James Wharton/Horton from Caroline Co., VA to Davidson Co., TN

James Wharton may have been the son of Benjamin Wharton of Caroline Co., VA, and was born circa 1800 in NC.[i],[ii]James Wharton married Elizabeth Sirls, daughter of Vincent Sirls, on 15 Jan 1825 in Caroline County, VA. Surety: John Sirls.[iii]James and Elizabeth became the parents of John Green "Jack" Wharton between 1825 and 1830 in…

To Go Digital or Not to Go Digital, That is the Question

Posted in response to a post on a FB about not trusting electronic media and not going digital with genealogy papers.  Here is my response!Anyone who uses a computer without a back up, is asking for trouble.My house could burn down. I could get hit by a tornado (again). Anything could happen to paper as…

Post Research Trip-What to do next

For those who don’t Genealogy Research Travel the way we do, let me describe a typical research day. Our last trip was eleven days.  We drove about 6 hours the first day, checked into a hotel and started visiting cemeteries, historical societies and archives. We tend to move hotels about every other day.  This time…

The Genealogy Research Trip

Hubby and I finally have #1 and #2 out of the house and #3 is finishing her senior year of college, so we are empty nesters and genealogists, so that means we finally have the time to travel and so we try several times a year to take a Genealogy Research Trip. It might be…

Getting the Next Generation Interested….

Like most Genealogists, my children really aren’t interested in sitting in front of the computer chasing down every last deed of someone long dead.  They aren’t interested in spending hours in archives and cemeteries looking for that long lost connection to a 6th great grandfather.  At least they aren’t yet…. So how does a genealogist…

Evernote- Genealogy- Organization-Secondary Monitor

Land Law of Tennessee-Proctor, Jonathon

Today I was transcribing a 1830 deed for Jonathon A. Proctor where it states “Agreeable to the 21st section of an act of the assembly passed at Knoxville in 1806 commonly called the land Law”….Wait… What?I had never heard of this land law, yet here my ancestor has a deed survey that states agreeable to…

Trials and Tribulations-Stephen Bennett (part 2 of 3)

Death does weird things to a family.  Grief is an all encompassing emotion, but it never looks the same on any two given moments or in any two given people.  I try to Walk In Their Shoes when dealing with my ancestors and this time unfortunately that is fairly easy. My precious Father-in-Law passed away…

Grave Robbing in TN-Stephen Bennett (part 1 of 3)

I have been enthralled with my ancestor Stephen Bennett since I first got started in Genealogy.  I can still remember the day like it was yesterday. I drove to MTSU to do some research on my family. Not sure what made me decide to start doing Genealogy that day, but I was home visiting and…

Genealogist at work-Where Do I Go from Here?

In Genealogy we start with what we know and we work to what we don’t know. That is far easier said than done. Mainly because the documents we need may not be readily available to work backwards in a straight line. But I do know (from previous research) that Manerva Beasley Haynes Turner is my…