Sunday, February 19, 2023

This Week on My Family History Calendar: A Birth and a Death in the Dargan Family

 




February 20~
My Paternal 3rd great-grandmother, Mary Alice (Dargan) Bradford (1825-1875), died 148 years ago in Sumter County, SC.


February 24~

    Mary (Strother) Dargan (1782-1822), my paternal 5th Great Grandmother, was born 251 years ago. Her parents are said to be William Strother (1730-after 1779) and Catherine (Dargan) Strother (1735-?). She lived in Sumter District, South Carolina.



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Celebration Sunday -Genealogy Happy Dance! A TV Interview Helps Spread the Message!





  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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My Happy Dance Moment for this week: 

This week, Sharon Gillins and I were interviewed for a TV news story on our presentation, Descendants of the Enslaved and Enslavers Working Together to Discover Family. We were thrilled to be able to share our mission to help descendants overcome barriers and reach out to each other. Won't you take a minute and click on the photo above to watch the video? We hope it encourages more communication and understanding as we research and find the names of the enslaved and, once again, say their names.



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Wednesday, February 15, 2023

GenFriends Genealogy Chat Show-Finding Your Roots Season 9 Episodes 5 & 6- Adding Pieces to the Family Puzzle




The panel, Melissa Barker, Dan Earl, Laura Hedgecock,  Mary Kircher Roddy, and I, get together to talk about how the paper trail and DNA helped to add pieces to family puzzles for the four celebrities featured in these two episodes.

Watch as we share what lessons can be learned about researching your family and the importance of understanding social history can play in the lives of our ancestors. 





What documents and DNA results have added to your knowledge of your family tree? We'd love to hear from you!

Links in this episode:

Finding Your Roots


 Contact the Panelists:

Melissa Barker-A Genealogist in the Archives

Dan Earl-Family History Guy

Laura Hedgecock-Treasure Chest of Memories

Mary Kircher Roddy-MKR Genealogy

Cheri Hudson Passey-Carolina Girl Genealogy



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Sunday, February 12, 2023

This Week on My Family History Calendar-A Mother and a Son

 




Headstone of Benjamin Allen Hudson
Sumter City Cemetery
©CheriHdusonPassey


Feb. 14~
 My paternal grandfather, Benjamin Allen Hudson (1918-1976) died 47 years ago in Lake City, Florence, South Carolina. He was 57 years old when he suffered a heart attack. 


Louvinia Blanche (Thames) Hudson
(1866-1918)


  February 17~
   Louvinia Blanche (Thames) Hudson (1886-1918), my paternal great-grandmother would be celebrating her 137th birthday on this day. Blanche was born in Clarendon County, South Carolina to Benjamin Thomas Thames (1854-1930) and Margaret Francis (Gibson) Thames (1854-1929).





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Celebration Sunday-Genealogy Happy Dance! Webinar Success!





  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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My Happy Dance Moment for this week: 

This week I presented a Webinar with my friend Sharon Gillens. We have given this talk before and hoped it would be received as well as it has been in the past. It was, and we have already received messages from people who want to know more about working together and others sharing their stories of doing so. Our goal is to keep this conversation going and help connect families together. Seeing the response has us doing the happy dance!



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Wednesday, February 8, 2023

GenFriends Genealogy Chat Show-Using ad Creating Oral Histories for Your Family Tree

 


The panel Melissa Barker, Dan Earl, Laura Hedgecock, Shelley Murphy, and I discuss oral histories' importance in your genealogy research. From what it is to where to find it, we share many examples and links to help you discover more about the social and historical history surrounding your ancestors. Watch as Dan explains how he put together an oral history project for a group of high school students and how it affected those asking the questions and the person being interviewed.





Have you used an oral history project to help you learn about your ancestors? Have you created an oral history to pass on to the next generation? We'd love to hear from you!


Remember to look at local, state, and national repositories!

Libraries

Museums

Historical Societies

Genealogy Societies


Links in this episode:

FamilySearch Wiki-Oral Histories

Holocaust Museum

Korean War Oral History Project

Veteran's Oral History Project

Slave Narratives



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Sunday, February 5, 2023

Thia Week on My Family History Calendar- A 294th Birthday!



February 9 ~


 Catherine Ann (Singleton) Dargan (1729-1808), my paternal 6th great grandmother, was born in Virginia 294 years ago. Her parents were Robert Singleton and Ann. Catherine may have been called by her middle name Ann. She was the wife of  Capt. John Dargan (1726-1766) and lived in Sumter County, South Carolina.



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Celebration Sunday-Genealogy Happy Dance! Finding Land Records



 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.


Map of Chambersburg Township
Iredell County, NC
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My Happy Dance Moment for this week: 

Taking what I learned at SLIG last week, I looked for more information on my Early families land in Iredell County, NC. Remembering that there was mention of Dower Lands in an 1899 probate package, I went back to look at it again.

It made so much more sense coupled with the land record I discovered.

Now, I can plat the land given to my great great grandmother after the death of her husband that contained "the home dwelling and out buildings".

A reminder that it's always good to go back and look at records you  already have. 

Now to figure out what happened to that property after she moved in with her son when she was too old to live by herself. 





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Wednesday, February 1, 2023

GenFriends Genealogy Chat Show:Finding Your Roots Season 9-Episodes 3 & 4-Changing the Narrative

 


 Melissa Barker, Laura Hedgecock, Shelley Murphy, and I  get together to talk about Finding Your Roots Season 9, episodes 3  with Carole Burnette and Neicy Nash & 4 with Cyndi Lauper, Jamie Chang, and Danny Trejo. 

Watch as we discuss how DNA and the paper trail can change our family narratives.




Did you watch these episodes:

We would love to hear your thoughts!


Links in this episode:

Finding Your Roots


 Contact the Panelists:

Melissa Barker-A Genealogist in the Archives

Shelley Murphy-Family Tree Girl

Cheri Hudson Passey-Carolina Girl Genealogy



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