Seeking info./connections re: Green Russell Smith b. 1844 GA, and his wife, Mollie E. (Brown) and family. They were in Mineola and Golden, Wood County, TX beginning about 1870. Green was a County Commissioner and lived in the Bellefonte Community. His daughters married into the Davenport, Wood, Russell, & Bullard families. This query was originally [...]
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MORE TIPS FROM READERS By Ancestry Weekly Discovery 29 July 2011 Editor: Juliana Smith While my job is to share my experience in family history with you through this newsletter, I’ve learned much from you over the years as well. So to continue this newsletter in the spirit of sharing experiences, here are a few [...]
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Internationally recognized genealogy expert, author, and lecturer, George G. Morgan will present a genealogy workshop free to the public at the Quitman Public Library during Old Settlers Reunion Week on Friday, August 5. The workshop, sponsored by the Quitman Public Library and the Northeast Texas Regional Library System and hosted by the Wood County Texas [...]
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The first notice of an upcoming super event for the society and Wood County this August is included in this email from the Quitman Public Library. More details will be made available as we can put together our event plan. We hope to make this available to our members, the general public, and members of [...]
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Hopefully, one or more of our members can help this English researcher who sent the following query. Any and all ideas would be appreciated. Hello I do not want to put anybody to any trouble but I was wondering if you can give me any idea how I can obtain information about Deaths in Mineola, [...]
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I’d like to correspond with anyone from you society who is searching the Hamrick Line or would help me in that area. Years ago I wrote to Joe L. Hamrick at an Winnsboro address. My last letters were returned. My mother’s maiden name was Hamrick (Dora Murl Hamrick Leverton). At the time Joe and I [...]
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By Juliana Smith 13 December 2010 19 December 2010 The Weekly Discovery from Ancestry.com Re-printed with Permission If the answers to your family history dilemmas can’t be found in the descriptive materials for the collection, as we discussed in the previous article, here are some problem-solving strategies that can help. 1.) Look at External Factors [...]
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Yet another free newsletter which arrives by email and to which you can subscribe at the my communication preferences link at Ancestry.com is the Weekly Discovery Newsletter. The following article is from the August 16, 2010 edition and is part of a larger article written by Juliana Smith titled RE-ENERGIZING YOUR RESEARCH. Charting It “Old [...]
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Judy “Newsome” SPEARS of Winnsboro left an information request regarding the WEEMS surname in Wood County. Acia WEEMS of Georgia. She would like his dates. His son is Andrew J. WEEMS, b. 12/27/1849, d. 5/23/1930. He married Alice THOMAS b. 1854 or 1855, d. 1887. Laura Pearl WEEMS m. Hiram Scaraborough NEWSOME, Judy’s grandfather. Andrew [...]
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