It's Saturday Night -
time for more Genealogy Fun!
Our mission from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing
is to:
1) Determine which event in your ancestral history that you would love to be a witness to via a Time Machine. Assume that you could observe the event, but not participate in it.
2) Tell us all about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook Status post.
1) Determine which event in your ancestral history that you would love to be a witness to via a Time Machine. Assume that you could observe the event, but not participate in it.
2) Tell us all about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook Status post.
Like Randy, I have many brick walls and I have written
before about one of my biggest I’d like to solve. You can see here,
along with more links to previous posts about my trials and tribulations.
I would love to discover the birth parents of my
3X-great-grandfather, Samuel Johnston, who was born about 1816 in South
Carolina. I am hoping that in the process, I would learn which county this
happened in, so I can hope to continue the line further back.
I have been stuck in Yalobusha County, Mississippi where
the family appeared in the 1850 census. Most of the children had been born
somewhere in Alabama. His wife, Elizabeth McCormack (1814-1891), was also born
in South Carolina, and my hope is she came from the same place as Samuel.
Burned county in Texas really thwarted my research, where
I might have had some clues.
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That sounds like a good time period and location for the use of a time machine!
ReplyDeleteI was thinking it so, too.
DeleteSouth Carolina is a tough nut to crack. My husband has a widow born in the mid 1700s in SC who migrated to Knox County, TN in the 1790s. The surname - Broadway - isn't terribly common, but in the few places I've found it in NC and SC, I haven't found any records to help crack the brick wall. Good luck with your search.
ReplyDeleteYeah, SC is a tough one. Actually, if I could find them in Alabama, that might help, too.
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