Posted on 28 February 2009 by generationsgoneby
John Gambill, son of Bradley Gambill and Susanna Unknown, was born circa 1771.1,2,3,4
John Gambill married Sarah Kimbro, daughter of William Kimbrough and Elizabeth Gooch, on 1 November 1798 in Davidson County, TN.4,2
Article I, section 2, of the U.S. Constitution requires that a decennial population census, a nationwide enumeration or count of the population, [...]
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Posted on 22 February 2009 by generationsgoneby
Productive: Had a problem understanding how a life estate worked. Sent an email to Advanced-Research-L@rootsweb.com and within 24 hours had my answer and a lot of good future research advice from people who know what they are doing.
Unproductive: Spent 4 hours reading the ABC Bachelor blog. It was like playing slots in [...]
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Posted on 11 January 2009 by generationsgoneby
Okay it’s about 24 degrees outside, so none of us want to be trampling through cemeteries today, but I have been working on my blog all afternoon and have moved several cemeteries to the blog today. And have done a little advertising around the blogosphere.
Check me out at http://rutherfordcemetery.wordpress.com/
So today it’s not [...]
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Posted on 10 January 2009 by generationsgoneby
It’s been said that if you can’t find an ancestor, hop on the collateral train.
I have looked for the parentage of George L. Gee for 20 years. Nothing, Nada, more brick walls than you can count. He currently has 14 parents in TMG that are marked Father-Not (This person is NOT his [...]
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Posted on 27 September 2008 by generationsgoneby
I have been trying to get a few new cemetery pages online tonight, but have also been fixing some issues that other pages on my website have as well.
For instance:
When you load a page, the name of the cemetery should show on the tab, but many of them either don’t show, or are incorrect. Working [...]
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Posted on 18 September 2008 by generationsgoneby
before the trip…
I get emails all the time asking for advice before heading to the archives or courthouse for a research trip. So here are some of my suggestions for what to do if you are headed to TN to research. The suggestions will work for any state, that’s just where I head.
Call [...]
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Posted on 12 September 2008 by generationsgoneby
Finished this cemetery today. Thanks to Susie Polman for sending me the images.
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Posted on 11 September 2008 by generationsgoneby
Tonight I have found a lot more marriage records and brought my source total to 2950. Just 50 shy of my goal of 3000. With all the new stuff for genealogist coming online each day, it may be hard to believe I still prefer to sit at my desk, cranking a microfilm machine. [...]
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Posted on 9 September 2008 by generationsgoneby
I didn’t do much genealogy pre computers. I grew up in the computer age, and so it was natural when I started doing genealogy to get a computer. My first computer just use EMACS and a simple word processing program to allow me to type in the family tree. When I found someone or [...]
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