Dating the marriage
Tying the knot, Alabama style Reader Adam Jenkins ran into a snag in trying to figure out his family’s history. Part of the story was the common tale of divorce and remarriage. Adam reported that his great grandmother Lucy divorced his great grandfather Homer on...The first constable
First among equals So The Legal Genealogist was sitting there poking around in old records one more time and came across a reference in a Vermont town record to a title for an official that was a new one. The record is in the minutes of the town of Windham, Windham...By a vote of 37-1
The dissenting vote It was the court that wasn’t, not really, helping establish the town that wasn’t, not really. And somebody had the audacity to vote no. You just have to love Texas. The records are in a minute book tucked away in a set of records called...Veterans Day 2013
Honoring those who served In the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, the guns fell silent. On the battlefields of Europe, where war had raged for more than four years, the survivors breathed a sigh of relief. It was over. The War to End...Oblivious to oblivion
Ignoring the exception It was the spring of 1783. And America was, at long last, at peace. And, the Legislature of North Carolina declared: it is the policy of all wise states on the termination of civil wars, to grant an act of pardon and oblivion for past offenses,...Fishing through land records
Measuring land It seems such an odd word to find in a document involving land. But there it was, in the mortgage of “the whole of three several Farms or Plantations in the Township of Duanesborough” in what was then Albany County, New York, given by William Perkins to...The apprentices
Apprenticing freed children Beverly McGowan Norman has been telling the story of “Augustus Walter Wheat- the One-eyed Merchant of Marthasville, Georgia,” on her blog Roots, Branches, and a Few Nuts. She’s come across a lot of interesting information, in many...The alien rebel and his land
The Confederate German and federal land? Reader Susan Graben thought she had things figured out about her husband’s 3rd great grandfather, a German immigrant named Louis Graben. On the 1900 census of Lineville, Clay County, Alabama, Louis Graben was shown as age...Some redeeming value
Getting the land back In October 1922, the owner of two town lots in Billings, Montana, watched them go under the gavel at a sheriff’s sale. Lots 7 and 8 in block 26, Garlow’s subdivision in Foster’s Addition to the City of Billings, were sold to...Subscribe by Email
