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 | 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 | Sep 9, 2019 | Blog, Family History Research
FindAGrave.com added by Grave Recorder on 27 November 2016 I am always looking for my family, but I often see other people’s ancestors that amaze me as much as mine. They used to live in the same communities at one time. They are buried in the same places my ancestors...
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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 | Aug 6, 2018 | Family History Research, Let's Talk Records
After you find an obituary about an ancestor, what else are historic newspapers good for? Newspapers can tell you a great deal about what went on in your ancestor’s time period. African American newspapers bring to light burials, education, masonic lodges, ministers,...
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