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30 Mothers in 30 Days: Vashita
Have you ever looked at an old 1700's ship manifest looking at the names of the female passengers?Probably not, but I have. A pattern emerges - Ann, Mary, Jane, Ann, Mary, Jane, Sarah, Elizabeth, Ann,...
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30 Mothers in 30 Days: Joyce
Today is Mother's Day. In the Honor of the many Mothers in my Family Tree, I'm posting on one each day.Today I honor my closest Mother, my own.Nancy Joyce Davis was born on March 3, 1939 in Albemarle,...
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30 Mothers in 30 Days: Caroline
I believe we all have many different kinds of female ancestors climbing our family trees. Some were straight-laced and extremely pious, purest vessles of godliness and matronly sainthood. Others were...
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30 Mothers in 30 Days: Susie
This post on Susan Webster Faulkner is a fishing expedition. Let's get this out there from the start.She's a brickwall for me, and one of my second Great Grandmothers. It's quite frustrating, because I...
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30 Mothers in 30 Days: Betsy
Elizabeth "Betsy' Broadway Carpenter was my 5th Great Grandmother. Her claim to fame was her longetivity. She lived to be 101, her lifespan covering nearly the entirety of the 19th century.The Stanly...
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30 Mothers in 30 Days: Nancy???...Or, The Mystery of Calvin Webster
Yesterday, my focus was on a 3rd Great Grandmother of mine, Susan Webster Faulkner, seen in some of her children's documents as "Susie". I hadn't nailed her down, yet. But as I often do, I followed my...
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30 Mothers in 30 Days : Martha
Not just anyone could get their name in The Southern Christian Advocate. Published during the 1800's, the Advocate was the official publication for several southern states, including North and South...
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30 Mothers in 30 Days: Keziah Elizabeth
Genetic genealogy is a rather new frontier for us genealogy addicts. I'm still glogging through it like a kindergartener, but I've found some interesting things. Like a brother. In England. And when he...
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30 Mothers in 30 Days: Penelope
Penelope Blow was my 7th Great Grandmother. At that level of generations, she would be in the company of about 512 other ladies normally, but in my case, because of endogamy in my family tree,...
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30 Mothers in 30 Days: Judith
Burris Family Tree by descendant Pam HolbrookWhen I type the name Judith Taylor into my family tree, the same exact lady comes up not once, not twice, but 4 times! That is because I have 4 separate...
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Thru-lines Comes Thru
Ok, so this isn't one of my Mother's Day posts, but it pertains to two of my Mother's Day posts.I've been focusing on various female ancestors in my family tree from varying generations. Up until this...
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30 Mothers in 30 Days: Sally
My 3rd Great Grandfather left me one clue on who his mother was in the marriage certificate of his second marriage to Abigail Furr Starnes, widow of his cousin, John Starnes. He named his parents as...
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30 Mothers in 30 Days: Harriett
Harriet Catherine Means had been born into an esteemed family of privilege in the social clockwork of antebellum Mecklenburg County North Carolina.Her maternal grandfather, the Presbyterian minister,...
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30 Mothers in 30 Days: Catherine
Catherine Alexander McCoy is one of my 6th Great Grandmothers. If there is one name that defines the early years of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, it is that of the Alexander family. Of...
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30 Mothers in 30 Days: Isabella
Little did they know, when Richard Pace married Isabella Smythe at St. Dunstans Church, Stephney, Middlesex, England on October 5, 1608, that they would be the founding couple of an American...
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A Trip on the Mother Ship
So, I've had 7 men I'm related to take YDNA tests that follows the male line father to son. Some have offered a great deal of information, others have not.One bit of information they all provide is the...
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30 Mothers in 30 Days: Bridget - The Mother I just Met
Bridget Smith. I had never heard of her, but she's my ancestor.Gedmatch.com has started a new project called "Ancestor Projects". It's genealogical studies of a certian group of persons, families,...
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30 Mothers in 30 Days: Antje
Antje Wells Preslar was my 8th Great Grandmother, at least down one line. Just recently, I discovered that I may have a second line to her. The one I know is:Andreas (Andrew) and Antje (Anna) Preslar...
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30 Mothers in 30 Days: Elizabeth
These are the ingredients of the Genetic Pie that makes up me. This is from Gedmatch. Each company labels things a little differently, but they all pretty much come up the same. By and large, I'm...
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30 Mothers in 30 Days: Deliverance
The first thing that troubles me about Deliverance King Tuthill was the very scary "angel" that tops her tombstone in the "Old Burying Ground of the First Baptist Church a Orient Point, Southhold,...
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