by Toni | Jun 1, 2020 | Blog, Family History Research
“United States Census, 1880,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9YBK-SQJ?cc=1417683&wc=XW7Z-K68%3A1589414013%2C1589414117%2C1589394799%2C1589395245 : 24 December 2015), South Carolina >...
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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 | Feb 7, 2019 | Blog, Family History Research
Have you ever thought about how an old African American cemetery got started? It is usually hard to tell, but newspapers, libraries, and funeral homes are places you can start to find the history of a cemetery. I came across one such cemetery in Greenwood...
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by Toni | Jan 17, 2019 | Blog, Family History Research
After I had discovered that Henry Smith was the brother of Jane Smith Johnson McCoy from the letter of my grandfather, Emory Wallace Vance, Sr., grandson of Jane, I decided to look into the descendants of Henry and Mary Smith and the enslaver of Henry Smith, John...
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by Toni | Dec 3, 2018 | Blog, Family History Research
Of all my finds thus far, finding my grandfather, Emory Wallace Vance, Sr. among the Richland County, SC grantor deeds has been the greatest to date. The thought that I could find out what happened with him came into my mind in 1985. I had heard my...
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