During last month’s research trip to North Carolina, I was hoping a search through letters written by Penelope Johnston Dawson of Eden House would result in proof of a connection between her and my 5th great-grandmother, Margaret Dawson Castellaw. In
Long Letter from John Hill Jacocks
This 8-page letter from John Hill Jacocks includes his thoughts on such topics as his pride in his heritage, early history of Haywood County, Tenn., memories of visits during his childhood by distant relatives from Bertie County, N.C. and more.
Trouble Comes Not Single-handed
This is my first blog post to include one of the many letters found during a recent genealogy road trip to Chapel Hill, N.C. to the University of North Carolina Southern Historical Collection. This letter was in the “Jonathan Jacocks
50th Birthday Genealogy Road Trip
My 50th birthday last week was a great excuse to check out a few places I’ve read about for several years but never actually visited. I gathered content that I’ll be posting in my blog for months to come but
Headed to Chapel Hill Looking for a Dawson from Eden House on the Chowan River
Click to Enlarge Source: An Architectural Monograph on Houses of the Southern Colonies I’m trying to find more proof that my Castellaw family line can be traced back to Gabriel Johnston, the Royal Governor of North Carolina and it looks
Connecting the Bibles of Leonard D. Cobb and Will Williams
Click to Enlarge William Lafayette Williams, born Feb 13, 1858Eva Iris Williams, born July 29, 1896 Old Bibles that include genealogy information seem a little to me like a time machine that allows me to have a written connection to
Bertie County, N.C. to Haywood County, Tenn. Migration
Click to Enlarge Mules and Wagons, Mule Day 2011, Columbia, Tenn. As I continue to climb my family tree, one question continues to come up. Why did so many of my Bertie County, N.C. ancestors load up their wagons in
Death and the Civil War at the Library of Congress
Click to Enlarge Ric Burns and Drew Gilpin Faust on stage at the Library of Congress One of my favorite parts of working in Washington, D.C. is having access to so much history-oriented content. From events to panel discussions to
Sister C.A. Williams is Gone
That the was the first sentence of my third great-grandmother’s obituary written by John Charles Warren Cobb and W.T. Morris. They began with the ending. So here is a little about the beginning and some of the in-between. Catherion Arthur
How Harriett Ann Williams Became an Outlaw
Click to Enlarge Will Williams, Lloyd “Bob” Williams and Bob Williams While I’ve been able to track many of my ancestral lines back 10 or more generations, I have “hit a brick wall,” as they say in genealogy, on the