by Toni | Apr 29, 2020 | Blog, Family History Research
In looking for Rev. Simon Miller from the historic newspaper article with Richard Harvey Cain (1825-1887), I admit I had to start from scratch. When I wrote Richard Harvey Cain (1825-1887) Served in South Carolina Senate, I knew I would try to find out more on Rev....
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by Toni | Jul 17, 2019 | Beyond the Basics, Blog, Family History Research
Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National...
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by Toni | Jun 25, 2019 | Beyond the Basics, Blog, Family History Research
We have a hard time tracking family of ancestors because some left the place they were living in droves due to persecutions or the search for jobs to take care of their families. One such person was Lee Vance of Abbeville County, South Carolina. He appeared on the...
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by Toni | Jun 12, 2019 | Blog, Family History Research
. A. Chick or Clarence Anderson Chick, The Palmetto Leader, Columbia, South Carolina, 24 December 1938, page 3, column 3 In Documenting Your Ancestor in 1940, I first gave Clarence Anderson Chick’s death, WWI Draft Registration, and appearance of he and his wife,...
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by Toni | May 1, 2019 | Blog, Family History Research
After all these years, I finally was able to find three of my grandparent’s children’s birth announcements in “The Palmetto Leader.” The first one I found was on the first page of the paper. It is my mother’s birth announcement. I could not wait to tell her of...
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