Everyone has them. Family legends in genealogy abound and often become more embellished with each generation. Many times, after diligent research you may find the family story is false. Here are some common family stories that are usually false. My gr-gr-grandmother was burned at the stake as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. Witches were never […]
During 1937, the Federal Resettlement agency (a part of Roosevelt’s New Deal program) purchased the old Pettway plantation and two adjacent farms in the poverty stricken community of Gee’s Bend. The following year, a nurse began working in the community, and construction began for a school, store, blacksmith shop, and cooperative cotton gin. By 1939 […]
WE ARE HAVING A HUGE EBOOK SALE OVER THE COMING WEEKS! Each of our 100 Ebooks will be on sale for 99 cents at least one time during the sale and will gradually increase in price over seven days until it returns to the list price. Today, August 4, 2020, ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES Volume IV […]
(Transcribed from December 27, 1923, The Birmingham News, Birmingham, Alabama) FAMILY REUNION AT ANNISTON ENJOYED ANNISTON, Ala., Dec. 27 – Special – Mr. and Mrs. Joe C. Hollingsworth of this city, celebrated Christmas with a family reunion at which seven sons, two daughters and twenty grand-children were present. Mr. and Mrs. Hollingsworth were married over […]
In Lydford Churchyard, near Dartmoor, England: Here lies, in horizontal position, the outside Case of George Routle1gh, Watchmaker; Integrity was the Mainspring, and prudence the Regulator, of all the actions of his life. Humane, generous, and liberal, his Hand never stopped, till he had relieved distress. So nicely regulated were all his Motions, that he never […]
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