Celebration Sunday~Genealogy Happy Dance!

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 around that you found the document, contacted a cousin who has the family Bible, made a DNA connection or found a whole 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 is a weekly series to enable everyone to tell about their Genealogy Happy Dance moment. This can be done by scrolling down and adding your story to the comments section. You may also put a link to a blog post.

My Happy Dance This Week:  
 Unexpectedly receiving photos of my paternal great grandfather had me in tears! I had been waiting a long time time get them from my father's cousin. Life kept getting in the way, and the photos were promised many years ago but not sent. Until my phone buzzed and several text messages came through with the pictures attached! My great grandfather Jubal Ransom Early outside of what may have been his home and one with his children, my grandmother's sisters. 
Out of the blue, I was doing that happy dance! I will be blogging about him soon! He was a character!

Jubal Ransom Early (1888-1964)

What had you dancing this week?                                                                                    

                

                                                        Share your discovery!

                                                                                   Let the dancing commence!

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Randy Seaver's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun~Timelines

This week Randy challenges us to Make an Ancestor's Timeline.

Here's mine made with Legacy Family Tree genealogy software for my maternal 5th great grandfather and Revolutionary War soldier, Phillip Roberts (1763-1854).

The options tab gives several choices in the way a timeline can look and what it contains. There is even a choice for using colors for individuals and events. A list of historical timelines can also be added.

Timelines are very useful in genealogy research. They are a visual representation of the events in an ancestor's life. This tool can help to see holes in your research and by adding what was happening historically, clues to record sets are found. From this short timeline of Phillip Roberts, I can see much more needs to be discovered about his life.

Do you use timelines in your genealogy research?

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Tombstone Tuesday-Revolutionary War Patriot

William Vaughn, my paternal 5th great grandfather was born in May of 1764 in North Hampton County North Carolina.

He served as a private in the Calvary from Sumter District, S.C. during the Revolutionary War.

 From "The South Carolina Pension Report of Sumter District Residents, 1835", William is recorded as aged 80 with an annual allowance of $83.33. The pension began on 24, January 1834 and he had received a total amount of  $249.99.

A Bounty Land Application was filled out by William Vaughn on 2 April 1855 in Sumter District at the age of 90. 

William Vaughn
1855 Bounty Land Grant Application
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It's not known at this time if the land was granted to William. He did on 23 September 1857 and is buried in the Dargan Cemetery in Sumter, South Carolina.

William Vaughn Headstone
Dargan Cemetery
Sumter, South Carolina 

Obituary

“Death of a Revolutionary Soldier” Yorkville Enquirer, (South Carolina), 1 Oct. 1857, p. 2, col. 7, digital images, Chronicling America (https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov: accessed 04 May 2015)

A wonderful description of the life of my 5th great grandfather. He was admired as a great patriot:

"It is said that his hatred for the tories was proverbial, and the the mention of them in his presence, even during the last years of this life, wold always draw from him some expression of this feelings toward them."

Do you have Revolutionary War soldiers in your family history?
We'd love to hear about them!
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