This Week On My Family History Calendar

November 12-November 18

Nov. 18~ 
  My paternal 3rd great grandfather, William A. Martin (1813-1887) died in Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina 130 years ago. He is buried in Bethesda Presbyterian Cemetery in Statesville.

William A. Martin

Headstone

Bethesda Presbyterian Church Cemetery

Statesville, Iredell, North Carolina

photo credit: Joy Steele. Used with permission

Who are you remembering this week?

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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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Looking forward to reading about your Happy Dance moment!

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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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