Photo/Jenny West Click to Enlarge Yesterday, I uploaded lots of great photos I received from Jenny West. Also included with the photos was an old letter that Lewis Fowler, my second great-grandfather, wrote to his son, Oliver Fowler, on Christmas

One of my favorite parts of genealogy research is the process of gathering, identifying and archiving family photos of my ancestors. I am fortunate to have hundreds of photos of my grandparents, multiple photos of most of my great-grandparents, a photo

In addition to finding the Jacocks Family Cemetery, when I was in Haywood County a few weeks ago, my father, youngest daughter and I stopped by the Forrest Cemetery for a short visit. In researching the Forrest family, I saw numerous references

Video of the Jacocks Family Cemetery Since I transcribed and uploaded this letter (and then this letter) from John Hill Jacocks that I found on my 50th Birthday Genealogy Road Trip, I’ve been looking for the Haywood County, Tenn. cemetery

Click to Enlarge Billy Tripp’s Mindfield My blog posts are usually about genealogy but during last weekend’s trip to Haywood County, I had a few extra minutes to grab some photos of a very unusual folk art display right in the

Click to Enlarge To me, the most fun part of genealogy research is not the names, dates and locations of my ancestors, but those moments when you actually find details about the lives they lived. I love it when I

I’ve spent the last few months trying to uncover as much as I could about my Forrest family line and finally get the “Forrest” page of my website uploaded. One ancestor from that line who really captured my imagination is

I’ve been working on the Forrest line of my ancestry (the Forrest page of Haywood County Line will be up soon) and it’s brought to light a very difficult question to answer. Who were the parents of three different Sherrod

Click to Enlarge Explorer, Richard Halliburton As further evidence that everyone in Haywood County, Tenn. is related in one way or another, I just stumbled across the fact that the famous explorer Richard Halliburton, who was from Haywood County, does

I like reading anything that sheds a little more light on the farming culture of my Haywood County, Tenn. ancestors, so high on my summer reading list was “Cotton Tenants: Three Families” by the late James Agee. Produced in a