I know I would have a problem with this one. I am not the curious type. I am more like whatever comes my way than the direction I would go. I guess I wouldn’t say I like the pressure. Recently, I received a DNA match back to my 2nd great-grandmother Continue Reading
2022 – 52 ANCESTORS CHALLENGE – WEEK 03 – Favorite Photo
My favorite photo is a picture of the Miller Family, taken about 1941 in Cleveland, Ohio. The lady in the white blouse is my paternal grandmother, Anna Miller (1908-1946). Unfortunately, I never met her because she died the week before I was born. The chart above lists the family members Continue Reading
2022 – 52 ANCESTORS CHALLENGE – WEEK 02 – Favorite Find
For years I had looked for the death record for my great-great-grandmother Martha Ella Barbee. Ella was born about 1854 in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and married Robert Barbee on May 24, 1877, at Huntsville, Alabama. Ella came into the marriage with two children: George ( 1874) and Joe (1875). She Continue Reading
2022 – 52 ANCESTORS CHALLENGE – WEEK 01 – FOUNDATIONS
For me, the bedrock of our family was my maternal grandmother, Cozelle Sloss Taylor. She raised me as an infant. Her burial was on the day of my eighteenth birthday. She only had one job away from the house, and that was during the ’40s to support the war effort. Continue Reading