by Toni | May 13, 2020 | Blog, Family History Research
Greenwood County Courthouse. SC, Robin R. Foster, Feb. 2014 I spent the first eight years of my move to South Carolina in Columbia researching in the archives, libraries, and getting to know cousins there. I have worked my way back to the 1800’s in my...
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by Toni | Nov 19, 2019 | Beyond the Basics, Blog, Family History Research
One More Days Journey: The Story of a Family and a People I remember finding out One More Days Journey: The Story of a Family and a People, by Dr. Allen B. Ballard existed from a family reunion while I was living in Joliet, Illinois. I visited the library to discover...
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by Toni | Oct 31, 2019 | Beyond the Basics, Blog, Family History Research
Eric Foner, Freedom’s Lawmakers (Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1996) I ordered this book to document my great great grandfather, Beverly Vance (1832-1899) years ago. The author of the book states that he included black officeholders during...
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by Toni | Oct 30, 2019 | Blog, Family History Research
“United States Census, 1870,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6WS9-C83?cc=1438024&wc=92KC-PT1%3A518655201%2C519483101%2C518737801 : 14 June 2019), South Carolina > Abbeville > Greenwood...
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by Toni | Aug 21, 2019 | Blog, Family History Research
We have been studying the whereabouts of the enslaver, James Kincaid Vance (1818-1897) in Abbeville County, South Carolina. We have followed him and his family from the 1850 and 1860. We found his son, James Wistar Vance (1845-1887), living next to Beverly Vance...
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