I decided to use my 2021 Week 10’s theme “Name’s the Same” for the Week 24’s “Popular Name” theme. The name selected is “Robert Barbee,” my 2nd great-grandfather, who married Martha Ella Quinn, 1877 in Madison County, Alabama. Robert Barbee (1834-1928) had a son, Samuel, by his first wife, Amanda Continue Reading
Diane Faulk
2022 – #52 Ancestors Challenge – Week 23 – Mistakes
This week’s theme is Mistakes. We all make them — and that includes us and our ancestors. Sometimes mistakes are out of our control, and sometimes, mistakes are a blessing. Here are some of the things that happen to me: [1] The students lined up alphabetically during my high school Continue Reading
2022 – #52 Ancestors Challenge – Week 22 – Conflict
My maternal grandfather always claimed that his father’s surname was Lanier. He even gave his children the middle name Lanier. Ever since I started Genealogy, I have been researching James Lanier, first husband of my great grandmother Rosa Barbee. In May 1901, his mother, Rosa, married James Lanier in Morgan Continue Reading
2022 – #52 Ancestors Challenge – Week 21 – Yearbook
I want to share my experience in researching Yearbooks. First, I was looking for a picture of my husband in high school. So I looked at U.S. School Yearbooks, 1900 – 1999, for Booker T. Washington High School. I found a picture, but it wasn’t him. So I went to Continue Reading
2022 – #52 Ancestors Challenge – Week 20 – Textile
This week’s theme is “Textile.” Clothing, quilts, weaving — there are so many ways to talk about textiles in our family history! Be creative with this week’s theme! My father was living with his mother and grandmother in 1930. His grandmother Lillie was a dressmaker. She was also listed in Continue Reading
2022 – #52 Ancestors Challenge – Week 19 – FOOD & DRINK
My grand uncle, Frank Miller, owned and operated the Chick-n-Roast Restaurant and Tavern at 126th and Kinsman Roads in Cleveland, Ohio, from abt. 1956 until 1976. It was a popular place in Cleveland where celebrities and civic leaders liked to hang out.The U.S. City Directories (1822 – 1995), on Ancestry.com, Continue Reading
2022 – #52 Ancestors Challenge – Week 18 – SOCIAL
Week 18 (May 3-9): Social Maybe you have a story or photo of an ancestor at an ice cream social. Maybe your ancestor was part of a society, like the Masons or Odd Fellows. Maybe you’ve made a connection with a cousin or made a great discovery thanks to social Continue Reading
2022 – #52 Ancestors Challenge – Week 17 – DOCUMENT
“Document” can be a noun or a verb and, as genealogists, we should be using it as both! Perhaps this week you share a neat document you’ve found or write about your efforts to document an ancestor.One of my favorite sources is the pension file. I have a copy of Continue Reading
2022 – #52 Ancestors Challenge – Week 16 – Negative
When I think of “negative” genealogy, I think of the 1992 movie “A Few Good Men” with Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, and Demi Moore. Remember when Jack said, “You can’t handle the truth?” I can’t handle it when someone in my family has done something terrible (or negative) to someone Continue Reading
2022 – #52 Ancestors Challenge – Week 15 – How do you spell that?
William A Faulk was born on 1 March 1895 in Summerfield, Claiborne County, Louisiana. He first appeared in the 1900 U.S. Federal Census on 13 June, living in Police Jury Ward 1, Claiborne, Louisiana. Also living in the household were his father, Shep Folk [Faulk], 24, mother, Mary, 23, sister Adie, Continue Reading