Update - she has died. Additional updates below. This is what I wrote before she died: For no other reason than meanness. I got to hear her voice and she was so sad about not having a way to communicate with all her family and friends. She had talked with and visited with her friends … Continue reading Loose Thoughts Series: The last time…
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Reminder: Always get at least two sources. The Social Security Application
The applications are easy to order and inexpensive (Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) request link below) as records go, and for me I had hoped for clues also to find anything on my grandfather's father. But the applications are a document that will have the precious signature of the applicant - priceless!
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Here’s Why We Test y – The Thomas Knight, Rockingham family comes into focus.
- A Herstory Guest - I hope my readers will help me welcome our guest blogger, one of my Knight cousins, Charlotte. Her trees and work can be found on ancestry.com and familysearch.org, all the usual places, but with a very special and not so usual story of her Knight ancestry. She has been a … Continue reading Here’s Why We Test y – The Thomas Knight, Rockingham family comes into focus.
Good Eats at 2 Soul Sisters
CLOSED In Southern Maryland we are accustomed to few restaurants with tasty even scrumptious, yummy even delicious, mouthwatering even delectable food. We starve no more. The sisters are here and they are cooking. The meats are succulent, the vegetables are so flavorful and the desserts - oh the desserts. Down in Lusby, at the post … Continue reading Good Eats at 2 Soul Sisters
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y-DNA. No, it does not have admixture, but it does have thousands of years of human ancestry.
y-DNA. What is it? Who has heard of it? All the excitement about admixture aka ethnicity in at-DNA testing and matching trees took some of the focus away from the original DNA-for-genealogy testing and my own favorite test: -- y-DNA. What is your y-DNA, if you are a man? (Only men carry y-DNA.) Is it … Continue reading y-DNA. No, it does not have admixture, but it does have thousands of years of human ancestry.
