THIS LITTLE TWIGGIE... I've recently, at my grandson's request, started working on his family tree. I haven't worked on this branch since the mid-1980s, before even Steve Jobs knew what was going to happen with computers. Yeah, he wanted our phones to take photographs, but who would have thought thousands of courthouse records would end up on the interent? Who even dreamed of something remotely close to a thing like the internet? Or find-a-grave.com...every grave stone in the United States on the internet with a picture? Seriously? It is even branching out to other countries. Absolutely astounding! And FREE :-) There have been three books written about my grandson's paternal line, the first written in the late 1800s. I use previously written books as my jumping off point to lead me to primary sources. Much later than the Civil War, and I start getting foggy -- it's difficult to read the handwriting, and Colonial America is way out of my comfort zone -- British...
Little-known or new information about some of our most interesting ancestors. Be sure to click the three bars on the right to see the list of archived blogs. Also - BLOGS ARE COPYRIGHTED. Please contact me for permission because I'm doing some tracking studies. I will almost always grant permission :-)