though.
Yesterday I read about another timeline application, timetoast. It is also free, so I signed up for an account. [...]
Posted in in the news on Jul 7th, 2008
I have been spending a lot of time in recent weeks studying a couple of my Civil War ancestors. Issac Turner fought for the Union with the 4th Tennessee Mounted Infantry and Dr Nathan Blunt Kennedy tended to the Confederate sick and wounded with the 27th Alabama Infantry Regiment. The military records of the two [...]
Posted in research sites on Jul 3rd, 2008
This evening, I finally got a chance to really examine the Confederate records of my 3rd great grand-uncle, Dr John F Kennedy. Most of the 50 documents that I downloaded from Footnote.com a few days ago are pay vouchers and the like. But one document in particular grabbed my attention:
Notice his signature and what is [...]
Posted in publishing on Jul 1st, 2008
…are now available at the Bluebonnet Country Genealogy Library!
The “rewrite” went much faster than I thought it would, so I uploaded it this morning.
Posted in publishing on Jun 30th, 2008
I have been fighting (literally, it seems!) with OpenOffice Writer for 2 days! I have been trying to put together an ebook of Dr N B Kennedy’s Civil War service, and Writer has been bucking me all the way. It’s probably me, as I have never taken so much as one “office” class, such as [...]
Posted in publishing, research sites on Jun 26th, 2008
…downloading Dr John F Kennedy’s NARA file to my hard drive, along with all the other goodies I have found on Footnote in the past several days. Why? You see, it’s like this….(remember the Saturday Night Live skits about Wayne’s World? The part where Wayne and Garth fade away into their day dreams (usually about [...]
Posted in research sites on Jun 21st, 2008
To start off with, I’m a bit slow sometimes…
I know that Footnote.com has the Confederate Civil War records for several states and also for their officers “at large”, those men “who did not belong to any particular regiment, separate company or comparable unit, or special corps.” But I thought that these databases where only indexes. [...]
Posted in publishing on Jun 19th, 2008
It was so much fun turning Isaac Turner’s pension file into a book that I have decided to do the same thing with Dr N B Kennedy’s Civil War service records. I have already created 7 pages (doing it right the first time!), so stay tuned!
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