Each family tree has a brick wall, and most of the time it is on one of the main paternal or maternal lines. For my family research that brick wall is Elijah Edens, born about 1810, probably in Virginia.
In the more than 20 years I have been researching Elijah relatively little is known about him, save for his place of residence in 1830, 1850, 1860, and 1880, as well as his spouse and children.
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“There’s no fool like an old fool.”
“I’ve tried being all the other varieties.”
“Well?”
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Greenville police have announced a break in the decades-old murder of an infant known as Julie Valentine.
Chief Ken Miller said Brook Graham, 53, was charged with homicide by neglect after 5 p.m. Wednesday.
Graham is being held without bond.
Recently NBC had an article on their website called, “Why DNA tourism may be the big travel trend of 2019.” They begin the article with, “These are your cousins. You will probably spend the night with them,” but this can be misleading when discussing DNA tourism.
The article discusses how the increased DNA testing at companies like Ancestry, 23 & Me, My Heritage, and Family Tree DNA may be leading the test takers to explore their DNA roots by visiting the countries of their ethnicity reports. They imply that by simply taking the DNA test you will get answers as to where exactly your family originated.
Isn’t it funny how one insignificant thing can lead to something clever and resourceful?
I received an email from Marc McDermott of the Genealogy Explained website regarding a link on my page to the Board for Certifications of Genealogists, Genealogical Proof Standards (GPS) that was broken. The BCG had redesigned their site a few months back, and for some reason it never occurred to me that my link would become broken from that redesign. I want to thank Marc for pointing it out to me, especially since my Google services missed it.
“[I]t will be beyond the skies when Jesse W. Steele, private, company G, Third Texas Infantry, kisses the lips of that ‘mother o’ mine,’ for Monday Morning at 11 o’clock he got his summons to appear before the Great General in the final court marshal.”[1]
The newspaper article from the 13 February 1917 Houston Post describes how Jesse Steele, traveling home on a ten day furlough from the army, tried to hop on an International and Great Northern freight train. In the stead he fell underneath the wheels and was killed.[2]
This raises the question, who was the “mother o’ mine” referenced in the article?