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It’s been a while
It has certainly been a while since I updated this blog. Oh well. Things happen and life gets in the way of a lot of activities. I doubt I’ll make a lot of frequent updates anymore, but I will try … Continue reading
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Welcome to Dave’s blog sites. This site just moved to a new home!
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Restored Lee, Beale, Turberville, Corbin, Davis Family Tree
One of the things that has been most helpful in my genealogical investigations is the tremendous family tree that my grandfather and his uncle researched and created. The tree had to have been created between about 1900 and 1913, as … Continue reading
Sidney Wishart’s Wives
I have been trying for years to find out about the mother of Million Brown Wishart, my Great, Great Grandmother and wife of John Ballantine Murphy. There are several sources other than family lore that identify her as the daughter … Continue reading
Beale and Davis Family Papers, UNC Chapel Hill
I had some time to make a visit to the Wilson Library at Chapel Hill last week and was treated to some amazing things. The archive is fairly extensive, and contains many letters and papers of the the family and … Continue reading
Leap Year Update
I decided I could not let the opportunity to post something on a leap-day escape me, so here goes. I spent a week in New England again this month and had time to do some more Dadmun research. This time … Continue reading
Gloucester County Virginia Methodist Records
I have been delayed over a month posting anything about this. I went to the Virginia Beach Public Library and looked through their copy of the index to Gloucester County Methodist records so nicely collected and published by Michael F. … Continue reading
Getting back to work after Thanksgiving
Yes. It takes me a week or so. I have not done much more than scan a bunch of photographs and organize my genealogy file drawer. I finally put things into family folders there instead of in a couple of … Continue reading
On further review…
After comparing the names in the chancery order discussed in the post below with the Davis family tree, I now see that the John Davis mentioned as “next friend” in the plaintiff section is actually the brother of Williams Edwards … Continue reading
John Davis – found!
I had a day off from work and decided to take the time to go to the Library of Virginia and do some more research. I needed Gloucester County records, and the library has them on film. I started searching … Continue reading