What do I do next? Ideas for getting un-stuck in my family history journey [Outline for the February program at the WCGSTX Genealogical Society meeting.] The meeting was to help members examine how to get started again or on another part of the personal research journey by examining (1) their progress in research (2) in [...]
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PROVO, UTAH (August 17, 2011)- Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family history resource, today announced that both the images and indexes to the 1940 U.S. Federal Census will be made free to search, browse, and explore in the United States when this important collection commences streaming onto the website in mid-April 2012. When complete, more [...]
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We seem to be getting a higher place in search engines for Wood County, Texas genealogy. That means we are seeing more and more queries from people who live too far away to drive or fly to Wood County to research. This also means those who have subscribed to our website auto email feature are [...]
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FamilySearch has posted images of Texas tax rolls on its site at http://familysearch.org. These are free to search, save, or print and include Wood County tax rolls from 1850 to 1894 at this page: https://familysearch.org/search/image/show#uri=https%3A//api.familysearch.org/records/waypoint/10990465.The rolls are not indexed yet, but you can browse through them year-by-year and page-by-page. The good news is that when [...]
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Ancestries in Quitman City, Texas United States Or American: 23.4% Other Groups: 20.8% Irish: 15.0% English: 13.7% German: 8.7% French (except Basque): 3.4% Scottish: 2.5% Scotch-irish: 2.3% Italian: 2.1% Dutch: 2.0% Source: http://www.citymelt.com/city/Texas/Quitman+City-TX.html Submitted by: Delene H. Allen, Director, Quitman Public Library
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From Member Vi Shirey through an email to member Mark Reid: John T. Potter had four children: Della Potter Tolbert; Alice Donie Ragsdale; Eliza Jane Jarred; and William Albert Potter; all of whom lived in Wood County.
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We have received the following email from member Violet Shirey: John T. Potter was in the Civil War and is buried at Shady Grove, Winnsboro. His tombstone does not show he was in the war. Is there any way we can get a medalion or whatever it is they put on tombstones? Will appreciate your [...]
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Member Barbara Nichols shared the following response to the request for information about Hamrick: Social Security Death Index Name: Joe Hamrick SSN: 458-42-4858 Last Residence: 75494 Winnsboro, Wood, Texas, United States of America Born: 9 May 1913 Died: Dec 1987 State (Year) SSN issued: Texas (Before 1951) —————– U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, [...]
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No public official in Schleicher county is better liked or more highly respected than William C. Benton, the county and district clerk of Schleicher county, Texas, Mr. Benton is widely experienced in the kind of work upon which he is at present engaged and his service in this position has been highly satisfactory to the [...]
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From the free Google Books Search: Biennial report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas (Google eBook) Texas, Secretary of State, 1900, Page 256 Link to original image in Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=9L1KAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA256&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U17WKrvUVXdm0g6aSr5EvgkUQYCww&ci=155%2C203%2C815%2C639&edge=0
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