Bluebonnet Country Genealogy

I have been researching the Stanley Family, and they are actually a pretty interesting group. Even though my mother was a Stanley, and I actually knew several of my Stanley ancestors, I have already learned quite a bit. For instance: My great-grandfather, John Thomas Stanley, was very active in the banking industry in Fort Worth, [...]

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I was just visiting Steve Danko’s genealogy blog and he had a neat little map that shows where his blog’s visitors are located from around the world. It might be interesting to see where my visitors are from, in relation to my specific genealogy and surnames. For example, my Stanley ancestors came to Texas from [...]

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I have started working on the Stanley family. This will be a bit different, as my great-grandfather, John Thomas Stanley, was adopted after he and his older brother Henry were abandoned as small children.
No one in my family has any idea who my great-grandfather’s parents might have been, or anything about his “blood” ancestry. I [...]

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Wow, I have gotten so many articles from GenealogyBank.com! 50 so far, including: obits from the Dallas Morning News for my great-great grandfather Miles F Stanley from 1935 and my great-great-great grandfather Dr Nathan B Kennedy from 1897, a ghost story from Dr Kennedy, a story of attempted blackmail against Mile F Stanley, and even [...]

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I read Dick Eastman’s Online Genealogy blog daily, and today he mentioned a new database at GenealogyBank.com. So, I checked this site, and discovered that it has a lot of old newspapers, including the Dallas Morning News and the Fort Worth Star Telegram.Well, just to see what would happen, I put in [...]

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