You know the dance. You know you've done it. The one every researcher does after finding something new. The one where you want to jump up and down and shout to everyone that you found the document, contacted a cousin with the family Bible, made a DNA connection, or found a new branch to your tree. The one that is met with glazed stares and eye rolls.
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My Happy Dance Moment for this week:
Another successful week of SLIG is over, and I learned so much!
This year I took Metes and Bounds Land Platting with Jerry Smith, Sydney Cruice,
Kimberly Powell and Richard G. Sayre.
If you ever get a chance to take this course, I highly recommend it.
This was an amazing week, from learning how to plat by hand and on Deed Mapper, practicum time to practice skills, to using what we learned on our own projects.
I am exhausted from the intense week, but it was so worth it! Thanks to the instructors and the SLIG committee for another great @SLIGexperience!
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January 24~ Loretta McManus Daughrity (1894-1936), my maternal great-grandmother, died 87 years ago in Sumter, Sumter, South Carolina. Etta was 41 at the time of her death. She is buried in the Sumter City Cemetery in Sumter, South Carolina.
Loretta (McManus) Daughrity Photo Owned by Cheri Hudson Passey
My 5th great grandfather, Phillip Roberts, II (1763-1864), was born 260 years ago in Cumberland County, North Carolina.
Who are you remembering this week?
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You know the dance. You know you've done it. The one every researcher does after finding something new. The one where you want to jump up and down and shout to everyone that you found the document, contacted a cousin with the family Bible, made a DNA connection, or found a new branch to your tree. The one that is met with glazed stares and eye rolls.
Celebration Sunday is a place to share your discoveries.
This weekly series enables everyone to tell about their Genealogy Happy Dance moment.
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down and add your story to the comments section, or you may also put a link to a blog post telling about what had you dancing this week.
Sumter County, South Carolina Conveyance Records, (FamilySearch.org), William Doughty to Hester, Edward, Sarah, and Susan, Book D, 1812, pg. 26
My Happy Dance Moment for this week:
As a researcher in the south, I often run across records of enslavers buying, selling, or willing the enslaved as pieces of property. These are hard records to reconcile with.
This week as I was looking for information on my maternal Daughrity line from Sumter District/County, South Carolina, I was surprised to come across a manumission record.
William Daughty, Jr. gives "the mulatto wench Hetty, and her three mulatto children, named Edward, Sarah, and Susan their full and absolute freedom.....releasing them from a state of slavery and bondage.....making them fully and absolutely and free forever every sense conception and meaning of the word free."
At this time, I am not sure exactly where William fits into my Daughrity family. A grandfather to my William, perhaps? He may not be part of my line at all. But, he gives me hope. Hope that someone in my family line did was right regarding the holding of the enslaved.
A genuine happy dance of thankfulness for his huge act of humanity during a time and place when it was uncommon to do so.
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Melissa, Mary and I talk about the power of family stories as we discuss what was revealed through documents and DNA to the guest stars of Finding Your Roots Season 9 Episode 1: Edward Norton and Julia Roberts and Episode 2: Clair Daines and Jeff Daniels.
Watch as we discuss ways viewers can learn techniques for finding their own family stories by learning how they were found for the celebrities on these episodes.
The panel, Melissa Barker, and Laura Hedgecock, and I get together as we talk about RootsTech 2023!
Watch as we share our experiences with previous RootsTech events and talk about the exciting new way genealogy learning will be presented this year. Some of us will meet in person in Salt Lake City, and others will present online.
We also share three ways you can win a free 3-Day In-person pass!
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Then leave a comment on the link for the GenFreinds RootsTeck GenFreinds Video that I will place on each of these platforms. Tell me what the theme Uniting means to you and how attending RootsTeck live in 2023 would help you with your genealogy/family history goals.
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