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30 Mothers in 30 Days: Delaney
Delaney Elizabeth Braswell Lowthorp is one of those ancestors whose existence is growing dim.Trace remnants of her extistence remain, but mother nature is taking over and attempting to erase those...
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30 Mothers in 30 days: Tabitha
Tabitha Ann Marks was my 3rd Great Grandmother, a little more recent that the last few I've endeavored to feature. However, that does not mean she lived recently. Her entire lifespan was within the...
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30 Mothers in 30 Days: Piety
My 5th Great Grandmother, Piety Lambert, appears only in one census record, the 1850.Name:Phida LambertGender:FemaleAge:76Birth Year:abt 1774Birthplace:North CarolinaHome in 1850:Furrs, Stanly, North...
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30 Mothers in 30 Days: Nellie
Old Church in Cowan, ManitobaNot all of the Mothers in my family tree are mine. Some belong instead, in the line of my children's heritage. Such is the case of Nellie Kendrat Mandiburr.Half of my...
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30 Mothers in 30 Days:Telitha
Telitha Matilda Delphia "Tilly"Â Herrin was my third great grandmother. She was a Stanly County girl. She was the daughter of Hezekiah Herrin and Amelia "Milly" Hatley. She was the fourth child and...
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30 Mothers in 30 Days: Obedience
I've got a number of "Virtue" names in my family tree, especially the further back I go. Virtue names were typically used for women, althought I've came acros men named "Devotion" or "Grief". This...
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30 Mothers in 30 Days: Leavy
I believe her name was meant to be Olivia. However, as a child born in the middle years of the the 19th century, Olivia, which trended in the Starnes family, had been corrupted to "Arleavis" and as a...
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30 Mothers in 30 Days: Anna Maria
It's 2020. Genealogy today is no longer just the hours spent in dusty basements of a small town courthouse or out plundering through abandoned cemeteries. That remains important, however, and I believe...
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30 Mothers In 30 Days: Margaret Mary
Margaret M. Buchanon, along with her mother Mary (Ryan or Keys) and grandmother, Catherine Black, represent the Scotch- Irish branch of my family tree. They were a unique group of their own, and...
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30 Mothers in 30 Days:Julina
When I was little, my mother and I lived with her parents for a number of years. As I had a working mother, a great deal of time was spent with my grandfather. My father was in the army, but they later...
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30 Mothers in 30 Days: The Future and the Past
Family Trees grow both ways: from the Root and from the Branches. As I chose this month to honor all of the women whose DNA I carry in my cells, I also want to honor the women who are passing MY DNA...
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30 Mothers in 30 Days: Isabella
Isabella Smythe Pace is one of my immigrant ancestors. As yet, I can't tell you exactly what generation of Grandmother she is to me. My best guess is 12th Great Grandmother. I found her through DNA....
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James Marks Grave
Recently my distant cousin and fellow Marks descendant, Cyndi, sent me the following page from a bulletin she had been fortunate to find. The bulletin was from a Marks family reunion and was shared...
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The Story of Drusilla Beasley
CLIPPED FROMThe North-CarolinianFayetteville, North Carolina08 Apr 1848, Sat  • Page 3I made the acquaintance of Drusilla Beasley while researching the family of William and Susanna Gurley Seigler....
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Mary Whitley
My first encounter with a mysterious woman named Mary Whitley was when I was studying the story and tragic beginnings in life of Drucilla Beasley. Drucilla Beasley had been born in the Olive Branch...
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It Started With Joseph Smith
Montgomery County, North Carolina is its own little study in topography. Located in the geographical dividing line between the Sandhills and the Piedmont, from east to west, the scenery and soil...
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The Murder of Milton Bunnel
When researching the Smith and Bunnel families of the East Montgomery and West Moore County, North Carolina line, I found out that like every family of that era, at some point, especially were my...
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Thoroughly Modern Minerva
I love the old poetic names that arrived in style in the later part of the 19th century. As the population grew, people became tired, and aware, of an ignoble reputition of certain names, that confused...
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The Results are In!
I took an autosomal dna test in 2013 through ancestry.com. I uploaded that data to gedmatch.com, My Heritage and Family Tree. I learned how to use DNA Painter. I've made many fascinating discoveries in...
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The Pumpkin Eater
Fannie Talbot was the daughter of John Nixon Talbot and his wife Mary Ann Bunnel Talbot. When she was a few months shy of her 18th birthday, she married John Milton Bunnel. Now John Bunnel was 37...
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