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Whether you loved or hated the uniquely delivered first season of Genealogy Roadshow, they’re back for another go of it on Jan 13th on PBS. They’ll be visiting the fascinating cities of New Orleans, St. Louis and Philadelphia this year and …
If you like staying up to date on history news, you’ll probably love the new app from New Historian. We checked it out today and found that they had some really fascinating topics, including several recent articles that would likely …
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At some point or other in their research, every family historian will likely discover the sad fate of the 1890 census. A critical time of population growth and change in America’s history, the 11th census of the United States should have …
The Library of Congress has an expansive collection of historical images available online. Many show the daily lives of our ancestors and reveal exciting glimpses into our collective past. Thanks to efforts by the US government to document America’s people and …
Love history shows? Amazon has a surprising selection of them free with with Prime. Amazon Prime is a subscription service that bundles together a free monthly book for your kindle, unlimited streaming of selected videos and free two-day shipping on …
Thank you to Susan D. Harris for this guest post. Image at left: “My grandmother (Martha) as a little girl with her mother, Nola Carson Gordon and brother Lewis.” When I was young, an old Victrola sat in the corner of our …
A Favorite Song Foretells the Discovery of a Long Forgotten Homeland .
Many of our readers have expressed interest in more community interaction on Family History Daily, so we thought we’d give you a chance to share some of your family stories! Not long after we launched our Facebook page we asked …
Growing up I had always heard about Ethel Murphy, mother to my great grandmother Frances May Catherine Murphy Fazenbaker Knepp. When I started doing genealogy about twenty five years ago I asked my mother Virginia Catherine Miller Johnson about her family. She told me that her grandmother’s mother disappeared and that family “lore” had it that (and I am always skeptical about family lore) that she was killed in some sort of accident around November of 1908 or 1909. I thought, OK, I can start looking to see what I could possibly find. Of course, this was all before the internet.
My mother’s maiden name is Watkins. One of her second-great-grandfathers is Absalom Craddock Watkins, who first shows up on public record in the 1820 Census of Bond Co., IL. With him is his wife Mary “Polly” Little, and enumerated just before him are his father-in-law James Little, Sr. and brother-in-law James Little, Jr. In the 1850 Census, A.C. and Polly are identified as being born in KY, which kept me running in circles for many years following many Littles and Watkins without a connection.