Carolina Girl Genealogy

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.

Who are you remembering this week?

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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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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.

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.

What's your Happy Dance Moment?

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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.