tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56219566864148899792024-03-12T20:11:30.152-04:00My Tapley Tree...and its BranchesIncluding the surnames Tapley, Drake, Page, Harrell, Odom, Claxton, Bush, Swain, and Schwalls from the U.S. Southeast; and Ranney, Hubbard, Hesser, Carter, Schoonover, and Ozmun/Ozman/Osman from the U.S. Northeast and MidwestLizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15061165008186408924noreply@blogger.comBlogger630125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621956686414889979.post-34736705046891680952022-11-26T22:53:00.001-05:002022-11-26T22:56:41.400-05:00Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - My Thanksgiving Day<p> <i style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">From Randy (<b>a </b></span><b>cousin discovery!!</b><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">) over at </span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5621956686414889979/513848308727226924#"><span>Genea-Musings</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">:</span></i></span></p><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">it's </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"><b><span>Saturday Night</span></b></span><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;"><span> </span><span>- </span></span></span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">time for more </span><span style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;"><b><span><span style="font-size: large;">Genealogy Fun!!!</span></span></b></span></span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5621956686414889979/513848308727226924#" style="color: #6699cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUDAWGYivkDsxHOlHDOq99Y1nimRUKQrQqfJgZTnp5Tc_-swGSm0JNjmwaoOul1L5YT7r2_xgl_edi6gy0xDNC65ZeZQraDsFP1jNxzz3zQXeXe6xVF06LMfAsLm-FGjnMLWt0JR59uNw/s400/Tweety+Bird+Yippee.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;"></span></span></div></div><div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;">Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:</span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span><div style="margin: 0px;"><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">A) </span></b></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b> </b></span></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">We all need to document some of the special moments in our lives so
we can recall them, or our descendants can learn more about us. Today’s
question is “What was your Thanksgiving Day like this year?”</span></b></span></p><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15.84px;"><div><b><span>B) </span><span style="font-size: 15.84px;">Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook post.</span></b></div></span><span style="background-color: white;"><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><span style="color: red;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><b>Here's mine:</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><b><span style="color: #783f04;">Thanksgiving 2002 was very quiet and peaceful. Just the way I like my days. I had spent the entire week excited that I only had to work three days and would be off four. There is always something that needs to be done around the house that I never seem to have time for during the week. I was looking forward to getting a few done over the holiday weekend. </span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><b><span style="color: #783f04;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><span style="color: #783f04;">I didn't make big plans for Thanksgiving Day since it is a holiday. I spoke with my mom via phone that morning. We usually Zoom for Thanksgiving and eat together, but she had been invited to a friends' for dinner. After our conversation, I turned on the CMA awards on Hulu and started organizing my financial records drawer. I was rewriting all of the labels on the folders, changing out worn folders, pulling out records from 2021, and throwing away paperwork that was no longer needed. I worked on this until about 12 pm when I decided I was hungry and would go ahead and cook my turkey casserole. I shared my casserole recipe on my last blog. You can see it here: <a href="https://gatapleytree.blogspot.com/2022/11/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-friendly.html" target="_blank">Saturday Night Fun "Friendly Fill-ins" for Thanksgiving</a>. While my lunch was cooking, I worked on my organization project a little longer, but I ran out of file folders. So I tabled that project for another time. I heated some blackeye peas and chopped some onion to go with my casserole, and enjoyed my Thanksgiving dinner. It was yummy.</span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><span style="color: #783f04;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><span style="color: #783f04;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiS38QmWhVBfYVccIupyrvSkcnnSvDWgV6utSvJe0qulCZu2K0PkuHqO5mA6RfD7KoqGtvQtM5CLesvXsWEYbHYlsfbZkcZYbdhqTh2nL3-UpxtHwGas1-YNZZQCgk29bh9cAmf9x61UPcYZYt40VW5zNZoCCVmdq4AcVAT73JapQpnu9tI1MO1cXV-" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="692" data-original-width="519" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiS38QmWhVBfYVccIupyrvSkcnnSvDWgV6utSvJe0qulCZu2K0PkuHqO5mA6RfD7KoqGtvQtM5CLesvXsWEYbHYlsfbZkcZYbdhqTh2nL3-UpxtHwGas1-YNZZQCgk29bh9cAmf9x61UPcYZYt40VW5zNZoCCVmdq4AcVAT73JapQpnu9tI1MO1cXV-=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><span style="color: #783f04;">After lunch, I spoke with my BFF in Georgia. It's just her and her husband, but she goes all out and cooks a big Thanksgiving meal. She'll pay for it tomorrow, but I'm sure it was good eatin' today!</span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><span style="color: #783f04;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><span style="color: #783f04;">I spent quite a bit of time earlier in the day sending texts of Happy Thanksgiving GIFs to friends, co-workers, and cousins. I wanted to let people know I was thinking of them.</span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><span style="color: #783f04;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><span style="color: #783f04;">Around 4:30, I decided to tackle a couple a couple of things with my computer and printer that I had been putting off for months. The first item on the agenda was getting my printer to "work" again. It had suddenly stopped communicating with my computer a few months ago. So I decided to get to it and figure out the problem. First thing I found was that the printer's power cord was unplugged on the back. OK, easy fix. Perhaps a cat managed to do that. I turned it on and printed a few test pages. Black print is choppy; color print is fine. So I clean the printheads. Black ink quits working altogether. I check the ink level... almost full. Hmmm... Then I check the wireless connection so that I can print from the computer, phone, etc. Evidently, when I had to change out my wireless modem a couple of months ago, I didn't update the printer with the new network name or password. So I entered the information and guess what! I can print from the computer again! I print a test page. It's in black so it comes out blank. I change the font color to red, print again, and it comes out perfectly. Of course, I don't have a spare black ink cartridge. So I go on Amazon, and order remanufactured ink cartridges for the first time. They had the same number of good reviews as the name brand cartridges do, and I got two cartridges for way cheaper than I would at Walmart! </span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><span style="color: #783f04;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><span style="color: #783f04;">I counted that as project completed, even if I do have to wait for the black ink cartridge to be delivered!</span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><span style="color: #783f04;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><span style="color: #783f04;">The other project was the one that terrified me a little bit. In August, a new update for Family Tree Maker 2019 was released. When I tried to download this update, I got an error message. I reached out to support and was told that I would need to uninstall my FTM and re-install the software with the new updated included. That had stopped me in my tracks. </span></b><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><span style="color: #783f04;">I hate updating software because it never goes smoothly for me. </span></b><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><span style="color: #783f04;">So for three months, I had been hitting the "Remind Me Later" button every time I opened FTM and it offered to install the update. But Thanksgiving afternoon, it was time. So I got the directions support had sent me and got to it. First, I did a backup of my file in FTM. <i>(Do you keep multiple backups from different dates? Whenever I back up, I just keep the latest one.)</i> Then I uninstalled FTM 2019 from my computer. When that was done, I rebooted. I had gone to the FTM site and gotten the newest version of the program (with the update included) so when my computer came back up, I was ready to download and install. I did that and everything went well. Then I restored my backup. Family Tree Maker 2019 syncs with my Ancestry.com family tree. I sync after almost every research session. I add a lot of Ancestry hints to my tree, so I download them to my FTM and keep both sites up to date. Or I do a stint of looking up Find a Grave memorial pages and enter information from there into FTM. Then I sync and the new information uploads to my Ancestry tree. </span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><span style="color: #783f04;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><span style="color: #783f04;">My next step, of course, was to try to sync the two trees. Just to test. Well, that's when everything went wonky. It started syncing and told me it had over 18,000 citations to sync. What?! I stopped the sync and checked that I had the right number of people in my tree, right date of back up etc. I did. So I started the sync process again. By this time, it is late, so I leave it overnight to do its thing.</span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><span style="color: #783f04;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><span style="color: #783f04;">And that was my Thanksgiving. There weren't any earthshattering, exciting moments here either, but I enjoyed it. I get a feeling of accomplishment from getting projects done. And I am thankful for the time to do these things. </span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><span style="color: #783f04;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><span style="color: #783f04;">As all of you know, I am most thankful for my Mama. I will see her in January, and we will celebrate being together then. From our viewpoint, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day are just days on the calendar. We can celebrate each other any day of the year.</span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><span style="color: #783f04;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><span style="color: #783f04;">I am also thankful for the cousins I have met along the way. Each one is special to me, and I look forward to seeing a couple of them in January. </span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><span style="color: #783f04;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><span style="color: #783f04;">Last, but not least, I am grateful that during this last trip around the sun from Thanksgiving 2021-2022, my BFF and I found each other again. Relationships are hard, and I'm not very good at them. However, sometimes you have a strong enough friendship to just drop back, re-group, and come back stronger than ever. </span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><span style="color: #783f04;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><i><span style="color: #741b47;">P.S. Oh do you want to know what happened with the software upgrade? It ended up being a 48 hour nightmare. First time I contacted support, I was told that it was normal for the first sync to take awhile, because this updated version of FTM is made to make syncing more accurate and thorough. OK. Still wouldn't sync. It would get so far and freeze. Contact support again and after much run around and repeating myself, it was decided I needed to re-upload my FTM tree to Ancestry. I started that project this morning (Saturday). After doing all that, I had to delete my first tree from Ancestry since I didn't need two exact trees there. Then I needed to change the names of trees back to what they were (Georgia Tapley Tree) so it would make it easier for folks to find it on Ancestry. Then I did a couple of syncs to make sure that worked. It was about 5 pm today before I got back to where I was before this upgrade. Did I mention I hate software upgrades?</span></i></b></div><div><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><span style="color: #783f04;"><br /></span></b></div><div><br /></div></span></div></span></div>Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15061165008186408924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621956686414889979.post-7084179752109967822022-11-05T23:47:00.001-04:002022-11-05T23:47:49.642-04:00Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - "Friendly Fill-Ins" for Thanksgiving<p> <i style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">From Randy (<b>a </b></span><b>cousin discovery!!</b><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">) over at </span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5621956686414889979/513848308727226924#"><span>Genea-Musings</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">:</span></i></span></p><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">it's </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"><b><span>Saturday Night</span></b></span><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;"><span> </span><span>- </span></span></span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">time for more </span><span style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;"><b><span><span style="font-size: large;">Genealogy Fun!!!</span></span></b></span></span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5621956686414889979/513848308727226924#" style="color: #6699cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUDAWGYivkDsxHOlHDOq99Y1nimRUKQrQqfJgZTnp5Tc_-swGSm0JNjmwaoOul1L5YT7r2_xgl_edi6gy0xDNC65ZeZQraDsFP1jNxzz3zQXeXe6xVF06LMfAsLm-FGjnMLWt0JR59uNw/s400/Tweety+Bird+Yippee.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;"></span></span></div></div><div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;">Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:</span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><span style="color: red;"><b>A) This is a fun meme from 2016, thanks to Suzanne McClendon on the <a href="http://ps-annie.blogspot.com/2016/11/friendly-fill-ins_18.html" style="color: #221199; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">P.S. Annie </a>blog for the links.</b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><div><span style="color: red;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><b>B) Fill in the blanks for these four statements:</b></span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><b><span> (</span>1) One Thanksgiving tradition I have is __________________________.</b></span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><b><span> (</span>2) Black Friday ___________________________________________.</b></span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><b><span> </span>(3) The best part about Thanksgiving Day is _______________________.</b></span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><b><span> (</span>4) One Thanksgiving, _________________________________________.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: 700;">C) Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook post.</span></span></div></span><span style="background-color: white;"><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><span style="color: red;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><b>Here's mine:</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><b><br /></b></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia;"><b>(1) One Thanksgiving tradition I have is to make my Savory Turkey Casserole</b><b> out of leftover turkey. Even if I didn't have turkey for Thanksgiving, I'll get some from a friend and make my casserole. (Funny, I have never tried to make this casserole with chicken. Just turkey and just after Thanksgiving.) Here's the recipe for inquiring minds:</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYIZ3ozndk5hi4Blb7ph4WV7rYf8Vx7wBs1QgwU3juTpKOwCXM3bD4JN-VAeShb9jYwAymACuWAmxM4xkJQVhypc0Ab4lVIGCGIp4qAI5tur1bwEf8od_vdw_gFiQTgNouApphQ1j1I9TjSIt_iX9n-gWbtzVAhBLQ-MhFUmoMQbpqkCyjArpITXmu/s3903/Savory%20Turkey%20Casserole%20recipe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2366" data-original-width="3903" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYIZ3ozndk5hi4Blb7ph4WV7rYf8Vx7wBs1QgwU3juTpKOwCXM3bD4JN-VAeShb9jYwAymACuWAmxM4xkJQVhypc0Ab4lVIGCGIp4qAI5tur1bwEf8od_vdw_gFiQTgNouApphQ1j1I9TjSIt_iX9n-gWbtzVAhBLQ-MhFUmoMQbpqkCyjArpITXmu/w400-h243/Savory%20Turkey%20Casserole%20recipe.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>(2) Black Friday: just NO. I hate the crowds, the bait and switch the stores use, and even the name. I usually stay home and do lots of genealogy or scrapbooking.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>I do have one fun memory of this day. My ex-husband and I were in Augusta, spending Thanksgiving with my parents. He got up really early that Friday after Thanksgiving and went shopping. And he ended up on TV! The local news station was filming and even asked him some questions! Then he swore he would never do that again!</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>(3) The best part about Thanksgiving Day is the FOOD and the NAP afterwards! I also like to be thankful for both. </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>(4) One Thanksgiving, when I was young, my parents and I went to Florida and had Thanksgiving dinner with my Uncle Hugh, his son - my cousin, Ronnie - and Ronnie's wife, Toula. I remember that Toula's mother was there, and the two of them cooked. They are Greek, and the food was wonderful. Mom and I still miss Toula's cooking to this day! </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfTWRGGHK5awxkCWNvkliu53A-GnsZ2PrGSb7xIKKUR8rbvcgIlksmKEzqmlOAUePteAW5OSyOJZouKu0puqauEJUO5VbEnChltekP_svQoIXaooPTtOL9UywwUoANkDp7GlnubzyW0Jlm6Uz_LGf6BnxeYasirupOqXHZhcAhZHFXgUaTKu0LunQa/s697/TAPLEY,%20Ronald%20Hugh%20'Ronnie'%201947-%20&%20HATZIKROSTOY,%20Stamatoula%20'Toula'%201948-%20--%20circa%201980s%20Swainsboro.jpg%20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="697" data-original-width="673" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfTWRGGHK5awxkCWNvkliu53A-GnsZ2PrGSb7xIKKUR8rbvcgIlksmKEzqmlOAUePteAW5OSyOJZouKu0puqauEJUO5VbEnChltekP_svQoIXaooPTtOL9UywwUoANkDp7GlnubzyW0Jlm6Uz_LGf6BnxeYasirupOqXHZhcAhZHFXgUaTKu0LunQa/s320/TAPLEY,%20Ronald%20Hugh%20'Ronnie'%201947-%20&%20HATZIKROSTOY,%20Stamatoula%20'Toula'%201948-%20--%20circa%201980s%20Swainsboro.jpg%20.jpg" width="309" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Toula and Ronnie at our home in Swainsboro<br />for another Thanksgiving. circa 1981</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Seriously, those are always the best Thanksgivings - the ones that you have family and/or friends there to share it with you. </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Another Thanksgiving, my ex-husband and I hosted a "Friends Thanksgiving." We had about 3 or 4 couples over, and it was so enjoyable. </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Thanksgivings are very different now. The only tradition I miss is my ex-husband's fried turkey. YUM. </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Before the pandemic, Mom would come to North Carolina for Thanksgiving. Since the pandemic, we don't spend Thanksgiving together. It's OK. We Zoom and eat together. We save up the fun until our Christmas visit. Which this year is going to be in January! </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Whatever works, right?</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div></span></div></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span><span><span></span></span></span></div></span></div>Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15061165008186408924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621956686414889979.post-44284283485835142082022-10-23T22:29:00.000-04:002022-10-23T22:29:20.661-04:00A Time Line for Elizabeth Rebecca "Becky" Page Tapley (1844-1924)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmFX4hpY94yZE15Cya_fA3QS_gyfWwYFiv0W2N-VTrl0IdFMnjYkjGUTMfPn_V1OZhsjZGexKJQHAq58LinR8SCbVYAjWmVSMG7UWiWLgMAA_ylKYIDuhpJU6G6BVuu5cLnLA15kNyTbOdCa-x2n0aApnVR-zUAclt2xuYIZ_H1P0vfR2-vz7zD_2_/s1047/PAGE,%20Elizabeth%20Rebecca%20'Becky'%201844-1924.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1047" data-original-width="583" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmFX4hpY94yZE15Cya_fA3QS_gyfWwYFiv0W2N-VTrl0IdFMnjYkjGUTMfPn_V1OZhsjZGexKJQHAq58LinR8SCbVYAjWmVSMG7UWiWLgMAA_ylKYIDuhpJU6G6BVuu5cLnLA15kNyTbOdCa-x2n0aApnVR-zUAclt2xuYIZ_H1P0vfR2-vz7zD_2_/s320/PAGE,%20Elizabeth%20Rebecca%20'Becky'%201844-1924.jpg" width="178" /></a></div><br /> <span style="font-family: arial;">Our connection:</span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Liz (that's me!)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">↓↓↓</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Gilbert Earl Tapley, 1928-2008 (my father)</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">↓↓↓</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Lusion Keman Tapley, 1870-1935 (my grandfather)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">↓↓ </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Elizabeth Rebecca "Becky" Page, 1844-1924 (my great-grandmother)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red;">Time Line for the life of Elizabeth Rebecca "Becky" Page:</span></b><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87723910;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87723910;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87723910;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87723910;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87723910;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87723910;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk117451853;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk117451853;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk117451853;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725528;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725528;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725528;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"></span><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1844<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 0<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Birth</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">September 8</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Emanuel County, Georgia, USA</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1850<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 5<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Emanuel County, Georgia, USA</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1859<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 14<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Johnson County is formed from
parts of Laurens and Emanuel County.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1860<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 15<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Johnson County, Georgia, USA</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1860<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 15<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Father, Solomon Page, Jr. (1800-1860)
passed away in Washington County, Georgia, USA.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1861<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 16<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Historical Event</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><i><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Civil War </span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1864<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 19<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Marriage</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Married Harrell Samuel Horton
(1844-1908) on January 31 in Johnson County.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1866<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 21<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">The First Civil Rights Act</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">The first federal law that
defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally
protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons
of African descent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1866<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 21<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Marriage</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Married James Madison ‘Jim’
Tapley (1847-1912) on February 18 in Johnson County, Georgia, USA.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.75pt;" valign="top" width="120">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1867<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 22<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Historical Event</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<td style="background: #C5E0B3; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent6; mso-background-themetint: 102; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 225.0pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><i><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Sorry Mr. President, you can’t
do that.</span></i></b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders
without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove
any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice
and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the
next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a name="_Hlk87723910">1867<o:p></o:p></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87723910;">Age 22<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="background: #FFF2CC; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent4; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87723910;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Birth of 1<sup>st</sup> Child</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<td style="background: #FFF2CC; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent4; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 225.0pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87723910;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Franklin Morgan “Frank” Tapley (1867-1938) was born on April 7 in
Johnson County.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87723910;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87723910;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.75pt;" valign="top" width="120">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87723910;">1868<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87723910;">Age 23<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87723910;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Birth of Child</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<td style="background: #FFF2CC; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent4; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 225.0pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87723910;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">A second boy, James L “Jim” (1868-1941), was born July 17 in
Johnson County.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87723910;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87723910;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1870<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 25<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Residence</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">District 1201, Johnson County,
Georgia, USA</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1870<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 25<o:p></o:p></p>
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<td style="background: #FFF2CC; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent4; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Birth of Child</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<td style="background: #FFF2CC; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent4; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 225.0pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">A third boy, Lusion Keman
(1870-1935), was born on March 31.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.75pt;" valign="top" width="120">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a name="_Hlk117451853">1872<o:p></o:p></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk117451853;">Age 27<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td style="background: #C5E0B3; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent6; mso-background-themetint: 102; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk117451853;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Historical Event</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<td style="background: #C5E0B3; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent6; mso-background-themetint: 102; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 225.0pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk117451853;"><b><i><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">The Amnesty Act. </span></i></b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">A Federal law which reversed most of the penalties
on former Confederate soldiers by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Act affected
over 150,000 troops that were a part of the Civil War.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk117451853;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk117451853;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</td>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.75pt;" valign="top" width="120">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a name="_Hlk87724962"></a><a name="_Hlk87725528"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;">1873<o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725528;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;">Age
28<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725528;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"></span></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725528;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
</td>
<td style="background: #FFF2CC; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent4; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725528;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Birth of Child</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
</td>
<td style="background: #FFF2CC; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent4; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 225.0pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725528;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">A Girl!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elizabeth Virginia “Lizzie” (1873-1959) was
born on February 12<sup>th</sup>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725528;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"></span></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725528;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
</td>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.75pt;" valign="top" width="120">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;">1874<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;">Age 29<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td style="background: #FFF2CC; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent4; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Birth of Child</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
</td>
<td style="background: #FFF2CC; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent4; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 225.0pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Their second daughter, Magdaline (1874-abt 1886), was born.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;">1875<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;">Age 30<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Historical Event</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<td style="background: #C5E0B3; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent6; mso-background-themetint: 102; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 225.0pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"><b><i><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">A Treaty with Hawaii. </span></i></b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">In the Mid 1870s, the United States sought out the
Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the
Hawaiians access to the U.S. agricultural markets and it gave the U.S. a part
of land which later became Pearl Harbor.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 18;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.75pt;" valign="top" width="120">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1875<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 30<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<td style="background: #FFF2CC; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent4; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Birth of Child</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
</td>
<td style="background: #FFF2CC; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent4; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 225.0pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">A daughter, Tabitha “Bosch”
(1875-1956) was born on March 10.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 19;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.75pt;" valign="top" width="120">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1876<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 31<o:p></o:p></p>
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<td style="background: #C5E0B3; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent6; mso-background-themetint: 102; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Historical Event</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
</td>
<td style="background: #C5E0B3; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent6; mso-background-themetint: 102; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 225.0pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><i><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">The Battle of Little Bighorn. </span></i></b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">An armed conflict between the
Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7<sup>th</sup> Cavalry
of the U.S. Army. The battle was the most significant action of the Great
Sioux War of 1876.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 20;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.75pt;" valign="top" width="120">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1876<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 31<o:p></o:p></p>
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<td style="background: #FFF2CC; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent4; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Birth of Child</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
</td>
<td style="background: #FFF2CC; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent4; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 225.0pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">George Washington Sentell “Tell”
(1876-1944) was born July 5<sup>th</sup>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 21;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.75pt;" valign="top" width="120">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1878<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 33<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</td>
<td style="background: #FFF2CC; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent4; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Birth of Child</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
</td>
<td style="background: #FFF2CC; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent4; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 225.0pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">On April 10, Bennett Olin “Ol” (1878-1955)
was born.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 22;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.75pt;" valign="top" width="120">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1880<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 35<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
<td style="background: #FFF2CC; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent4; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Death of Parent</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
</td>
<td style="background: #FFF2CC; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent4; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 225.0pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Her mother, Elizabeth Caroline Scoggins
Page (1802-1880) passed away.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 23;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.75pt;" valign="top" width="120">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1880<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 35<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
<td style="background: #FFF2CC; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent4; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Birth of Child</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
</td>
<td style="background: #FFF2CC; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent4; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 225.0pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">A girl, Marry (1880-1885), was
born February 10.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 24;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.75pt;" valign="top" width="120">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1881<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 36<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p>
</td>
<td style="background: #FFF2CC; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent4; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Birth of Child</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
</td>
<td style="background: #FFF2CC; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent4; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 225.0pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Solomon (1881-1971) was born on
March 5.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 25;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.75pt;" valign="top" width="120">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1885<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 40<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p>
</td>
<td style="background: #FFF2CC; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent4; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Death of Child</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
</td>
<td style="background: #FFF2CC; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent4; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 225.0pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Daughter, Marry, died on
February 25, at age 5.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 26;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.75pt;" valign="top" width="120">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1886<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 42<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
<td style="background: #FFF2CC; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent4; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Birth of Child</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
</td>
<td style="background: #FFF2CC; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent4; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 225.0pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Vianna Bell (1886-1965) was born
October 4<sup>th</sup>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 27;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.75pt;" valign="top" width="120">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Abt 1886<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 42<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
<td style="background: #FFF2CC; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent4; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Death of Child</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
</td>
<td style="background: #FFF2CC; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent4; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 225.0pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Daughter, Magdaline, passed away
when she was about 12 years old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 28;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.75pt;" valign="top" width="120">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1889<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 45<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
<td style="background: #FFF2CC; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent4; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Birth of last child</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">On August 5, Bascom Bishop
Tapley (1889-1967) was born in Johnson County.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1890<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 46<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Birth of 1<sup>st</sup> Grandchild</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Frank Tapley, son of Becky’s
oldest son, Franklin Morgan ‘Frank’, was born during this year.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1893<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 48<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Historical Event</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><i><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">The Last Public Hanging in
Georgia.</span></i></b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">
The last public hanging in Georgia was on September 28, 1893. The General
Assembly prohibited public executions in December 1893. Prior to this law,
Georgians commonly traveled to witness scheduled public executions.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1900<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 55<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Residence</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">District 1203, Johnson County,
Georgia, USA</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1910<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 65<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Residence</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Powell, Johnson County, Georgia,
USA</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1912<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 68<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Death of Spouse</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Jim passed away on November 5 in
Johnson County, Georgia, USA.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1918-1919<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 74-75<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Grandson AWOL from Army</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Gordon Wesley Tapley (1894-1959),
the eldest son of James L ‘Jim’, went AWOL from the Army and hid at and
around his Grandmother Becky’s house for just over a year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When he wasn’t plowing his grandmother’s
fields dressed as a woman, he was down in the woods, camping on the Ohoopee.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1923<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 78<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Historical Event</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><i><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Amendment of Equal Rights. </span></i></b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">In a proposed amendment to help
guarantee equal legal rights for all citizens of the United States. Its main
objective is to end legal distinctions between the two genders in terms of divorce,
property, employment, and other legal matters. Even thought it isn’t the 28<sup>th</sup>
Amendment yet, it has started conversations about the meaning of legal
equality.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1924<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 79<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Death</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Becky passed away on May 18 in
Johnson County, Georgia, USA.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="text-align: left;"><o:p> Many records contain the information that Becky's first husband, Harrell Solomon Horton, died in 1864, leading to the assumption that he was killed in the Civil War. However, much to my surprise a few months ago, I found out that Solomon lived, came back home to Georgia, married someone else, and had children. He lived to the age of 64! I can find no documentation of a divorce between my great-grandmother and him. He married Nancy Price the same year that Jim and Becky got married - 1866. So I have a few possible theories: (1) There is a divorce record somewhere that I have not located yet; (2) He was missing during the war and presumed dead. So Becky though she was widowed and married someone else about the same time her husband reappeared. Still does not explain the lack of a divorce record; or (3) They just bypassed the divorce process and moved on with their separate lives for whatever reason. I would imagine that in war-torn Georgia in 1866, verifying a couple was divorced was not so important. So I will continue to research.</o:p></span></p><p></p>Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15061165008186408924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621956686414889979.post-2849217916750383302022-10-23T00:05:00.000-04:002022-10-23T00:05:08.655-04:00Checking In<p>Hello and welcome back to my genealogy blog. I have been away for almost 4 months! Time does fly by. I did not realize it had been so long. I apologize for the hiatus, but hopefully I can come back with more interesting stories about the "family" I have discovered. Tonight, though, I want to talk a little bit about the family I have known - the ones I have lost in the last year. It's been a lot of loss, and I don't believe that I have fully processed it. </p><p>Back in late February or early March, I received a call from my niece. She asked me if I knew "Aunt Patty" had died? Her Aunt Patty was my sister. No, I did not know she had passed. Turns out she had passed 4-5 months earlier on October 11, 2021. Pat had not spoken to me in over 10 years, but my mom still spoke with her from time to time. I would think her family would have at least let my mom - Pat's stepmother - know. Or her niece. They didn't. </p><p>Then almost immediately after receiving this news, I heard again from my niece. This time her father - my brother - died on March 21. Now I had not spoken to my brother in probably 25-30 years; neither had my mom. I tried to be supportive and helpful to my niece - even stepping in and finding my other niece (her sister) and giving her the news. I spent hours trying to find her, and when I did, it was another disappointment for me in this dysfunctional family. She was only interested in what she could get, and I did not hear from her again when I wouldn't give her anything. My oldest niece, the one I was trying to support and help in this difficult time, hasn't spoken to me since her father's funeral. I have no idea why. </p><p>Now what you may be thinking here is why don't I just call her? I gave up chasing her many, many years ago. I haven't seen her since I left Georgia in 2011. We talk very rarely. I used to try... a lot. After a while, I got tired of being the one calling and trying to stay in touch. So I gave up. The (not so) funny and ironic thing is that she said to me after her father died that she didn't not want us to end up like the rest of the family - not talking or seeing each other - and dying without making things right. And I haven't heard from her since. </p><p>Yes, I was estranged from my brother and sister. Our relationship has always been complicated. First of all, they were 20 and 18 years older than me - my father's children from his first marriage. He was 38 years old by the time he had me. I was raised by my father. He practically abandoned Harry and Patty. He showed up in their lives very sporadically and did not support them at all. My brother was in the military so he only visited occasionally when I was growing up. I worshipped him, but he was a liar, a user, and an abuser. I saw that once I became an adult. So I cut off contact once my youngest niece was grown herself and out of his house. </p><p>I didn't even meet Pat until I was 5 or 6 years old. She had a lot of resentment toward my father. I can remember many cards and letters he sent her over the years that would come back marked "Return to Sender." I honestly believe she was jealous of me for having him in the house my entire childhood. There were a couple of times as adults we tried to forge a relationship, and I told her then that growing up with our father was no picnic, and she didn't have a reason to be jealous of me. In the end, my sister could not or would not accept who I am, so she cut off contact. </p><p>Yet, it hit me hard when they both passed. They were my brother and sister. No matter what happened between us, they were family. We had the same blood flowing through our veins. My sister and I looked alike, talked alike, walked alike, and had the same sense of humor. We both were like our father. My brother used to write me cards and letters when I was young. He was fun. He could be kind, like when he bought me my first pair of contacts. Yes, I regret not having things right between us before they left this earth. While my brain knew I wasn't at fault, my heart still hurt for the loss and what might have been.</p><p>On June 27, my Aunt Evelyn passed away. She was 90 years old and tired. She had been suffering for a while. I am sorry I didn't get to see her one last time. She was a beautiful person, full of love and care. She accepted me completely and loved me unconditionally. She was my mother's sister, and the last aunt I had. I miss our talks. I miss the many times she would repeat how much she loved me before we hung up the phone. Another pain to my heart.</p><p>Then on September 21, my first cousin, Ronnie, passed away. Ronnie was the son of my favorite uncle, Hugh, and had been a part of my life my entire life. He loved the genealogy work I did, and would drive all the way up from Jacksonville, Florida, to meet me in Johnson County and visit family cemeteries. Ronnie was grumpy, hard-headed, a loner, and most likely depressed. In other words, he was a typical Tapley! And losing him has taken another piece of my heart. </p><p>Mom and I are headed to Jacksonville this week for Ronnie's memorial service. I will get through it, but I expect it will be difficult. Life is very short. This is brought home to us as we get older and begin to lose those we love. While it is inevitable, it is not easy. No matter the complications in the relationship, it still hurts me. </p><p>So 2022 has not been particularly kind. As always, I deal with it. I have a roof over my head, food to eat, cats to love, and an unbelievably kind, sweet, and wonderful mother. And I do genealogy "stuff" every chance I get!</p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3c60-OL-VRZDUSb-DAnYxI_y7Wu3LxyRv0cESz7g99BbR_UxiHzv8JcoB4jG4CfR1GxoL3eg6oRVG57RHUGQgrVSkpBLctHMwKimXpbmk1p_jkHvMAa13LNrlYJEas_g6Maswi9edY0dV6EVI37y17RIxsVGtYXIzNX4ka7Hy-b0BQUzKG3T7I9hj/s220/TAPLEY,%20Harry%20Earl%20Sr%201946-2022.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="220" data-original-width="170" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3c60-OL-VRZDUSb-DAnYxI_y7Wu3LxyRv0cESz7g99BbR_UxiHzv8JcoB4jG4CfR1GxoL3eg6oRVG57RHUGQgrVSkpBLctHMwKimXpbmk1p_jkHvMAa13LNrlYJEas_g6Maswi9edY0dV6EVI37y17RIxsVGtYXIzNX4ka7Hy-b0BQUzKG3T7I9hj/s1600/TAPLEY,%20Harry%20Earl%20Sr%201946-2022.jpg" width="170" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Harry Earl Tapley 1946-2022</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju0nuOOEji0SEjw0KtmqduMsL4pX2fBLGAMjQzcTBDscdp47qWU_lOONoJB3uWbrnDnpNtuD5iLOg15Nw2xoKgWNv7Am_nvPTWDIwnPJNTw7oja_vlOEl-iJjijnTGzcH0bFAUDA-UgJdaG1YmoF-yvxk2Pqr6aPNX5KBgc_Q_qo7EfGdcTl0t8VRr/s3072/08-14-2009%20Pat%20with%20layout.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="2304" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju0nuOOEji0SEjw0KtmqduMsL4pX2fBLGAMjQzcTBDscdp47qWU_lOONoJB3uWbrnDnpNtuD5iLOg15Nw2xoKgWNv7Am_nvPTWDIwnPJNTw7oja_vlOEl-iJjijnTGzcH0bFAUDA-UgJdaG1YmoF-yvxk2Pqr6aPNX5KBgc_Q_qo7EfGdcTl0t8VRr/w240-h320/08-14-2009%20Pat%20with%20layout.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Patricia Elaine 'Patty' or 'Pat' Tapley Strickland 1949-2021<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjjxIfRQ5JFDN_SMFyA6PRVJsY_O3eJ5-hOMpz1LbZ4JcC6ae1ZL8mz-fn9z5wbF8VYmRSfChB9PxYKLZaF-E_uYyD0_sMIcOzn7Oikiwm9jK7vYhJAOdG1T3W8Ik_8ww7JUWdquIhr_afvaqAXOMk96MlXbQzPDvjVp9dRSj7TSvvl3q8SCVwjt1D/s1201/01%2016%202010%20Ronnie%20-%20cropped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1201" data-original-width="802" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjjxIfRQ5JFDN_SMFyA6PRVJsY_O3eJ5-hOMpz1LbZ4JcC6ae1ZL8mz-fn9z5wbF8VYmRSfChB9PxYKLZaF-E_uYyD0_sMIcOzn7Oikiwm9jK7vYhJAOdG1T3W8Ik_8ww7JUWdquIhr_afvaqAXOMk96MlXbQzPDvjVp9dRSj7TSvvl3q8SCVwjt1D/s320/01%2016%202010%20Ronnie%20-%20cropped.jpg" width="214" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ronald Hugh 'Ronnie' Tapley 1947-2022</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6UVcl_53Uu-07-tf2vAFrC-CziSnSAkY8kK7ndqyHfgVH_wET_BoEmQLp9mc3hsDPW8ZvgoWR0JyMByvIz58Sd2Uz8g2tCM2OJeVwS1LvGvIDuUnHUHz4NpaQOIMKVwDbLVZ_CFaJcfA7oq1RxLmRjmnszrijzo3-XYQ5_9jupsdwvayrpo7w3GRf/s4000/IMG_20220305_110117400_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6UVcl_53Uu-07-tf2vAFrC-CziSnSAkY8kK7ndqyHfgVH_wET_BoEmQLp9mc3hsDPW8ZvgoWR0JyMByvIz58Sd2Uz8g2tCM2OJeVwS1LvGvIDuUnHUHz4NpaQOIMKVwDbLVZ_CFaJcfA7oq1RxLmRjmnszrijzo3-XYQ5_9jupsdwvayrpo7w3GRf/w200-h150/IMG_20220305_110117400_HDR.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Panther<br /></td></tr></tbody></table></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEP6oGiaOlagsmQJucocua4GnqUp-BUa4xkEBjhYmgsULeLlA7DgJHeE8shZKY7MFIzazR_bBRxXW6FWn--nzJCnntgjcIMSnqy60g2SKejee07PAwVseHkkJNPWCWNq0onzb13JEEChOVDF_4_WrhBiBbtDM2fYLpORK0mHeDVZ4V9FhEKBfBX3lW/s2816/10-15-2009%20Mom%20at%20the%20Grand%20Canyon%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2816" data-original-width="2112" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEP6oGiaOlagsmQJucocua4GnqUp-BUa4xkEBjhYmgsULeLlA7DgJHeE8shZKY7MFIzazR_bBRxXW6FWn--nzJCnntgjcIMSnqy60g2SKejee07PAwVseHkkJNPWCWNq0onzb13JEEChOVDF_4_WrhBiBbtDM2fYLpORK0mHeDVZ4V9FhEKBfBX3lW/s320/10-15-2009%20Mom%20at%20the%20Grand%20Canyon%202.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My mother, 2009, Grand Canyon</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGPZllbkCSEFdGO6vXsoOIqM4Jlgk56lt5J_TKZHSBnidR45PFqD2lMHnIZo6u-ShFrM2U9UDOFLeRvkpHlX4mjT26j0gpZU5l-ymZFrXPM06AkBRO25-FvkIaW-Uj0JLDPqv7x8UmEieFvcVhLJHB1hLjj4aoaJl0jDoSuFnugtPSchYgufagYQmi/s4000/IMG_20220415_155424679.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGPZllbkCSEFdGO6vXsoOIqM4Jlgk56lt5J_TKZHSBnidR45PFqD2lMHnIZo6u-ShFrM2U9UDOFLeRvkpHlX4mjT26j0gpZU5l-ymZFrXPM06AkBRO25-FvkIaW-Uj0JLDPqv7x8UmEieFvcVhLJHB1hLjj4aoaJl0jDoSuFnugtPSchYgufagYQmi/w200-h150/IMG_20220415_155424679.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cupcake and Zeus</td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiznvMcmwkOfMsG7h-zn856MEzEDf9F_ES3y3yROU-aa08ehQ8X86PwcjYEulPfqZAXJdWdfxqtJt3zXRh2r0dZatAx4a9dpJvl3p8pnaF6wHykNzd2Hcgg8TiNX1nnP2Ts5pwsM3u3GdslfJk0a8DuxxI4BjTBtn1z3nm8iiTCnNXuyOM3FKEtpG22/s4000/IMG_20220812_184415915.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiznvMcmwkOfMsG7h-zn856MEzEDf9F_ES3y3yROU-aa08ehQ8X86PwcjYEulPfqZAXJdWdfxqtJt3zXRh2r0dZatAx4a9dpJvl3p8pnaF6wHykNzd2Hcgg8TiNX1nnP2Ts5pwsM3u3GdslfJk0a8DuxxI4BjTBtn1z3nm8iiTCnNXuyOM3FKEtpG22/w200-h150/IMG_20220812_184415915.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Biggie Smalls</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15061165008186408924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621956686414889979.post-14445678798456368922022-07-03T01:18:00.000-04:002022-07-03T01:18:03.792-04:00Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - What Genealogy Activity Have You Spent Time On?<p> <i style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">From Randy (<b>a </b></span><b>cousin discovery!!</b><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">) over at </span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5621956686414889979/513848308727226924#"><span>Genea-Musings</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">:</span></i></span></p><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">it's </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"><b><span>Saturday Night</span></b></span><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;"><span> </span><span>- </span></span></span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">time for more </span><span style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;"><b><span><span style="font-size: large;">Genealogy Fun!!!</span></span></b></span></span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5621956686414889979/513848308727226924#" style="color: #6699cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUDAWGYivkDsxHOlHDOq99Y1nimRUKQrQqfJgZTnp5Tc_-swGSm0JNjmwaoOul1L5YT7r2_xgl_edi6gy0xDNC65ZeZQraDsFP1jNxzz3zQXeXe6xVF06LMfAsLm-FGjnMLWt0JR59uNw/s400/Tweety+Bird+Yippee.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;"></span></span></div></div><div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;">Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:</span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">(1)</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span><span style="color: red;"> <i>Quoting Randy: </i>"I am completely out of ideas for the this week - and am late in posting. What genealogy activity have you spent time on this week?"</span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">(2) </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">Tell us all about it in </span></span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;">your own blog post, in a comment to this post, in a post on Facebook, or on Twitter. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span><span><span><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span>Here's mine:</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span>I have been continuing to add Ozmuns from Find A Grave to my family tree. They seem to be going on forever. Now that we're in July, this is my third month of doing this! </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span>I did find an interesting fact today... A man named Hale VanderCook, who was married to my 3rd cousin, founded the VanderCook Cornet School (now the VanderCook College of Music) in Chicago in 1909. You can read about the history of the school <a href="https://www.vandercook.edu/about-vandercook/history/" target="_blank">here</a>. The school is still going strong today - 113 years later!</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span>I have also been correcting some source citations in Family Tree Maker. Specifically the ones for Newspapers.com. When Ancestry adds those citations, they do a separate citation for every single item you've saved from The Atlanta Constitution, for example. I'm trying to combine them so all the citations for a particular newspaper are under one source title... if that makes sense. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>The only other things I have done this week is check out obits and hints that have come into my email. Ancestry.com sent out hints from the 1950 census so I checked those out which led to looking at a whole lot of other hints. Also, I have Google searches for certain key words (surnames). So lots of time, an obituary containing that surname will drop into my inbox, and I'll research to find out if I am related to the person. I find some interesting connections that way.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b><br /></b></span></div></span></span></span></div></span></div>Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15061165008186408924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621956686414889979.post-20412851444708559422022-06-25T20:52:00.005-04:002022-06-25T20:52:57.771-04:00Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Your Paternal Grandfather's Matrilineal Line<p> <i style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">From Randy (<b>a </b></span><b>cousin discovery!!</b><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">) over at </span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5621956686414889979/513848308727226924#"><span>Genea-Musings</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">:</span></i></span></p><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">it's </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"><b><span>Saturday Night</span></b></span><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;"><span> </span><span>- </span></span></span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">time for more </span><span style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;"><b><span><span style="font-size: large;">Genealogy Fun!!!</span></span></b></span></span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5621956686414889979/513848308727226924#" style="color: #6699cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUDAWGYivkDsxHOlHDOq99Y1nimRUKQrQqfJgZTnp5Tc_-swGSm0JNjmwaoOul1L5YT7r2_xgl_edi6gy0xDNC65ZeZQraDsFP1jNxzz3zQXeXe6xVF06LMfAsLm-FGjnMLWt0JR59uNw/s400/Tweety+Bird+Yippee.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;"></span></span></div></div><div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;">Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:</span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">(1)</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span><span style="color: red;"> Who is in your paternal grandfather's matrilineal line (i.e., the mother of your paternal grandfather, her mother, her mother, and so on)?</span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span><span><span><div style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">(2) </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">Tell us all about it in </span></span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;">your own blog post, in a comment to this post, in a post on Facebook, or on Twitter. </span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span>Here's mine:</span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span>My paternal grandfather was Lusion Keman Tapley (1870-1935).</span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwf-88Nl-Rx0nM5dxp3-gRCZN9JCD-MqLLDK75m5xIVHR8r3gl-KWmG_3BkgzH4YIh6UHIH5VT-HjAJpFAf3JznEWqW5Lu2-RgH6sqgEw7zetVJDwxwszbA54XiXReZMzyFzWJemTsj9rdoVXY0SCYD9Ke1_q51zhZj61OB-lpao4Qea4n6BiSXgnS/s290/TAPLEY,%20Lusion%20Keman%201870-1935.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="290" data-original-width="171" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwf-88Nl-Rx0nM5dxp3-gRCZN9JCD-MqLLDK75m5xIVHR8r3gl-KWmG_3BkgzH4YIh6UHIH5VT-HjAJpFAf3JznEWqW5Lu2-RgH6sqgEw7zetVJDwxwszbA54XiXReZMzyFzWJemTsj9rdoVXY0SCYD9Ke1_q51zhZj61OB-lpao4Qea4n6BiSXgnS/s1600/TAPLEY,%20Lusion%20Keman%201870-1935.jpg" width="171" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span>His mother, my great-grandmother, was Elizabeth Rebecca "Becky" Page (1844-1924) who married James Madison "Jim" Tapley (1847-1912) in Johnson County, Georgia in 1866.</span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghj_RLcrhSChek945y4WIlax6o6S6hGa05kLn03UbKMcpP1KQtkIyFXGeHBMWC4WwGon__wIOwoH0M8iF8SIoADlKrTGGU6qzje3poC3eiQdDc8bhJyjkYM4yiaUr_wA-CNfRgnrDI89v4XE9akJk_UyjXo_vMTE9PoAAui3i3P12hq4RJnaMZxFLM/s923/TAPLEY,%20James%20Madison%20'Jim'%201847-1912%20&%20PAGE,%20Elizabeth%20Rebecca%20'Becky'%201844-1924,%20B&W.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="923" data-original-width="746" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghj_RLcrhSChek945y4WIlax6o6S6hGa05kLn03UbKMcpP1KQtkIyFXGeHBMWC4WwGon__wIOwoH0M8iF8SIoADlKrTGGU6qzje3poC3eiQdDc8bhJyjkYM4yiaUr_wA-CNfRgnrDI89v4XE9akJk_UyjXo_vMTE9PoAAui3i3P12hq4RJnaMZxFLM/s320/TAPLEY,%20James%20Madison%20'Jim'%201847-1912%20&%20PAGE,%20Elizabeth%20Rebecca%20'Becky'%201844-1924,%20B&W.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><b>Her mother, my 2nd great-grandmother, was Elizabeth Carolina "Betsy" Scoggins (1802-1880) who married Solomon Page (1800-1860) in Washington County, Georgia on July 14, 1839. </b></div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Their marriage date and location are unknown. </b></div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"> </span><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">*The identities of Wright Scoggins and Nancy E McClammy have not been proven. This information has been gleaned from other family trees, but I have been unable to prove the information to be absolutely true.</span><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"> </span></i></b></span><br /></span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span>And that is the end of the line. That is all I know for sure about my paternal grandfather's matrilineal line. I have searched for Scoggins and McClammy information before, but as it is getting back to the 18th century, where entire families were not listed on the census, information has been harder to come by. </span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span><br /></span></span></div></span></span></span></div></span></div>Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15061165008186408924noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621956686414889979.post-57330060063234921372022-06-18T23:00:00.000-04:002022-06-18T23:00:34.944-04:00Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Your Grandmother Memories<p> <i style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">From Randy (<b>a </b></span><b>cousin discovery!!</b><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">) over at </span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5621956686414889979/513848308727226924#"><span>Genea-Musings</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">:</span></i></span></p><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">it's </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"><b><span>Saturday Night</span></b></span><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;"><span> </span><span>- </span></span></span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">time for more </span><span style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;"><b><span><span style="font-size: large;">Genealogy Fun!!!</span></span></b></span></span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5621956686414889979/513848308727226924#" style="color: #6699cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUDAWGYivkDsxHOlHDOq99Y1nimRUKQrQqfJgZTnp5Tc_-swGSm0JNjmwaoOul1L5YT7r2_xgl_edi6gy0xDNC65ZeZQraDsFP1jNxzz3zQXeXe6xVF06LMfAsLm-FGjnMLWt0JR59uNw/s400/Tweety+Bird+Yippee.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;"></span></span></div></div><div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;">Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:</span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">(1)</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span><span style="color: red;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiad_UqHArgmghFjPpMEInHSrC3gDA699XAgW3FZEeb0reEeqQzboHQNbnGaGua3J3iurknCZBD0mpNkZxrFJxoNmYL6844ltsbBI0uI0vYPBvZmzTJeGjPBxzRRRkkwN0yDN88KaU3nHdDzm4d9-dGjQqbFAxpwxD8lwD9oY5QReyJLCRTPUOA87Gw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="345" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiad_UqHArgmghFjPpMEInHSrC3gDA699XAgW3FZEeb0reEeqQzboHQNbnGaGua3J3iurknCZBD0mpNkZxrFJxoNmYL6844ltsbBI0uI0vYPBvZmzTJeGjPBxzRRRkkwN0yDN88KaU3nHdDzm4d9-dGjQqbFAxpwxD8lwD9oY5QReyJLCRTPUOA87Gw=w345-h345" width="345" /></a></div><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">(2) </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">Tell us all about it in </span></span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;">your own blog post, in a comment to this post, in a post on Facebook, or on Twitter. </span></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span>Here's mine:</span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;">Unfortunately, I was very young when I lost both of my grandmothers.</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;">I was just 3 years old when my paternal grandmother, Nealie Drake Tapley (1895-1970) passed away. I only remember seeing her once. She lived in a high rise apartment building in Augusta, and my mom took me to see her. All I remember is her giving me a cookie, and being very tall and intimidating. </div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;">My maternal grandmother, Ethel Ranney Tapley (1913-1973) passed away when I was 6 years old. She and Pop Pop lived in Swainsboro, and I know that we went to visit them fairly often. Honestly, I don't really remember her. I have tons of pictures so I know things happened and we shared occasions, but I don't have a memory of them at all. I only have two actual memories that include Grandma. The first is my mom telling me that Pop Pop had passed away, and we needed to go to Swainsboro. (We lived in Jacksonville, Florida then.) Then I remember vividly when we went to pick up Grandma and her passing away in my father's arms right there in the parking lot. (I wrote about this in a previous blog post. If interested, you can read it here: <a href="https://gatapleytree.blogspot.com/2011/01/sympathy-saturday-charles-morgan-tapley.html" target="_blank">Sympathy Saturday: Charles Morgan Tapley and Ethel Ranney Tapley</a>. </div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;">So I really missed out on a couple of special relationships. I hope to see them again one day, and they will tell me all about their lives.</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><br /></div></span></div>Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15061165008186408924noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621956686414889979.post-3969425638665520672022-06-14T23:47:00.002-04:002022-06-14T23:47:49.274-04:00A Time Line for James Madison "Jim" Tapley (1847-1912)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkZkI9aXtQay3hW2E-WQELifOwXeVV91eUgd7pcE8Z5g_oBf7rlq5P1LTgHil489-QOGUoSzuXG8-Hbm4OImaDGpunGWw_1Qbg8oVYuh_wyrEdzQrSOiXxnArRkbzBdpXjCp7sp_ReQ38u0w-ESOQPVnMuJ4R5aJ2AHNPICKjidBBDDH5iY9KDTYk0/s609/TAPLEY,%20James%20Madison%201847-1912%20--%20Tin%20type.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="609" data-original-width="362" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkZkI9aXtQay3hW2E-WQELifOwXeVV91eUgd7pcE8Z5g_oBf7rlq5P1LTgHil489-QOGUoSzuXG8-Hbm4OImaDGpunGWw_1Qbg8oVYuh_wyrEdzQrSOiXxnArRkbzBdpXjCp7sp_ReQ38u0w-ESOQPVnMuJ4R5aJ2AHNPICKjidBBDDH5iY9KDTYk0/s320/TAPLEY,%20James%20Madison%201847-1912%20--%20Tin%20type.jpg" width="190" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTzKc9tftsgXy_GjOJmvkAjXC9AlSF1Ben1VMnFv9twZXH1FAS4jsfySkmIOR1OXaFBV101AwrgGf7VHrY9m2V8Ivm4dE3JgiafuguCBy_Cjpy47awAbOmFSCuzvrmR6rS41sKwXgP_SAzN4XpqIQF2uGOFokUEyfK5DTzHhVoQ40MtxvCsXcoGtT9/s1346/TAPLEY,%20James%20Madison%20'Jim'%201847-1912.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span> </span><span> </span><img border="0" data-original-height="1346" data-original-width="897" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTzKc9tftsgXy_GjOJmvkAjXC9AlSF1Ben1VMnFv9twZXH1FAS4jsfySkmIOR1OXaFBV101AwrgGf7VHrY9m2V8Ivm4dE3JgiafuguCBy_Cjpy47awAbOmFSCuzvrmR6rS41sKwXgP_SAzN4XpqIQF2uGOFokUEyfK5DTzHhVoQ40MtxvCsXcoGtT9/s320/TAPLEY,%20James%20Madison%20'Jim'%201847-1912.jpg" width="213" /></a></div></div> <br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Our connection:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Liz (that's me!)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">↓↓↓</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Gilbert Earl Tapley, 1928-2008 (my father)</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">↓↓↓</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Lusion Keman Tapley, 1870-1935 (my grandfather)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">↓↓ </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">James Madison 'Jim' Tapley, 1847-1912 (my great-grandfather)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red;">Time Line for the life of James Madison "Jim" Tapley:</span></b><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 2<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Residence<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Laurens County, Georgia, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1858<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 11<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Historical Event<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Johnson County is formed from
parts of Laurens and Emanuel County.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1860<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 12<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Residence<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Johnson County, Georgia, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1861<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 13<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Historical Event<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Civil War – Some 11,000
Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state – a state that suffered
immense destruction.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1864-1865<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 17-18<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Military Service<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">March 15, 1864 – April 19, 1865<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Private with Company F, 48<sup>th</sup>
Regiment, Johnson County (GA) Battleground Guards. Fought in the battles of Chancellorsville,
Spotsylvania, The Battle of the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg
(Battle of the Crater). Surrendered at
Appomattox, Virginia on April 9, 1865.
Walked back home to Georgia. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1864<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 17<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Death of Brother<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">July 30<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Jim’s oldest brother, Francis “Frank”,
died in the Battle of the Crater at Petersburg, Virginia. Frank was a 1<sup>st</sup> Corporal in the
same company as Jim. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1866<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 18<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Marriage<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">February 18<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Jim married Elizabeth Rebecca ‘Becky’
Page (1844-1924) in Johnson County, Georgia, USA. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a name="_Hlk87723910">1867<o:p></o:p></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 19<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Birth of 1<sup>st</sup> Child<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Franklin Morgan “Frank” Tapley was born on April 7 in Johnson
County.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1868<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 20<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Historical Event<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><i>The Fourteenth Amendment. </i></b>As one of the Reconstruction
Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment addressed the rights and protections
that all citizens of the United States have. The amendment also limits
actions of state and local officials in all states.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1868<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 21<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Birth of Child<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">A second boy, James “Jim”, was born July 17 in Johnson County.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1870<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 22<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Historical Event<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><i>The Fifteenth Amendment.</i></b>
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen
the right to vote based on that citizen’s race, color, or previous condition
of servitude. It was the last of the
Reconstruction Amendments.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1870<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 22<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Birth of Child<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">A third boy, Lusion Keman, was
born on March 31.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a name="_Hlk87724962"></a><a name="_Hlk87725528">1873<o:p></o:p></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age
25<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Birth of Child<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">A Girl! Elizabeth Virginia “Lizzie” was born on
February 12<sup>th</sup>. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1874<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 27<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Birth of Child<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Their second daughter, Magdaline, was born.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1875<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 32<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Historical Event<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><i>A New Civil Rights Act. </i></b>During the response to civil
rights violations to African Americans, the bill was passed giving African
Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation,
and to prohibit exclusion from jury duty. While many in the public opposed
this law, the African Americans greatly favored it. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1875<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 27<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Birth of Child<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">A daughter, Tabitha “Bosch” was
born on March 10.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1876<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 28<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Historical Event<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><i>The First World’s Fair in the U.S.
</i></b> The first official World’s Fair was held to celebrate
the 100<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of
Independence in Philadelphia. 37 countries provided venues for all to see.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1876<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 29<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Historical Event<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><i>The Battle of Little Bighorn. </i></b>An armed conflict between the
Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7<sup>th</sup> Cavalry
of the U.S. Army. The battle was the most significant action of the Great
Sioux War of 1876.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1876<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 29<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Birth of Child<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">George Washington Sentell “Tell”
was born July 5<sup>th</sup>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1878<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 30<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Birth of Child<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">On April 10, Bennett Olin “Ol”
was born.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1880<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 32<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Birth of Child<o:p></o:p></b></p>
</td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">A girl, Marry, was born February
10.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1881<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 33<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Birth of Child<o:p></o:p></b></p>
</td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Solomon was born on March 5.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1885<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 37<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Death of Child<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Daughter, Marry, died on
February 25, at age 5.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1886<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 39<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Birth of Child<o:p></o:p></b></p>
</td>
<td style="background: #FFF2CC; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent4; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 225.0pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Vianna Bell was born October 4<sup>th</sup>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Abt 1886<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 39-40<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Death of Child<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Daughter, Magdaline, passed away
when she was about 12 years old. Jim
was out of town, selling timber at the time.
He did not find out until he returned and disembarked the train in
Bartow.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1889<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 42<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">On August 5, Bascom Bishop
Tapley was born in Johnson County.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Between 1880
and 1900<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Sometime between the 1880 and
1900 censuses, Jim’s parents, Georgia Washington Tapley (1814-) and Elizabeth
Hicks (1824-) passed away.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1910<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 62<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1912<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 65<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Jim passed away on November 5 in
Johnson County, Georgia, USA.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">He was buried at Oaky Grove
Primitive Baptist Church cemetery right down the road from where he had lived
most of his life.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> Jim and Becky had a total of 12 children; 10 of which lived to adulthood. Jim was a farmer and had enough land to split it between all of his children. My father used to tell many stories about his aunts and uncles. </o:p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></p>Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15061165008186408924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621956686414889979.post-67760412855124758672022-06-12T01:16:00.001-04:002022-06-12T01:16:40.866-04:00Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - What Genealogy Search/Research Did You Do Last Week?<p> <i style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">From Randy (<b>a </b></span><b>cousin discovery!!</b><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">) over at </span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5621956686414889979/513848308727226924#"><span>Genea-Musings</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">:</span></i></span></p><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">it's </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"><b><span>Saturday Night</span></b></span><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;"><span> </span><span>- </span></span></span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">time for more </span><span style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;"><b><span><span style="font-size: large;">Genealogy Fun!!!</span></span></b></span></span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5621956686414889979/513848308727226924#" style="color: #6699cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUDAWGYivkDsxHOlHDOq99Y1nimRUKQrQqfJgZTnp5Tc_-swGSm0JNjmwaoOul1L5YT7r2_xgl_edi6gy0xDNC65ZeZQraDsFP1jNxzz3zQXeXe6xVF06LMfAsLm-FGjnMLWt0JR59uNw/s400/Tweety+Bird+Yippee.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;"></span></span></div></div><div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;">Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:</span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">(1)</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span><span style="color: red;"> What genealogy search/research did you do last week? Did you have a research goal or plan? Tell us about one or more search/research session(s).</span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">(2) </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">Tell us all about it in </span></span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;">your own blog post, in a comment to this post, in a post on Facebook, or on Twitter. </span></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Here's mine:</span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: verdana;"><i>First of all, let me say how happy I am that Randy came through his bypass operation splendidly and is back home, recuperating. And writing blog posts!</i></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">As far as my research, as always, I have been all over the place. I have dabbled in several different genealogy plans.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b style="font-size: 14.85px;">My usual habit is to pick a line, either randomly or being lured by an obituary, and trace that line on Find A Grave and then Ancestry using their hints. For over a month, I have been tracing the Ozmun/Osman/Osmun line in this way. It seems that every line has many, many children. So I go down many rabbit holes and must fight my way back. My 8th great-grandparents were John Osman and Mary Wines, born in about the 1630s-1640s. I have been working through their </b><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>descendants</b></span><b style="font-size: 14.85px;"> on Find A Grave, and when I get bored with that, I switch over to Ancestry, search for those I have found, and use the hints feature to add to my research.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b style="font-size: 14.85px;">The hints feature at Ancestry.com is great, BUT you have to stay </b><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>vigilant</b></span><b style="font-size: 14.85px;"> and make sure the hint they provide is actually for the person you are working on. I have found that there is no name that is not a duplicate. There are many Liz or Elizabeth Tapleys out there. Even with a not-so-common name like Ozmun, there are many Isaacs or Marys or Abrahams in that line. So each and every hint provided by Ancestry must be looked at and deemed whether it is actually for your person. Even if it is, you must examine each piece of information to decide whether it is accurate or not. For instance, your person's birthdate is January 16, but a social security record says it is January 23. Well, I know that Social Security records are notoriously incorrect. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b style="font-size: 14.85px;">Doing this research has added many people and information to my database. However, it is time-</b><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>consuming</b></span><b style="font-size: 14.85px;"> and seems to be taking FOREVER. So I've been a little more bored with it as time goes on. However, I am going to stick it out, because once I finish this Ozmun line, I am going to start working on Ranneys. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>Another way I am drawn into using Ancestry.com hints is when they send me an email about hints from the 1950 census or what is new in their record collections (These emails also come with hints.). So I will follow those hints, which are about different family lines, and that helps ease my boredom. This happened today, and I found out some interesting things.</b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>My grandmother, Ethel Ranney Tapley (1913-1973) was married to Avery Hazel Plumlee (1911-1997). He was her first husband. They had one son together, my uncle, Robert Avery "Bob" Plumlee (1937-1999). Grandma and Hazel divorced, and he married 4 more times in his lifetime. In my grandmother's diary from the 1930's, she talks about Hazel a lot, since they were dating and married during this time. She also talked often about his parents, his brother, Earl, and sister, Delma. Earl was married to Verda and they had a little girl named Dorothy, who my grandmother seemed quite fond of. Earl was killed in a car accident in 1933, when little Dorothy was only 3 years old. </b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>Today, in one of my Ancestry emails, I received a hint about Hazel. When I followed it, I found that someone from the Plumlee line had been posting new and interesting information. Now I don't normally keep up with in-laws in my family tree. I add the spouse, but I don't add their parents or other spouses, or any children from other spouses UNLESS it is someone(s) interesting to me. For instance, the Plumlees. I guess it's because my grandmother knew them, was close with them, and wrote so much about them. So I was interested in this hint even though it is not a direct line for me. </b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b style="font-size: 14.85px;">In the hints, I found a picture of Hazel from his later years. Even more </b><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>interestingly</b></span><b style="font-size: 14.85px;">, I found that Earl and Verda actually had a second child, Donald, that I don't remember my grandmother mentioning at all. He would have been about 2 when Earl died. Then I discovered that Verda remarried, moved to Nevada, began going by her middle name, Viola, or "Vi", and her new husband adopted Dorothy and Donald. So without these hints, I never would have known that Dorothy and Donald Plumlee were Dorothy and Donald Ferris. I was able to submit edits on Donald's Find A Grave memorial to show who his biological father was and explain his adoption by his stepfather. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b style="font-size: 14.85px;">Tomorrow I will get back to work on those Ozmuns...</b></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; margin: 0px;"><br /></div></span></div>Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15061165008186408924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621956686414889979.post-21572125374719386682022-05-21T22:41:00.001-04:002022-05-21T22:41:46.503-04:00Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - How Many Find a Grave Entries?<p> <i style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">From Randy (<b>a </b></span><b>cousin discovery!!</b><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">) over at </span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5621956686414889979/513848308727226924#"><span>Genea-Musings</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">:</span></i></span></p><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">it's </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"><b><span>Saturday Night</span></b></span><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;"><span> </span><span>- </span></span></span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">time for more </span><span style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;"><b><span><span style="font-size: large;">Genealogy Fun!!!</span></span></b></span></span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5621956686414889979/513848308727226924#" style="color: #6699cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUDAWGYivkDsxHOlHDOq99Y1nimRUKQrQqfJgZTnp5Tc_-swGSm0JNjmwaoOul1L5YT7r2_xgl_edi6gy0xDNC65ZeZQraDsFP1jNxzz3zQXeXe6xVF06LMfAsLm-FGjnMLWt0JR59uNw/s400/Tweety+Bird+Yippee.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;"></span></span></div></div><div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;">Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:</span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">(1)</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span><span style="color: red;"> How many entries are there on <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/" target="_blank">Find a Grave</a> for your exact current surname and the birth surnames of your grandparents? What about your spouse's grandparents' birth surnames?</span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">(2) </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">Tell us all about it in </span></span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;">your own blog post, in a comment to this post, in a post on Facebook, or on Twitter. </span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Here's mine:</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;">I used the Memorial search feature on Find a Grave. There I entered only the surname I was looking for in the search parameters and clicked "Search."</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Here is what I discovered:</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Tapley: 3,491</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Drake: 65,255</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Ranney: 3,597</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Page: 99,539</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Harrell: 32,932</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Schwalls: 54</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Carter: 284,185</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Since I do not have a spouse, I went back to my great-grandparents' original surnames. </b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><br /></div></span></div>Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15061165008186408924noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621956686414889979.post-21665513215870131582022-05-14T16:27:00.000-04:002022-05-14T16:27:00.234-04:00Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - How Many Surnames in Your Family Tree Database?<p> <i style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">From Randy (<b>a </b></span><b>cousin discovery!!</b><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">) over at </span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5621956686414889979/513848308727226924#"><span>Genea-Musings</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">:</span></i></span></p><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">it's </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"><b><span>Saturday Night</span></b></span><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;"><span> </span><span>- </span></span></span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">time for more </span><span style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;"><b><span><span style="font-size: large;">Genealogy Fun!!!</span></span></b></span></span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5621956686414889979/513848308727226924#" style="color: #6699cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUDAWGYivkDsxHOlHDOq99Y1nimRUKQrQqfJgZTnp5Tc_-swGSm0JNjmwaoOul1L5YT7r2_xgl_edi6gy0xDNC65ZeZQraDsFP1jNxzz3zQXeXe6xVF06LMfAsLm-FGjnMLWt0JR59uNw/s400/Tweety+Bird+Yippee.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;"></span></span></div></div><div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;">Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:</span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">(1)</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span><span style="color: red;"> Go into your Genealogy Management Program (GMP; either software on your computer or an online family tree), and figure out how to count how many surnames you have in your family tree or database.</span></span></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">(2) Tell us which GMP you are using and how you did this task.</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">(3) Tell us how many surnames are in your database and, if possible, which Surname has the most entries. If this excites you, tell us which surnames are in the top 5! or 10!! Or 20!!!</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">(4) Tell us all about it in </span></span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;">your own blog post, in a comment to this post, in a post on Facebook, or on Twitter. </span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Here's mine:</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;">I use Family Tree Maker 19 (FTM19) as my GMP. In FTM19, go to "Publish,", then "Person Reports," and then choose "Surname Report." I then tweaked the Settings to "All Individuals," "Sort by Surname Count," and "Show Divider Between Surnames."</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;">I have 75 pages of surnames, listed from the most number of instances down to </span></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;">the least number of instances (1). I did a count of how many surnames on a page (44), multiplied that by 74 pages, and then added the 20 entries on the last page (page 75) and got a total of 3,276 surnames in my family tree.</span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;">This is the first page of my report:</span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3MDMMzNmLLz2-WFAMyjOij3_BbFR2ppHXUSUEsxxR_bG-uSNt0wd_TyIfu9kMI9LQppUGW7UICwxOuOVj7pDOZVJBVN7AoCYpvq_ToipYzWhbcoj-7c9NjliQlY7QFebeEuGOoU88RMXt93EVuZ8xP2w4pa82auxhOSbcZjy5ojuMZsNc5lFQJRn0/s1058/Surname%20Report%2005-14-2022.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1058" data-original-width="818" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3MDMMzNmLLz2-WFAMyjOij3_BbFR2ppHXUSUEsxxR_bG-uSNt0wd_TyIfu9kMI9LQppUGW7UICwxOuOVj7pDOZVJBVN7AoCYpvq_ToipYzWhbcoj-7c9NjliQlY7QFebeEuGOoU88RMXt93EVuZ8xP2w4pa82auxhOSbcZjy5ojuMZsNc5lFQJRn0/w494-h640/Surname%20Report%2005-14-2022.jpg" width="494" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Surname Report 05-14-2022</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;">The top 20 are, with birth date ranges:</span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;">TAPLEY - 9<span>27 from 1691-2010</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span>MNU (Maiden Name Unknown) - 672 from 1531-1984<span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span>OZMUN - 300 from 1764-1973</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span>CLAXTON - 299 from 1764-1997</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span>DRAKE - 291 from 1647-2001</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span>PRICE - 272 from 1680-1967</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span>BUSH - 264 from 1589-1971</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span>POWELL - 257 from 1750-1980</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span>SMITH - 249 from 1648-1984</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span>RANNEY - 232 from 1661-1973</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span>HUBBARD - 212 from 1601-1925</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span>WILLIAMS - 145 from 1777-1992</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span>DAVIS - 126 from 1760-1965</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span>GOODWIN - 125 from 1776-1961</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>DURDEN - 123 from 1775-1960</b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>JOHNSON - 123 from 1681-1974</b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>WILSON - 116 from 1847-1981</b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>BARWICK - 113 from 1731-1957</b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>WHEELER - 108 from 1807-2017</b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>BEASLEY - 97 from 1788-1983</b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>I found surprises in my list. First of all I would have thought that my number of Tapleys would have been higher. I also did not realize how high the numbers are for Smith, Johnson, Davis, and Williams. I had to laugh that Powell was in the top 10 - all of the them married into my family. I have none in my direct line. However, my family intertwines with the Powells over and over again to the point that a fellow Powell researcher I know and I call each other cousins anyway. I was surprised (and disappointed) that the number of Odoms, Goths, or Schwalls were not higher. But then I have had a harder time researching those surnames, so it shouldn't be a surprise. </b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>I am looking forward to see how this changes over the next few years since I am about to dive into the Ranney family records again.</b></span></span></div><div><br /></div></span></div>Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15061165008186408924noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621956686414889979.post-71621705140035881122022-05-01T12:22:00.002-04:002022-05-01T12:22:42.014-04:00Saturday Night Genealogy Fun (on a Sunday afternoon!) - What Keeps You From Doing Genealogy?<p> <i style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">From Randy (<b>a </b></span><b>cousin discovery!!</b><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">) over at </span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5621956686414889979/513848308727226924#"><span>Genea-Musings</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">:</span></i></span></p><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">it's </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"><b><span>Saturday Night</span></b></span><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;"><span> </span><span>- </span></span></span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">time for more </span><span style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;"><b><span><span style="font-size: large;">Genealogy Fun!!!</span></span></b></span></span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5621956686414889979/513848308727226924#" style="color: #6699cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUDAWGYivkDsxHOlHDOq99Y1nimRUKQrQqfJgZTnp5Tc_-swGSm0JNjmwaoOul1L5YT7r2_xgl_edi6gy0xDNC65ZeZQraDsFP1jNxzz3zQXeXe6xVF06LMfAsLm-FGjnMLWt0JR59uNw/s400/Tweety+Bird+Yippee.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;"></span></span></div></div><div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;">Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:</span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">(1)</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span><span style="color: red;"> What keeps you from doing genealogy? What real life activity/ies do you have to do, or like to do, that takes time away from genealogy research?</span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">(2) </span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">Tell us all about it in </span></span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;">your own blog post, in a comment to this post, in a post on Facebook, or on Twitter. </span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Here's mine:</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;">And the #1 answer is... WORK. A JOB. EMPLOYMENT OUTSIDE MY HOUSE. This takes me away from home for 10 hours a day. That's a huge junk out of my genealogy time. I can't seem to find a way around this. Without the job, the cats and I don't eat. </span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;">#2 is the exhaustion I experience every evening from the #1 answer above. I fall asleep on the couch almost every day after work. Dealing with the public - just people in general - wears me out. When I try to sit down at my computer and do some genealogy research, I am nodding off every couple of minutes. This seriously cuts into my genealogy time.</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;">#3 is the cats. Feeding them. Cleaning up after them. Shopping for them. Loving on them. All of this takes a lot of time. However, I wouldn't trade this one for anything in the world - not even genealogy! </span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;">#4 is chores. Grocery shopping. Cooking and cleaning up afterwards. Scooping litter boxes. Taking out the trash and/or recycling. Laundry. Changing sheets. Mopping, vacuuming, cleaning toilets, etc. It goes on and on and on. And about the time you finish a chore, it's time to do it again. This really cuts into my genealogy time... though I do sneak in some genealogy with lots and lots of "breaks" during cleaning on the weekends. </span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>And #5 is SLEEP. Along with #2 above, I do have to sleep at night in order to go to the job the next morning. However, I put it off as long as I can. After that nap on the couch every evening, I am raring to go, and I am doing genealogy research as fast and furiously as I can. I don't make it to bed until midnight a lot of nights. Sometimes even later. The I have to drag out of bed at 6am the next day and do it all over again. </b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Honorable mentions: Eating. Watching true crime TV. Facebook. Stupid games on my phone. Watching even stupider videos on my phone. All time wasters when I could be doing genealogy!</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>(The reason this Saturday night fun blog post wasn't done until Sunday was actually doing genealogy research and needing sleep!) </b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><br /></b></span></div></span></div>Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15061165008186408924noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621956686414889979.post-76294689434309898272022-04-14T18:30:00.001-04:002022-04-14T18:30:57.324-04:00Skiing, Senator Bob Dole, The Von Trapp Brothers, the 10th Mountain Division... and my Cousin<p> <span style="font-family: arial;">Private First Class (PFC) Lyle M. Ozmun (1917-1944) (my 4th cousin, 1x removed) was inducted into the U.S. Army on February 23, 1944. He received training at Camp Roberts, California and Camp Swift, Texas before going overseas in December 1944. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Lyle grew up in Winona, Winona County, Minnesota. Now when I think of Minnesota, I think of cold almost year around with lots and lots of snow. However, it turns out that Winona is located on the banks of the Mississippi River in what is called the bluff country. Theirs is the warmest climate of any in Minnesota. Temperatures are generally very mild by Minnesota standards year around; the January average is 17.6 degrees (-8 C) while that of July is 75.8 degrees (24.33 C). Winona has a humid continental climate with hot, humid summers and cold, snowy winters. </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2qkluwezY5oYXOIydjgxPcWUHcYQ-GQW8woOfFkmXQ078Ixw9P2KgL1JILq04007uYU8qsc_gTfc_1fSCWqMDtiTM3rOiX5XvydLxwK3iu-FyeftC3_uxu4Xjn3QGi9KJifpDWZZnBVaMOXb4adTrpeJbkqwq3mh6wKKaYq1em8bUwtzCtykRGcZL/s331/Location%20of%20Winona,%20MN.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="215" data-original-width="331" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2qkluwezY5oYXOIydjgxPcWUHcYQ-GQW8woOfFkmXQ078Ixw9P2KgL1JILq04007uYU8qsc_gTfc_1fSCWqMDtiTM3rOiX5XvydLxwK3iu-FyeftC3_uxu4Xjn3QGi9KJifpDWZZnBVaMOXb4adTrpeJbkqwq3mh6wKKaYq1em8bUwtzCtykRGcZL/w400-h260/Location%20of%20Winona,%20MN.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Location of Winona County, Minnesota</span><br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;">With an average snowfall of only 37.6 inches, it does not sound like it's the skiing capital of the world. So I wonder if Lyle knew how to ski before he joined the Army. I think he may have. Why is that important, you may be asking. Hold on and keep reading.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Meanwhile, even before the United States entered the war in Europe, the government created the Mountain Winter Warfare Board to design and test winter equipment and transportation. The National Ski Patrol had a unique relationship with the military by which they recruited experts in skiing and mountaineering for the U.S. Army. In November 1941, the War Department established the 1st Battalion of 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment as a mountain battalion. Their first home was Fort Lewis, Washington with training at nearby Mount Rainier. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">The Army then created the Mountain Training Center (MTC) at Camp Carson, Colorado, but a national search for a suitable location for winter/mountain training led to the development of a site in the Colorado Rocky Mountains close to Leadville that became Camp Hale. This became the home post of the MTC in November 1942. The 10th Mountain Division became the alpine combat arm of the U.S. military. Eighteen units comprised the 10th Mountain Division, but this post is going to concentrate on the 85th, 86th, and 87th Mountain Infantry Regiments. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">The 10th Mountain Division trained at Camp Hale, Colorado, where volunteers learned rock climbing, endurance through long distance marches and cross country ski trips, down hill skiing, winter/mountain survival techniques, and combat throughout the winter of 1943-1944. In June 1944, the Division transferred to Camp Swift, Texas, for additional training until the division was deployed to Italy in December 1944 - January 1945. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Remember that Lyle Ozmun received training at Camp Swift? Well, this is where the two stories come together. Somehow Lyle ended up in the 10th Mountain Division while at Camp Swift. He became an infantry machine gunner with M Company of the 85th Infantry Regiment. (This is why I believe Lyle knew how to ski, specifically cross-country ski, because he became a part of the 10th Mountain Division without going to Camp Hale and training for winter/mountain combat.) He shipped out with the 10th, and the Division became active in the mountains of Italy on January 5, 1945. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">The saga of the 10th Mountain Division is unique in the history of the U.S. Army, and its arrival in the Italian Theater was a noteworthy event. A brand new division of infantry was a rare sight among the battle-weary soldiers already there, and these fresh troops were already considered elite before they fired their first shots. This was not because they had battlefield exploits under their belts. The 10th was specifically outfitted and trained for winter warfare. These were soldiers whose basic equipment included skis, and each man had been required to present written recommendations for inclusion in the unit. (I wonder who wrote Lyle's recommendation?) The ranks of the 10th Mountain included many of the finest skiers and winter sports enthusiasts in the U.S. Ski instructors and competitors from across the country volunteered. Malcolm Douglass, who had driven a dog team during Admiral Richard Byrd's expedition to the South Pole in 1940, came forward, as did Norwegian-born Torger Tokle, holder of the world ski jumping record. Werner and Ruppert von Trapp (yes, from the famous family featured in the musical, "The Sound of Music") both served in the 10th Mountain Division after fleeing from Austria and eventually joining the U.S. Army.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUyrHm-BD4X4ZXdXf8LWau-64Ha--37_dNYANAXpRVKZQ_hdRPMTkfBnP1n3y4VK_u2x-t4p2oxGs8ZApXLZIrQb8XxE4-P3wYLG1jFdsMp_W1fGgv3VZ-Sm0BYTqOm2-opHVd_5j-M6vELGmdKotoZSqxukNaS3On_dWIZoYjiBMqxgr5eSWJq1zh/s1282/Uniform%20of%20the%2010th%20Mountain%20Division.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="827" data-original-width="1282" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUyrHm-BD4X4ZXdXf8LWau-64Ha--37_dNYANAXpRVKZQ_hdRPMTkfBnP1n3y4VK_u2x-t4p2oxGs8ZApXLZIrQb8XxE4-P3wYLG1jFdsMp_W1fGgv3VZ-Sm0BYTqOm2-opHVd_5j-M6vELGmdKotoZSqxukNaS3On_dWIZoYjiBMqxgr5eSWJq1zh/w400-h258/Uniform%20of%20the%2010th%20Mountain%20Division.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Uniform of the 10th Mountain Division </span><br /><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">courtesy of the National Association of the 10th Mountain Division</span></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;">The majority of the 10th personnel were college educated and members of families that were at least affluent, often wealthy, and sometimes politically connected. So of course, the veterans of other units resented the ski boys. The 10th had stood on the sidelines of the war for months as other commanders declined to employ them. In the snow and ice of Northern Italy, however, troops trained in mountain warfare might be used to an advantage. Still many wondered whether these soldiers could fight. They did not have to wait long for an answer. </span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">U.S. and Brazilian soldiers had been unsuccessful in breaking German lines established in the northern Italian Alps. From Naples, the 10th Mountain set sights on routing the Germans from Mount Belvedere, which provided the key to advancement into the Po Valley. Securing Mount Belvedere depended on routing German artillery entrenched on Riva Ridge, a three-and-a-half mile ridge connecting a series of mountains. Warm weather made the specially designed winter camouflage clothing and equipment useless and the planned assault on Riva Ridge required climbing rather than skiing. On the night of February 18, 1945, companies of the 86th Regiment scaled Riva Ridge surprising the Germans. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">A captured German officer commented, "We didn't realize that you had really big mountains in the United States, and we didn't believe your troops could climb anything that awkward." </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">The capture of Riva Ridge enabled the 85th and 87th Regiments to move on to Mount Belvedere and the adjacent peaks Mounts Gorgolesco and della Torraccia. By April 20th, the 10th Mountain Division entered the Po Valley, and after heavy fighting, the German Army in Italy surrendered on May 2, 1945. In the campaign in Italy, the 10th took heavy losses with 4,888 casualties including 978 killed in action. In capturing the peaks alone, the 10th suffered over 900 casualties. These included Lyle and... Bob Dole! </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgAkhBIOwKKC_p0MvOvWkcKGHQw6NGBN-5p-EWrR6LpeSVogUdKRG9Vj0IoTRf0AX4SejwfTyxjDadZpNefWEKuBwTWfE1rGIEnXqBz21VcaWR_LqYQnLezdgIQJmJp0VnOXaGXR00WN_YODpnJlslvhpzjPEQ1E6cnXwZew-_MOaK-DJulTHmxwsbb" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="515" data-original-width="916" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgAkhBIOwKKC_p0MvOvWkcKGHQw6NGBN-5p-EWrR6LpeSVogUdKRG9Vj0IoTRf0AX4SejwfTyxjDadZpNefWEKuBwTWfE1rGIEnXqBz21VcaWR_LqYQnLezdgIQJmJp0VnOXaGXR00WN_YODpnJlslvhpzjPEQ1E6cnXwZew-_MOaK-DJulTHmxwsbb=w400-h225" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Bob Dole in his officer's uniform circa 1944. </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />It turns out that Lt. Robert "Bob" Dole was a rifle platoon leader in Company I of the 85th Infantry Regiment! Dole wrote later "I thought it was mighty odd that a kid from Kansas who had seen a mountain up close only once in his life would be assigned to lead a platoon of mountain troops. We Kansans didn't ski much."</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">During what was called the Spring Offensive (April 14-16, 1945), the 85th Regiment was selected as one of two regiments to spearhead the attack. The mission of the 85th was to attack due north and seize Hills 913, 909, and 860 (near the small town of Castel d'Aiano). </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8vXEFi9xI4qXAojqgKMbaJKCodf33HQWZdtpw1zH5gdLobzCLs0xbzLpR2HqTXk93x6_w8D7VZ4yBwhv3qzRUQ5H7lg5zxf2Evk6KASvnkg5TudHgmGa7cBoch2rAW01bS1Ty3Eb263KZEuBYorUpQqtItDeROzbjvesuARwHGCzxw-TtZLbuINGF/s1486/1945%20Spring%20Offensive,%2010th%20Mtn%20Div,%20Italy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1486" data-original-width="1177" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8vXEFi9xI4qXAojqgKMbaJKCodf33HQWZdtpw1zH5gdLobzCLs0xbzLpR2HqTXk93x6_w8D7VZ4yBwhv3qzRUQ5H7lg5zxf2Evk6KASvnkg5TudHgmGa7cBoch2rAW01bS1Ty3Eb263KZEuBYorUpQqtItDeROzbjvesuARwHGCzxw-TtZLbuINGF/w506-h640/1945%20Spring%20Offensive,%2010th%20Mtn%20Div,%20Italy.jpg" width="506" /></a></div><br /> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">On the morning of April 14, the assault began. First, bombers pummeled the German bunkers. Then, Dole and his men were instructed to move across the valley and take control of Hill 913. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">It was slow going. They mostly crawled through the valley, between hedgerows and stone walls, watching for land mines and under heavy machine gun fire. His men were being picked off one by one. By the end of the day, 98 U.S. soldiers would die on Hill 913. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Dole searched for his radio operator to call for reinforcements. The man was slumped over in his own blood, radio in hand. Dole crawled over to him to pull him to a shell hole.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">And that's when it happened.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Dole said he felt a sting as something hot and powerful crashed into his upper back behind his right shoulder. It could have been a mortar round, an exploding shell, or machine gun fire. Whatever it was, it tore through his shoulder and spine instantly paralyzing him from the neck down. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Due to the heavy fighting, it was more than six hours later before he was evacuated. Lt. Dole spent 40 months recovering in hospitals. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">On April 15, the battle continued. Lyle's Company M was using their heavy weapons to support the attack from Hill 913. Again, progress was slow, as the Germans fought fanatically to hold their ground, but the Allies were ultimately successful. And even though the capture of Hills 913 and 909 was possible only by a heavy sacrifice of blood and American lives, it was this effort that paved the way for the advance to the Po Valley. After the 85th had seized the hills, the 86th and 87th were able to push rapidly to the northeast across Mt. Pigna, Rocca di Roffeno and beyond. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">So by the third day, April 16, strategy became the withdrawal to defensive positions. Because of the 87th Mountain Infantry's rapid advance, it was decided to abandon any further attack through the mountains, and follow the 87th to defend their flank. When the 85th followed to the northeast, Castel d'Aiano and Hills 913 and 909 would be taken over by the British Expeditionary Forces. The plan was executed in a series of moves. However, the troops were heavily shelled by the enemy along the way. Somewhere and some time in the midst of all the movement on April 16th, Lyle was killed in action on Hill 913. I am sure his family and his hometown were devastated. He received a Bronze Star and Purple Heart for his sacrifice. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd0zHS-44dxeeDjTfoqWCDvqDJ8AsqvwboEYbpVdcHwP1zZvcIn_NBIuJBvJajf7CYWZeDs-GuhDisuPK0w78dOud7Iqu-HxJ6WJQYlZFlqFECC-9cgXKXpvmROK4TfEv58MAqMTZ3upGtXTK0vgYG92TyGgcP_Lpf6V6l8lawO4TNmi2p1__z26uG/s881/OZMUN,%20Lyle%20M%201917-1945%20--%201945%20Newspaper%20article%20re%20killed%20in%20action%20&%20obituary.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="881" data-original-width="250" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd0zHS-44dxeeDjTfoqWCDvqDJ8AsqvwboEYbpVdcHwP1zZvcIn_NBIuJBvJajf7CYWZeDs-GuhDisuPK0w78dOud7Iqu-HxJ6WJQYlZFlqFECC-9cgXKXpvmROK4TfEv58MAqMTZ3upGtXTK0vgYG92TyGgcP_Lpf6V6l8lawO4TNmi2p1__z26uG/w182-h640/OZMUN,%20Lyle%20M%201917-1945%20--%201945%20Newspaper%20article%20re%20killed%20in%20action%20&%20obituary.jpeg" width="182" /></a></div><br /> Lyle was buried in the Florence American Cemetery and Memorial in Italy. The cemetery covers 70 acres, set in wooded hills. There are 4,392 of our military dead laid to rest there. The headstones are arrayed in symmetrical curved rows upon the hillside. They represent 39% of the U.S. Fifth Army burials originally made between Rome and the Alps. Most died in the fighting that occurred after the capture of Rome in June 1944, however, included among them are casualties of the heavy fighting in the Apennines Mountains of northern Italy. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Final note... The 10th Mountain Division helped popularize skiing in the U.S. After the war, returning ski soldier veterans from the 10th were largely responsible for introducing skiing as a recreational sport, especially in Colorado. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghsyvkK6M2_5lKffRiefHfXyhvF7FlycNffVxMUioDyrKUQlaNyoLlePTum4D0IspiR2m_z8n6R3AQNviR9vUkRChHlxnqMJS867dNvLFjndty0frXtiNlNTIgNl_ql8aO8mbnXj7wZxzPLdrtGXMFtOHZq7ctjVrrqsnARC5V2lRagkGPKLLmeAk6/s1600/10th%20Mountain%20Division%20Insignia%201945.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghsyvkK6M2_5lKffRiefHfXyhvF7FlycNffVxMUioDyrKUQlaNyoLlePTum4D0IspiR2m_z8n6R3AQNviR9vUkRChHlxnqMJS867dNvLFjndty0frXtiNlNTIgNl_ql8aO8mbnXj7wZxzPLdrtGXMFtOHZq7ctjVrrqsnARC5V2lRagkGPKLLmeAk6/w300-h400/10th%20Mountain%20Division%20Insignia%201945.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Sources:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; text-align: center;">Brockell, Gillian. "Bob Dole wanted to be a doctor. One of WWII's last battles changed everything for him." <i>The Washington Post, </i>December 5, 2021, available at <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/12/05/bob-dole-world-war-ii-hero/" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/12/05/bob-dole-world-war-ii-hero/</a>. Accessed April 12, 2022.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; text-align: center;">Case, Mike, "Skiing, Sen. Bob Dole and the Von Trapp Brothers: 10 Facts About the 10th Mountain Division," USO website, originally posted in 2019, updated July 9, 2021. Available at </span><a href="https://www.uso.org/stories/2396-skiing-sen-bob-dole-and-the-von-trapp-brothers-10-facts-about-the-10th-mountain-division#" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">https://www.uso.org/stories/2396-skiing-sen-bob-dole-and-the-von-trapp-brothers-10-facts-about-the-10th-mountain-division#</a><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; text-align: center;">. Accessed April 12, 2022.</span></span></div></div><div><div><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; text-align: center;">Decedent Search. Lyle M. Ozmun. American Battle Monuments Commission. Available at <a href="https://www.abmc.gov/decedent-search/ozmun%3Dlyle" target="_blank">https://www.abmc.gov/decedent-search/ozmun%3Dlyle</a>.</span><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; text-align: center;"> Accessed April 11, 2022. </span></span></div></div><div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: center;"><br /></em></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: center;">Find a Grave</em><span face=""Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #eeeeee; text-align: center;">, database and images (</span><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56365831/lyle-m-ozmun" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56365831/lyle-m-ozmun</a><span face=""Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #eeeeee; text-align: center;"> : accessed </span><span face=""Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" id="dateHolder" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: center;">11 April 2022</span><span face=""Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #eeeeee; text-align: center;">), memorial page for PFC Lyle M Ozmun (9 Nov 1917–16 Apr 1945), Find a Grave Memorial ID </span><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56365831/lyle-m-ozmun" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;">56365831</a><span face=""Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #eeeeee; text-align: center;">, citing Florence American Cemetery and Memorial, Florence, Città Metropolitana di Firenze, Toscana, Italy ; Maintained by Coleman ✿ (contributor </span><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/user/profile/47076912" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;">47076912</a><span face=""Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #eeeeee; text-align: center;">).</span></span></div></div><div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span face=""Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #eeeeee; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span face=""Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #eeeeee; text-align: center;">Florence American Cemetery. American Battle Monuments Commission. Available at <a href="https://www.abmc.gov/Florence" target="_blank">https://www.abmc.gov/Florence</a>. Accessed April 12, 2022. </span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; text-align: center;">Haskew, Michael E., "Surging toward the Alps: Last Battles of the Italian Campaign," Warfare History Network website. Available at: </span><a href="https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2016/09/12/surging-toward-the-alps-last-battles-of-the-italian-campaign/" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2016/09/12/surging-toward-the-alps-last-battles-of-the-italian-campaign/</a><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; text-align: center;">. Accessed April 12, 2022.</span></span></div></div><div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">Metropolitan State University (MSU) of Denver, Denver Colorado, website page "Camp Hale." Available at </span><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"><span><a href="https://temp.msudenver.edu/camphale/10thmountaindivision/">https://temp.msudenver.edu/camphale/10thmountaindivision/</a>. Accessed April 11, 2022.</span></span></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"><span><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">Wiki</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">pedia contributors. Winona, Minnesota. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. April 11, 2022, 11:04 UTC. Available at: </span><a class="external free" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Winona,_Minnesota&oldid=1082107372" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: white; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: initial !important; background-repeat: initial !important; background-size: initial !important; background: none white; color: #0645ad; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Winona,_Minnesota&oldid=1082107372</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">. Accessed April 11, 2022.</span></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Woodruff, John B., Captain, 85th Mountain Infantry, Historical Records Officer, 1945, "History of the 85th Mountain Infantry Regiment, 4 January 1945 - 31 May 1945." Accessed April 11, 2022.</span></span></div></div>Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15061165008186408924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621956686414889979.post-39507515909961980402022-04-09T22:31:00.002-04:002022-04-09T22:31:52.851-04:00Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Four Things!<p> <i style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">From Randy (<b>a </b></span><b>cousin discovery!!</b><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">) over at </span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5621956686414889979/513848308727226924#"><span>Genea-Musings</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">:</span></i></span></p><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">it's </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"><b><span>Saturday Night</span></b></span><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;"><span> </span><span>- </span></span></span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">time for more </span><span style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;"><b><span><span style="font-size: large;">Genealogy Fun!!!</span></span></b></span></span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5621956686414889979/513848308727226924#" style="color: #6699cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUDAWGYivkDsxHOlHDOq99Y1nimRUKQrQqfJgZTnp5Tc_-swGSm0JNjmwaoOul1L5YT7r2_xgl_edi6gy0xDNC65ZeZQraDsFP1jNxzz3zQXeXe6xVF06LMfAsLm-FGjnMLWt0JR59uNw/s400/Tweety+Bird+Yippee.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;"></span></span></div></div><div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;">Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:</span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">(1)</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span><span style="color: red;"> Let's answer some family history related questions with four responses (Four Things!).</span></span></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">(2) </span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">Tell us all about it in </span></span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;">your own blog post, in a comment to this post, in a post on Facebook, or on Twitter. </span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Here's mine:</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><i><u>Four names I go by:</u></i></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><i><u><br /></u></i></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>(1) Liz</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>(2) Elizabeth</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>(3) Lizard</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>(4) Mama </b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><i><u>Four places I have lived:</u></i></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>(1) Swainsboro, Georgia</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>(2) Milledgeville, Georgia</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>(3) Covington, Georgia</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>(4) Durham, North Carolina</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><i><u><b style="font-size: 14.85px;">Four </b><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>ancestral</b></span><b style="font-size: 14.85px;"> places I have visited:</b></u></i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>(1) Johnson County, Georgia</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>(2) Jacksonville, Florida</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>(3) Pendleton, South Carolina</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>(4) Redlands, California</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><i><u>Four interesting places I have visited:</u></i></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><i><u><br /></u></i></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>(1) Williamsburg, Virginia</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>(2) Los Angeles, California</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>(3) Amsterdam, Netherlands</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>(4) Washington, D.C.</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><i><u>Four favorite/most interesting ancestors/family members:</u></i></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><i><u><br /></u></i></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>(1) Morgan Goodgame Swain (1805-1851)</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>(2) Stephen Hopkins (abt. 1581-1644)</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>(3) Gordon Wesley Tapley (1894-1959)</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>(4) Sarah Tapley (1775-bet.1850-1860)</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><i><u>Four favorite genealogy record collections:</u></i></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><i><u><br /></u></i></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>(1) Obituaries</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>(2) Historical newspapers</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>(3) Marriage records</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>(4) Military records, including pension applications</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><br /></b></span></div></span></div>Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15061165008186408924noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621956686414889979.post-10138165891312475132022-04-01T23:15:00.005-04:002022-04-01T23:23:17.724-04:00No April Fool's Joke Here - The 1950 U.S. Census was Released Today!<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> It's like a birthday and Christmas all rolled into one day for genealogists in the United States (or anyone in the world who had family in the U.S. at that time)! Census release day only comes along every 10 years so it is a BIG DEAL.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">There is a 72 year restriction on access to census records. So the latest available is now 1950. It can be accessed for free through a dedicated website at <a href="http://1950census.archives.gov" target="_blank">1950census.archives.gov</a>. This census was the 17th census of the United States. Taken every 10 years since 1790, the U.S. Census provides a snapshot of the nation's population. The questions on the census evolve each time to reflect the current social norms or changes in the world. For example on several of the first censuses taken, only the "head" of the household was listed, this most often being a man. Women and children were just numbers under age categories. I read that the 1950 census asked whether the household had a TV (though I have yet to find that question myself!!). </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Now most of my genealogy friends and acquaintances stayed up until midnight and later this morning to see the 1950 census first thing. I did not, for a couple of reasons. First of all, I needed to go to bed to be able to go to work this morning. And secondly, it is hard to search the census when it first comes out. It does not come out of the chute already indexed so you can search by name. Now this census is the first one that was digitized, and it is the first time that artificial intelligence/optical character recognition (AI/OCR) technology will be used. However, that is not perfect. Handwriting can be difficult to decipher, for both humans and machines. So you must locate the proper Enumeration District where your family member(s) lived in 1950. I was feeling a little left out and jealous of my friends, so I decided to do a little peek tonight. I really didn't think I would find much. I chose to do my searching on Ancestry.com, and it was not easy, let me tell you. The map was difficult to navigate, but I got lucky.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I decided to start with Jacksonville, Florida. I was pretty positive that my father was living there then. I know with certainly that my Uncle Russ Tapley was living in Jacksonville, and I remembered he lived on 3rd Avenue. Fortunately, I know my way around that part of Jacksonville pretty well, so I was able to pull up the map on Ancestry and find the area of town (Riverview) where 3rd Avenue was located. That map is tricky, but I figured out my uncle probably lived in Enumeration District 16-11. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Then I went to the actual images of the count. There were 37 pages for that Enumeration District. I scrolled through the first few pages, looked at the street names, and I knew I was close. On page 17, I found 3rd Avenue! I went to page 18, and there was my father with his first wife and their two children, my brother and sister! </span><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;">I had no idea they lived on the same street as Uncle Russ!</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB7xMY8hWLuyANa8rsFMzmR-hJrnbZ1JDrL_M1jxxiWWVmMhdM_25YnSWXAYxkNm1EPCGwcLOHv3Hik_LGjCvFT9_RjBZ8_LC2xYXUzq0DdhyU9pTylHH353Et6GxW9DeCQJZa6SADxT8bZd313Tyan-A5ySRxEZhbQW44LbS6kIOidRbsGMrxpLBC/s3719/TAPLEY,%20John%20Russell%201917-1967%20--%201950%20Census%20Jacksonville%20FL%20with%20wife%20and%20mother%20-%20headings.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1072" data-original-width="3719" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB7xMY8hWLuyANa8rsFMzmR-hJrnbZ1JDrL_M1jxxiWWVmMhdM_25YnSWXAYxkNm1EPCGwcLOHv3Hik_LGjCvFT9_RjBZ8_LC2xYXUzq0DdhyU9pTylHH353Et6GxW9DeCQJZa6SADxT8bZd313Tyan-A5ySRxEZhbQW44LbS6kIOidRbsGMrxpLBC/w640-h184/TAPLEY,%20John%20Russell%201917-1967%20--%201950%20Census%20Jacksonville%20FL%20with%20wife%20and%20mother%20-%20headings.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX0rvKjz0j2kjFJBjhw_YRha8uomnxSH8BhWAeekz0Vmbix5glsjjBY5cX9OVkFWmZY3pincsVGpqERNCAqmzgmo16_3EmepglAiwhmsrypdZqcYxQxCgZaPVffxcvMSWAmclZL43I0y_8yweIZAD3KKMztCbYzOu7W8lHz8CDt_A3p31KfR7VFCHO/s3322/TAPLEY,%20Gilbert%20Earl%201928-2008%20--%201950%20Census%20Jacksonville%20FL%20with%20family%20-%20cropped.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="255" data-original-width="3322" height="49" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX0rvKjz0j2kjFJBjhw_YRha8uomnxSH8BhWAeekz0Vmbix5glsjjBY5cX9OVkFWmZY3pincsVGpqERNCAqmzgmo16_3EmepglAiwhmsrypdZqcYxQxCgZaPVffxcvMSWAmclZL43I0y_8yweIZAD3KKMztCbYzOu7W8lHz8CDt_A3p31KfR7VFCHO/w640-h49/TAPLEY,%20Gilbert%20Earl%201928-2008%20--%201950%20Census%20Jacksonville%20FL%20with%20family%20-%20cropped.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">My father, Gilbert E Tapley, age 22, married, from Georgia and a carpenter, along with his wife, Margaret E. Tapley, age 22, from North Carolina who was a homemaker, and their children, Harry E. Tapley, age 3, and Patricia E. Tapley, newly born September 1949, both born in Florida. They lived at 2351 3rd Avenue. <br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">As you can see, my sister, Patricia (Pat) ended up on line #16, a sample line. Unfortunately, that didn't add any new and interesting information since she was only 6 months old!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVdGIDGbEd4apFsZ-a789q1NtI63CXUSEFejvuanePCiCNcK-PB_eMF8vOPBxslXwmFGMcClksBtYt_Jwe3-yjeDqNVD8Wfq3R_vhnMdGFl5NTIii7tZ3b9dFG5SMMHHYPmrAYr63O2Wcam1Z7na7P6RwYEWsFlId7PSu8bJiQaA_LayYjoyatxAAo/s1194/TAPLEY,%20Gilbert%20Earl%201928-2008,%20SKIPPER,%20Margaret%201927-1984,%20TAPLEY,%20Harry%20Earl%20Sr%20&%20Patricia%20Elaine%20--%201950,%20sepia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1194" data-original-width="788" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVdGIDGbEd4apFsZ-a789q1NtI63CXUSEFejvuanePCiCNcK-PB_eMF8vOPBxslXwmFGMcClksBtYt_Jwe3-yjeDqNVD8Wfq3R_vhnMdGFl5NTIii7tZ3b9dFG5SMMHHYPmrAYr63O2Wcam1Z7na7P6RwYEWsFlId7PSu8bJiQaA_LayYjoyatxAAo/w264-h400/TAPLEY,%20Gilbert%20Earl%201928-2008,%20SKIPPER,%20Margaret%201927-1984,%20TAPLEY,%20Harry%20Earl%20Sr%20&%20Patricia%20Elaine%20--%201950,%20sepia.jpg" width="264" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">This looks to be the family at about the right time frame.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4464" data-original-width="3735" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKU0N1cVo6xVMYOzz-j6Z0Z-iBCg2nTXe7Q9OrSRxs-WAelasHOejGc3HMI18-ceOjkG3zreZEGOXaW5qgbPULD_tcma-IlB81bBATKk-Sb7VPJQxzmtVVFdlpFdttgH55J-XqlfW4XEhmKQX6psdbEvZ_T1H9221Nz0bQx8EmYiF7AsDHmx0_-oag/w536-h640/TAPLEY,%20Gilbert%20Earl%201928-2008%20--%201950%20Census%20Jacksonville%20FL%20with%20family.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="536" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Full page image</span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Well, where was Uncle Russ then? I went back to page 17 and there he was! Along with his wife and his mother (my grandmother, Nealie Drake Tapley)!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtUkgXP-VKOH41b75lzxUSHv6rGhfPPC7LHQZaaLS8KXhepuewgjP2Z1ugmcEtPmcLnswKOVynxEC-3TiUFMbR9hjdOeFbtMQrtJva7h7TasuM1CZuG1jgJMq4wFN7MqPcs1gAyVtpWRDH6lTVFTtMyx22tmq4q7UAGSHN65lyTMbSpXioyOZ1LOo0/s3587/TAPLEY,%20John%20Russell%201917-1967%20--%201950%20Census%20Jacksonville%20FL%20with%20wife%20and%20mother,%20cropped.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="205" data-original-width="3587" height="36" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtUkgXP-VKOH41b75lzxUSHv6rGhfPPC7LHQZaaLS8KXhepuewgjP2Z1ugmcEtPmcLnswKOVynxEC-3TiUFMbR9hjdOeFbtMQrtJva7h7TasuM1CZuG1jgJMq4wFN7MqPcs1gAyVtpWRDH6lTVFTtMyx22tmq4q7UAGSHN65lyTMbSpXioyOZ1LOo0/w640-h36/TAPLEY,%20John%20Russell%201917-1967%20--%201950%20Census%20Jacksonville%20FL%20with%20wife%20and%20mother,%20cropped.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">My uncle, John R. Tapley, age 32, married, from Georgia, and a carpenter. His wife, Elizabeth E. Tapley, age 27, from Florida and a homemaker, and his mother, Nealie V. Tapley, age 55, from Georgia. They lived at 2344 3rd Avenue.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMNqM9M184mbYA_DTIxxm1dxtKhgQeLwiaLUgBUcDtDNzahUltNogGIm3rdIw5f19fsBKx4n7IdgFLD3SkXotzVuP5pp-LIL0oZVQlucEy3WIK8MauUcifhlMX9kPQ5QYAh0SlcIi7z9UgRrIQ97njBEUN2k1SbQLQYe7JV5pJhcTrNH7wZlpQKjgo/s910/TAPLEY,%20John%20Russell%201917-1967%20&%20TAYLOR,%20Elizabeth%20E%201921-2008%20--%20leather%20jacket.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="910" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMNqM9M184mbYA_DTIxxm1dxtKhgQeLwiaLUgBUcDtDNzahUltNogGIm3rdIw5f19fsBKx4n7IdgFLD3SkXotzVuP5pp-LIL0oZVQlucEy3WIK8MauUcifhlMX9kPQ5QYAh0SlcIi7z9UgRrIQ97njBEUN2k1SbQLQYe7JV5pJhcTrNH7wZlpQKjgo/w400-h238/TAPLEY,%20John%20Russell%201917-1967%20&%20TAYLOR,%20Elizabeth%20E%201921-2008%20--%20leather%20jacket.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">I don't know if this was 1950, but Uncle Russ and Aunt Elizabeth had a TV!<br /><br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div>I may try to find my mother on the census another day. She was living in California, and I am not familiar with the area. I will have to find the address where she was living, and really study some maps to find it and thus the Enumeration District! Otherwise, I will just wait for the indexing to be complete. It will still be new and exciting for me then. </div></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">At least I got in on the fun today!</span></div>Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15061165008186408924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621956686414889979.post-7077428443588786852022-03-26T23:35:00.002-04:002022-03-27T22:37:41.098-04:00Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Your Fearless Females' Education<p> <i style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">From Randy (<b>a </b></span><b>cousin discovery!!</b><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">) over at </span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5621956686414889979/513848308727226924#"><span>Genea-Musings</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">:</span></i></span></p><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">it's </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"><b><span>Saturday Night</span></b></span><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;"><span> </span><span>- </span></span></span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">time for more </span><span style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;"><b><span><span style="font-size: large;">Genealogy Fun!!!</span></span></b></span></span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5621956686414889979/513848308727226924#" style="color: #6699cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUDAWGYivkDsxHOlHDOq99Y1nimRUKQrQqfJgZTnp5Tc_-swGSm0JNjmwaoOul1L5YT7r2_xgl_edi6gy0xDNC65ZeZQraDsFP1jNxzz3zQXeXe6xVF06LMfAsLm-FGjnMLWt0JR59uNw/s400/Tweety+Bird+Yippee.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;"></span></span></div></div><div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;">Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:</span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">(1)</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span><span style="color: red;"> It's National Women's History Month, so I'm going to use <a href="https://www.theaccidentalgenealogist.com/2022/02/blog-post.html" target="_blank">today's prompt from Lisa Alzo on her The Accidental Genealogist Blog</a>. What education did your mother receive? Your grandmothers? Great-grandmother's? Note any advanced degrees or special achievements.</span></span></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">(2) </span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">Tell us all about it in </span></span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;">your own blog post, in a comment to this post, in a post on Facebook, or on Twitter. </span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Here's mine:</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;">(1) My mother, Linda Tapley (1942-) went to various schools in "The Valley" in California as a young child. Her father moved the family often, following work. She graduated from Redlands High School, Redlands, California in 1960. She graduated from San Bernardino Valley College in San Bernardino, California in 1962. Then the family moved back east to Tallahassee, Florida, and she attended Florida State University for a short while. </span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOeMIyrUGimB8FJyLXKyU7ti_trFvopHe0dsf_9twQ6zfPYkH2GgOXyl1vEcMTFYKNZUKrF7ib3rE8Ky3BxfG_k6d57ZodbF6w7NZM-mVawfFgju_1xz3fWk3Vg3aT2wSoKPvE0n8IpIEuQA1PmO8149NUIhncRTCI1Wcs_p6zBpQSW9Pd74rqUJ5Z/s1752/TAPLEY,%20Linda%20Irene%201942-%20--%20%20College%20graduation,%20Jun%201962.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1740" data-original-width="1752" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOeMIyrUGimB8FJyLXKyU7ti_trFvopHe0dsf_9twQ6zfPYkH2GgOXyl1vEcMTFYKNZUKrF7ib3rE8Ky3BxfG_k6d57ZodbF6w7NZM-mVawfFgju_1xz3fWk3Vg3aT2wSoKPvE0n8IpIEuQA1PmO8149NUIhncRTCI1Wcs_p6zBpQSW9Pd74rqUJ5Z/s320/TAPLEY,%20Linda%20Irene%201942-%20--%20%20College%20graduation,%20Jun%201962.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Linda Irene Tapley, 1962<br />Graduation from San Bernardino Valley College</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;">(2) My maternal grandmother, Ethel Irene Ranney Tapley (1913-1973), grew up in Duplain, Michigan so I assume she attended elementary school there. She was probably about 9 or 10 when the family moved to California so she would have continued her elementary schooling there. She graduated from Redlands High School in 1932. In her 1933 diary, she writes of attending school, but she never mentions what kind of school. <i>My mother let me know that Grandma went to business school.</i></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtadiiAKo7-eG27vsiHbv-w08JF63FBCkUlFTj6ZCWz40mtv06uXMcxL9wdloCUoNk-SkrhtUNa7fl44JkiITr2XyyTnc0enBUsMutdm9sacGOnbnGjJTvarKnIzOd-hWw92-vIzXe60FJPMokJUh-bS7Z9V7uz7yqjg53wAIvQ42_vFHvBtEwdpoj/s2674/TAPLEY,%20Ethel%20Irene%201913-1973%20--%201932%20HS%20Yearbook%20Photo%20(2)%20B&W.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2674" data-original-width="1776" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtadiiAKo7-eG27vsiHbv-w08JF63FBCkUlFTj6ZCWz40mtv06uXMcxL9wdloCUoNk-SkrhtUNa7fl44JkiITr2XyyTnc0enBUsMutdm9sacGOnbnGjJTvarKnIzOd-hWw92-vIzXe60FJPMokJUh-bS7Z9V7uz7yqjg53wAIvQ42_vFHvBtEwdpoj/s320/TAPLEY,%20Ethel%20Irene%201913-1973%20--%201932%20HS%20Yearbook%20Photo%20(2)%20B&W.jpg" width="213" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ethel Irene Ranney, 1932 <br />Redlands High School Senior Portrait</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;">(3) My paternal grandmother, Nealie Drake Tapley (1895-1970), grew up in the Adrian area of Emanuel County, Georgia. I assume she attended school there, but I have no information about her education. What I do know is that my grandmother was a dedicated organist who drove her horse and buggy probably 10 miles or more each way to play the organ at Powell's Chapel Church every Sunday. </span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;">(4) My great-grandmother, Bessie Alice Carter Ranney (1883-1960), grew up and attended school in Eagle Grove, Iowa. She graduated from Eagle Grove High School in 1901. She married five years later, and I do not know if she attended any college in between. <i>My mother </i> <i>shared that Bessie attended "normal school" after high school. This was higher education for girls at that time to provide them enough education to teach school before they married. </i></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNpe-IpFAwdFsDpStT8b2DEnuTY6GxkOhXo9Q8yebiWFVVreA-4-PbDBuQi2NYCSPg6495M3iIMczC5R4kXOjN0FbcttsLl_2Q9HK6Sy4S3WrrIm13vltmPjWfS_4OX7XTMu4OCMybNemrzfxy00rgXuWtTH31fx62bHRylzlrTN8pOhjGYiOymyw8/s1104/CARTER,%20Bessie%20Alice%201883-1960%20--%20Graduation%20Photo%201901.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1104" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNpe-IpFAwdFsDpStT8b2DEnuTY6GxkOhXo9Q8yebiWFVVreA-4-PbDBuQi2NYCSPg6495M3iIMczC5R4kXOjN0FbcttsLl_2Q9HK6Sy4S3WrrIm13vltmPjWfS_4OX7XTMu4OCMybNemrzfxy00rgXuWtTH31fx62bHRylzlrTN8pOhjGYiOymyw8/s320/CARTER,%20Bessie%20Alice%201883-1960%20--%20Graduation%20Photo%201901.jpg" width="232" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bessie Alice Carter, 1901<br />Eagle Grove (Iowa) Graduation Photo</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;">I do not know anything about the education or talents of my other great-grandmothers: Emma Vermell Harrell Drake (1867-1935) of Emanuel County, Georgia; Elizabeth Rebecca "Becky" Page Tapley (1844-1924) of Johnson County, Georgia; or Mattie Schwalls Tapley (1877-1912) of Johnson County, Georgia. I can only guess that some may have attended elementary school or high school, but none of them attended college. </span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-small;"><i>(I am sure I will be updating this post after my mother reads it and provides corrections and/or additions. ;)</i></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-small;"><i>(Told ya! ;)</i></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div></span></div>Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15061165008186408924noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621956686414889979.post-51027224788296406802022-03-19T23:22:00.003-04:002022-03-19T23:22:38.140-04:00Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - What is Your Favorite Record Type?<p> <i style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">From Randy (<b>a </b></span><b>cousin discovery!!</b><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">) over at </span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5621956686414889979/513848308727226924#"><span>Genea-Musings</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">:</span></i></span></p><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">it's </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"><b><span>Saturday Night</span></b></span><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;"><span> </span><span>- </span></span></span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">time for more </span><span style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;"><b><span><span style="font-size: large;">Genealogy Fun!!!</span></span></b></span></span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5621956686414889979/513848308727226924#" style="color: #6699cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUDAWGYivkDsxHOlHDOq99Y1nimRUKQrQqfJgZTnp5Tc_-swGSm0JNjmwaoOul1L5YT7r2_xgl_edi6gy0xDNC65ZeZQraDsFP1jNxzz3zQXeXe6xVF06LMfAsLm-FGjnMLWt0JR59uNw/s400/Tweety+Bird+Yippee.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;"></span></span></div></div><div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;">Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:</span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">(1)</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span><span style="color: red;"> What is your favorite record type or resource? Not a website, but a type of record - e.g., census, cemetery, land, etc. Why?</span></span></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">(2) </span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">Tell us all about it in </span></span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;">your own blog post, in a comment to this post, in a post on Facebook, or on Twitter. </span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Here's mine:</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;">My favorite record type is obituaries. While I realize obituaries are not primary sources, they are still valuable to me as part of my genealogy "toolbox." I have found the names of parents, siblings, children, and sometimes grandparents. I have found the deceased's date and/or place of birth or the date they got married, along with the name of their spouse(s). I have found occupations and what their hobbies were. Every once in awhile, I can find a cause of death. It's a goldmine of information, especially for someone from a branch of my family that I am not as familiar with. </span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #38761d;">I know that the information provided in an obituary comes from a family member or friend of the deceased. I am sure that many times, the obituary is a group effort made up of several family members and perhaps even funeral home staff. So there is bound to be some mistakes along the way. </span></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 700;">Just today, I found a mistake in my sister's obituary. I was listed as Sue Tapley of North Carolina. So I know it happens. However, </span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;">I have found that there are mistakes in all types of records. If it is information I did not have before, the facts I find in an obituary, even if not entirely correct, puts me on the path to finding the correct information! </span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;">My favorite type of obituary is a long obituary, full of information about the person's career, organizations they belonged to, and hobbies and interests they pursued. The perfect obituary includes the person's maiden name, their mother's maiden name, the full names of their children's spouses, and to which child each grandchild belongs to. </span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><b>I find a lot of obituaries on Find-a-Grave that have been transcribed or copied by members and added to a person's memorial page. If the person passed in the last few years, I do a Google search with "the person's name, year (if known), location, and [the word] obituary" in the search box. I can find some older obituaries by doing a search on Newspapers.com (for which I have a paid membership). I have also found obituaries on Ancestry.com where someone has uploaded them to a person's page. I have subscribed to obituary announcements from funeral homes in my hometown. Many years ago, I found an entire display of index cards with obituaries on them in my hometown's library. What a find! </b></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;">Obituaries have been invaluable to me in piecing together relationships, for example, for my Schwalls line. Finding the names of parents or siblings in an obituary was so helpful in putting together that part of my family tree, since the members of that family are so dang elusive!</span></div></span></div>Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15061165008186408924noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621956686414889979.post-3002593156823466662022-03-06T17:57:00.000-05:002022-03-06T17:57:55.040-05:0020,000 Strong<p> <span style="font-family: arial;">Today, I entered the 20,000th person into my family tree on Family Tree Maker! That is a lot of folks! While I am not related to every single one of those people, I am kin to the vast majority. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhO8Ed4YD878KNAgbZaY43ScCHHr9FHZoqsEpF7Fw8UDWwDLBBgli_FsQyeIuDHAbDV7rgtCXZtcaIaIEPJW2-ZAk1SMUKVu7Rlv92kFcyHoE8OMLdYUvHvBZi0F-FrCq6lpw_IiQ2QA48fjw25Yl4aoiB4mBIPmRdLsWc1jhxXCZrGLMxyi59kMk3p=s4000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhO8Ed4YD878KNAgbZaY43ScCHHr9FHZoqsEpF7Fw8UDWwDLBBgli_FsQyeIuDHAbDV7rgtCXZtcaIaIEPJW2-ZAk1SMUKVu7Rlv92kFcyHoE8OMLdYUvHvBZi0F-FrCq6lpw_IiQ2QA48fjw25Yl4aoiB4mBIPmRdLsWc1jhxXCZrGLMxyi59kMk3p=s320" width="240" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The 20,000th person turned out to be a 4th cousin, 2x removed on my Osmun/Osman/Ozmun line by the name of:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><i></i></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBTYSkQAbFd-qq_kjapgNeebPn4uMdDZgH7pANNJFHposkhlE4HpVPGyG6LW2fYkloCLNXT2O8a1iYJCh6CvZY5aa7jf4e0JVoZaWFV3zgBuLaHETRMcyRajrvL3wMk73RNDyKcKm-7QEM-mt-cEheFh0YZLPaK6Ht6pUswf-d078cPOFVoxjcrcx2=s200" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBTYSkQAbFd-qq_kjapgNeebPn4uMdDZgH7pANNJFHposkhlE4HpVPGyG6LW2fYkloCLNXT2O8a1iYJCh6CvZY5aa7jf4e0JVoZaWFV3zgBuLaHETRMcyRajrvL3wMk73RNDyKcKm-7QEM-mt-cEheFh0YZLPaK6Ht6pUswf-d078cPOFVoxjcrcx2=w320-h320" width="320" /></a></i></b></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Arvilla Mary Nelsey (1915-2014)</span></i></b>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Arvilla was the wife of James "Jim" Sheldon (1914-2000), the daughter of Tinmun Mills Nelsey (1890-1971) and Vera E Buzzard (1891-1981), the mother of three, grandmother of six, and great-grandmother of ten. Arvilla was born in Pontiac, Michigan and lived her entire life in the area. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhHeFIl0yrqqDqFdxOTISw9wDF3F7fC_bLf8eoc-EIbvi07AfAU0FuTeybI6N8vTLGgODKsNVva4Lz1uCAFUb_I-uAr1xtESiQq8qCx08A7AOWzxBTaZWYWhkOhCKa5HromzzmcCiep8S4pOcKtyaEcBNES3CsDPyP_pKDiLoAwM7wyQ9TXV4TX73Xd=s4000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhHeFIl0yrqqDqFdxOTISw9wDF3F7fC_bLf8eoc-EIbvi07AfAU0FuTeybI6N8vTLGgODKsNVva4Lz1uCAFUb_I-uAr1xtESiQq8qCx08A7AOWzxBTaZWYWhkOhCKa5HromzzmcCiep8S4pOcKtyaEcBNES3CsDPyP_pKDiLoAwM7wyQ9TXV4TX73Xd=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p>We are descended from Isaac H. Osman, who was a member of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. He was taken prisoner at the Battle of Fort Montgomery on October 6, 1777 and sent to the infamous Sugar House Prison in New York City, where he died of starvation in 1778. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">(Of course, I kept working after entering Arvilla, and I'm already up to 20,045!)</span></p><p><i style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Sources: </span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Find a Grave Memorial #116935289 for Arvilla Mary Nelsey Sheldon.</span></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Obituary of Arvilla Sheldon, 1915-2014, Sparks-Griffin Funeral Home, Lake Orion, Michigan, USA, sparksgriffin.com/obituary/4188841</span></i></span></p>Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15061165008186408924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621956686414889979.post-91716857033479478692022-03-05T22:57:00.000-05:002022-03-05T22:57:29.174-05:00Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - RootsTech 2022<p> <i style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">From Randy (<b>a </b></span><b>cousin discovery!!</b><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">) over at </span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5621956686414889979/513848308727226924#"><span>Genea-Musings</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">:</span></i></span></p><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">it's </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"><b><span>Saturday Night</span></b></span><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;"><span> </span><span>- </span></span></span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">time for more </span><span style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;"><b><span><span style="font-size: large;">Genealogy Fun!!!</span></span></b></span></span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5621956686414889979/513848308727226924#" style="color: #6699cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUDAWGYivkDsxHOlHDOq99Y1nimRUKQrQqfJgZTnp5Tc_-swGSm0JNjmwaoOul1L5YT7r2_xgl_edi6gy0xDNC65ZeZQraDsFP1jNxzz3zQXeXe6xVF06LMfAsLm-FGjnMLWt0JR59uNw/s400/Tweety+Bird+Yippee.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;"></span></span></div></div><div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;">Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:</span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">(1)</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span><span style="color: red;"> The RootsTech 2022 Virtual Conference was Thursday through Saturday (March 3rd-5th) this week. Did you register and attend classes? Did you watch the Keynote talks? Did you visit the virtual Expo Hall? What was your favorite experience?</span></span></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">(2) </span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">Tell us all about it in </span></span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;">your own blog post, in a comment to this post, in a post on Facebook, or on Twitter. </span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span>Here's mine:</span></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span><span><div style="color: black; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px;">I registered for RootsTech 2022 months ago since I attended last year and thoroughly enjoyed it. I took two days of vacation time for this. I participated all three days, only taking bathroom and meal breaks. I guess that's why I didn't write a blog post about the experience. </span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I checked out RootsTech Relatives prior to the conference starting. I have 44,981 relatives there; I only looked at maybe 10-12 of those! The closest cousin match I had is a 2nd cousin, 2x removed. That's pretty good! Turns out, after checking with a cousin on Facebook, who turned out to be this person's aunt, that I am acquainted with her mother, uncle, and aunts already. I had one 3rd cousin connection that I already know! We met in person for the first time in December! Then I had several 3rd cousins, 1x and 2x removed. I researched a few of them, and sent messages, hoping to make connections. I haven't heard back from anyone yet, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed. </span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Looking at the relationships between these cousin matches and myself, I have found some information I did not have and am busily working on extending my family tree! I rarely use FamilySearch so I've been missing out.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">The only Main Stage items I watched were "Ancestry For All" and "The 1950 U.S Census and You." The Ancestry.com video made me very excited for the things they are working on, and the great things ahead for users. I am especially interested in the partnership between Ancestry and Photomyne that will allow users to upload pictures, negatives, historical documents, etc. to the galleries of our ancestors for FREE. Hearing about the 1950 census (and the handwriting recognition technology!) and seeing Crista Cowan's enthusiasm for the release has me getting more excited every day! This will be the first census that my mother will be included in the enumeration. I'm looking forward to getting a peek at where she and her parents were in 1950. </span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I added many videos and classes to my Playlist. I did watch a lot of them. Luckily, I have more time to watch all of them! Some of the ones I watched were:</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span> - "Tarheels: Genealogy in Colonial Virginia and the North Carolinian backcountry" by Jonah Ryan <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Barnes </span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"> - "Maximizing Messages" by Michelle Patient (messages to cousin matches!)</span><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span><span><span> - "What to Do with Your DNA Test Results in 2022, Part 1" by Diahan Southard (Looking forward to <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>watching Parts 2 and 3 also.)</span><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span><span><span><span> - "No Time? Try Five Minute Family History Ideas" by Taralyn Parker</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span><span><span><span><span> - "A Call to Arms Part 1. Researching Revolutionary War Ancestors" by Melanie McComb </span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px;">I also visited the Expo Hall, though I did not explore it as much as I probably should have. I chatted with a Family Tree Maker customer service rep about the companion manual for FTM2019. I also watched the videos they had about the software, and I learned some very cool things this software will do that I was not even aware of! It's the little things that are so exciting. I visited Ancestry in the Expo Hall and watched some of their videos. I also plan to visit Photomyne's "booth" and watch the videos they have posted there. </span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px;">This opportunity to attend RootsTech from my own home for FREE has been the best gift of the pandemic for me. Otherwise, I would not be able to attend. I thoroughly enjoy most of the classes, and I learned so much that my head was spinning at the end. So I cannot say that I had one favorite experience, but I can say that I discovered two new teachers/presenters that I loved and hope to see again. </span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px;"><span> - First is Taralyn Parker. I watched three of her presentations. The above mentioned Five Minute Family History Ideas, but also "Power of the Post: Making Connections through Social Media," and, my favorite, "Finding Your Cousins on Instagram." Taralyn is full of enthusiasm and it shows. She explains things well. and she is full of great ideas. Her energy was awesome. I had joined Instagram years ago, but rarely used it. She got me excited to sit down and learn out to use it, the purpose of hashtags, and how to participate on the app fully. </span><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px;"><span><span> - Next is Jonah Ryan Barnes. I watched two of his presentations at this year's RootsTech: The one mentioned above about researching in Colonial Virginia and North Carolina and the other was "Cracking the Internet: Stop Bumbling and Start Searching like a Pro." (His wife, Charlotte, helped him on the last one.) Jonah is FULL of energy. He talks fast but he's understandable. That is a huge help in squeezing in all the information he needs to share in 20 minutes. He's funny. His hints and tips for searching the Internet like a pro were great! </span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 14.85px;"><span><span><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">Luckily, most of the classes shared a handout, syllabus, or copies of their Power Point slides with the attendees. I saved all of those so I can refer to them as needed.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">I am most looking forward to working with my DNA results more and figuring out how I'm related to my matches. This will lead me to use DNA Painter, which I heard great things about at this conference. I want to try out the new Ancestry feature for enhancing photographs. I want to continue to use Instagram and Facebook to try to find new cousins. I want to research my Revolutionary War ancestors. I want to finish watching all the classes I didn't get to the last three days...</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">My goodness, I already thought I don't have enough time to try and do all the genealogy things I want, but I REALLY do not have enough time now! There are not enough hours in the day... plus real life interferes... What are the chances of my becoming independently wealthy? Then I could stay home and do genealogy all the time... A girl can wish, can't she?</span></span></div><div><br /></div></span></span></div></span></div>Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15061165008186408924noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621956686414889979.post-19109262899123027342022-02-22T23:20:00.003-05:002022-02-22T23:26:59.982-05:00A Time Line for Reida Mae Poole (1905-1979)<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEirQb-vqN2jOw__DtSJ8COT449uIaHqYek6OQ0i5vgZEtWav4grWc6JrvxTDZJkRnWpKmEts_q85GenpdAJ144pHWfhC5igG7gRxT7v0WG4mzU9xd0YNCy-qt_gBbrHf1qaWaT5at5Jzkr7RA6NdZ6EcKs4faF8rOf5y7XzRzTYahvMstTnux3pWdxU=s130" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="130" data-original-width="95" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEirQb-vqN2jOw__DtSJ8COT449uIaHqYek6OQ0i5vgZEtWav4grWc6JrvxTDZJkRnWpKmEts_q85GenpdAJ144pHWfhC5igG7gRxT7v0WG4mzU9xd0YNCy-qt_gBbrHf1qaWaT5at5Jzkr7RA6NdZ6EcKs4faF8rOf5y7XzRzTYahvMstTnux3pWdxU" width="95" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Our connection:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Liz (that's me!)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">↓↓↓</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Gilbert Earl Tapley, 1928-2008 (my father)</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">↓↓↓</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Lusion Keman Tapley, 1870-1935 (my grandfather)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">↓↓ </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">James Tillman 'Fella' Tapley, 1904-1974 (my uncle)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">↓</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Reida Mae Poole, 1905-1979 (his wife and my aunt)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red;">Time Line for the life of Reida Mae Poole:</span></b><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk64148105;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk64148105;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk64148105;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk64148105;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725888;"></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk64148105;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725888;"></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk64148105;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725888;"></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725528;"></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725528;"></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725528;"></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725528;"></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725528;"></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725528;"></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk96462101;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk96462101;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk96462101;"></span></span></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1905<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 0<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Birth</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">October 5</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Kite, Johnson County, Georgia</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1906<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 0<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Historical Event</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><i><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">The Atlanta Race Riot.</span></i></b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 occurred on the evening of September
22-24. A newspaper reported the rapes of four white women by African American
men. Fueled by preexisting racial tensions, these reports enraged white men
who then arranged gangs to attack African American men. Over the next several
days, several thousand white men joined in and in the end, 26 people were
killed and many were injured.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1918<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 12<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Death of Parent</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Reida Mae’s father, William S.
Poole (1873-1918), passes away on July 25.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1923<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 18<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Marriage</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Married Wondell Renfroe on December
13 in Johnson County, Georgia.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1930<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 24<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Residence</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Kite, Johnson County,
Georgia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Listed on 1930 Census as “Widowed.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1932<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 26<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Historical Event</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Lake Placid, New York hosts the
Winter Olympic Games.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1932<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 26<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Marriage</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">May 19</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Married James Tillman Tapley
(1904-1974) in Georgia.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a name="_Hlk64148105">1935<o:p></o:p></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk64148105;">Age 29<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk64148105;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk64148105;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk64148105;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk64148105;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Historical Event</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk64148105;"><b><i><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">The FBI is Established.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">The Bureau of Investigation’s
name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help citizens know
that the government is helping<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>protect
from threats both domestically and abroad.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk64148105;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk64148105;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk64148105;"><a name="_Hlk87725888">1935<o:p></o:p></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk64148105;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725888;">Age
29<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk64148105;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725888;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Historical Event</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk64148105;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725888;"><b><i><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">The Social Security Act</span></i></b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"> created a basic right to a
pension in old age and insurance against unemployment.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk64148105;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725888;"></span></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk64148105;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725888;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1935<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 29<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Residence</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">District 55, Johnson County, Georgia</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a name="_Hlk87725528"></a><a name="_Hlk87724962"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725528;">1940<o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725528;">Age
34<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725528;"></span></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725528;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
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<td style="background: rgb(255, 242, 204); border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent4; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725528;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Residence</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
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<td style="background: rgb(255, 242, 204); border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent4; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 225pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725528;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">District 55, Johnson County,
Georgia</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725528;"></span></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725528;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.75pt;" valign="top" width="120">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725528;">1942<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725528;">Age
36<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<td style="background: rgb(255, 242, 204); border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent4; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 130.5pt;" valign="top" width="174">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725528;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Death of Parent</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
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<td style="background: rgb(255, 242, 204); border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent4; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 225pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725528;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Reida Mae’s mother, Dona Chivers
Poole (1872-1942), passes away on February 1 in Johnson County, Georgia</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725528;"></span></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87724962;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk87725528;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.75pt;" valign="top" width="120">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1942<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 36<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Historical Event</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<td style="background: rgb(197, 224, 179); border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent6; mso-background-themetint: 102; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 225pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><i><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Germans Sink Ships Near St.
Simons Island.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Lights from homes along the
coast of St. Simons Island (Georgia) provided a clear view of the SS Oklahoma
for German U-boat Captain Reinhard Hardegen on April 8, 1942.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A German torpedo was fired at the SS
Oklahoma shortly after midnight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An
hour later, a second torpedo was fired at the oil tanker Esso Baton Rouge.
Both ships sunk and the attacks left 22 seamen dead. After the incident,
residents of the Golden Isles panicked over concern of a German invasion of
the coast and were stringently observant of a nighttime blackout.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1946<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 40<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Residence</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Macon, Bibb County, Georgia</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.75pt;" valign="top" width="120">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1974<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 68<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Death of Spouse</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<td style="background: rgb(255, 242, 204); border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent4; mso-background-themetint: 51; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 225pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">James Tillman Tapley passed away
on July 25 in Macon, Bibb County, Georgia</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.75pt;" valign="top" width="120">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a name="_Hlk96462101">1979<o:p></o:p></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk96462101;">Age 73<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk96462101;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Historical Event</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
</td>
<td style="background: rgb(197, 224, 179); border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: accent6; mso-background-themetint: 102; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 225pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk96462101;"><b><i><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">The Department of Education.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></i></b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Department
of Education was organized to guide the schools throughout the United States
in what to teach and how to teach it. The Department also collects data on
the schools to see where government focus needs to go.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk96462101;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk96462101;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 89.75pt;" valign="top" width="120">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1979<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Age 73<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Death</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<td style="background: white; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 225pt;" valign="top" width="300">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Reida Mae passed away on
February 28 in Macon, Bibb County, Georgia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She is buried at the Gumlog Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery in
Johnson County, alongside her husband.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="text-align: left;"><o:p> <span style="font-family: arial;">Uncle James and Aunt Reida Mae never had children. Their children were all the nieces, nephews, or any other kids that came into their lives. They took care of everyone. I can still remember going to their home in Macon and eating a really good meal! I also remember the day I got off the school bus after school, and Mom told me Aunt Reida Mae had passed. Even though I had experienced the death of loved ones before, at age 11, I was more aware of what that meant, and I burst into tears at the news. </span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Both Reida Mae and Fella were the definition of good, down-home, country folks. That's a great compliment in my book.</span></span></p><p></p>Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15061165008186408924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621956686414889979.post-64314208930715145742022-02-19T23:34:00.002-05:002022-02-19T23:35:15.143-05:00Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - The Star of my own Who Do You Think You Are? Show<p> <i style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">From Randy (<b>a </b></span><b>cousin discovery!!</b><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">) over at </span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5621956686414889979/513848308727226924#"><span>Genea-Musings</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">:</span></i></span></p><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">it's </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"><b><span>Saturday Night</span></b></span><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;"><span> </span><span>- </span></span></span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">time for more </span><span style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;"><b><span><span style="font-size: large;">Genealogy Fun!!!</span></span></b></span></span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5621956686414889979/513848308727226924#" style="color: #6699cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUDAWGYivkDsxHOlHDOq99Y1nimRUKQrQqfJgZTnp5Tc_-swGSm0JNjmwaoOul1L5YT7r2_xgl_edi6gy0xDNC65ZeZQraDsFP1jNxzz3zQXeXe6xVF06LMfAsLm-FGjnMLWt0JR59uNw/s400/Tweety+Bird+Yippee.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;"></span></span></div></div><div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;">Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:</span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">(1)</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span><span style="color: red;"> Pretend that you are one of the subjects/guests on the <i>Who Do You Think You Are?</i> TV show on the NBC network.</span></span></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">(2) </span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span style="color: red;">Which of your ancestors (maximum of two) would be featured on your hour-long episode? What stores would be told, and what places would you visit?</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">(3) </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">Tell us all about it in </span></span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;">your own blog post, in a comment to this post, in a post on Facebook, or on Twitter. </span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span>Here's mine:</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.85px;">(1)</span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="color: red;"> Pretend that you are one of the subjects/guests on the <i>Who Do You Think You Are?</i> TV show on the NBC network.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><i>"Liz Tapley is a blogger and genealogist who has been researching her family history since she was a child! Despite having over 19,000 relatives in her Family Tree Maker database, she is still chasing that one elusive ancestor..."</i></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><i><br /></i></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.85px;">(2) </span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.85px;">Which of your ancestors (maximum of two) would be featured on your hour-long episode? What stores would be told, and what places would you visit?</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px;"> <span style="color: #38761d;">(a) Genealogists from the United States and Germany would explore the mystery that is the early life of Liz's 2nd great-grandfather, George W. Schwalls Sr (1838-1908). </span><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span><span style="color: #38761d;"><span> </span><span> </span>* Seemingly just appearing in the United States in the 1850s... how did he get to this country? Who did he travel with? How did he end up in rural south Georgia?</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span><span style="color: #38761d;"><span> </span><span> * Is the George Michael Schwall living in the next county over his cousin?</span><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span><span style="color: #38761d;"><span> </span><span> * What village/town/city was he from in Germany? Who were his parents? Grandparents?</span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span><span style="color: #38761d;"><span> </span><span> * After only being in the U.S. for no more than five years, he fought in the Civil War on the Confederate side. What was his motivation? What was that time like for him? </span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span><span><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span><span><span style="color: #38761d;">During the course of the show, I would visit Johnson County, Georgia to see where George lived and raised his children... then I would go to Germany and visit the any and all locations the professional genealogists have found that bring me closer to knowing George and his family's history. As an aside, I would definitely want to be driven everywhere I visit, especially in Germany where I am not familiar with the ways of the road. </span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span><span><span style="color: #38761d;">Now I believe the search for George's family would take the entire hour of the show. But if not...</span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span><span><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span><span><span style="color: #38761d;"><span> (b) Information about the adoption of my great-grandmother, Bessie Carter Ranney (1883-1960).</span><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span><span><span><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span><span><span><span style="color: #38761d;"><span> </span><span> * Perhaps through DNA, professional genealogists can find out the identity of her birth parents.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span><span><span><span><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"> * Did her adoptive parents, Charles Kelso Carter (1843-1916) and Sarah Schoonover Carter (1840-1918) know their daughter's' birth parents?</span><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="color: #38761d;">I would visit Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where Bessie was born and Eagle Grove, Iowa where she grew up. Since my mother and I have discovered through DNA testing that we have Scandinavian roots, which could only have come from Bessie, perhaps the show will take me to Norway or Denmark!</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></div></span></div>Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15061165008186408924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621956686414889979.post-78469556737882431162022-02-18T23:59:00.001-05:002022-02-18T23:59:23.376-05:00Morgan Goodgame Swain was Innkeeper, Blacksmith, Sheriff & Jailor<p><span style="font-family: arial;">On May 2, 1814, my 3rd great-grandmother, Sarah "Sally" Tapley (1775-bet. 1850-60) gave birth to twins out of wedlock. It has always been family folklore that the twins' father was a man named Canneth Swain (1770-1831), who just happened to be a neighbor of Sally's in Emanuel County, Georgia. Canneth was a married man, but all stories passed down indicate that the twins always knew he was their father. Also, I have found several descendants of the twins who were named Canneth. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">About 10-12 years ago, my cousin, Keith Tapley, provided the DNA that finally proved the link between the Tapleys and the Swains. So the family folklore was actually truth!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">(Just think... if things had been different, I would have been a Swain and not a Tapley! Mindboggling!)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Canneth married Rebecca Johnson in 1801 in Montgomery County, Georgia and together they had somewhere between 10-13 children. They were married until Canneth's death in 1831. In December of 1825, Canneth bought land in Thomas County, Georgia and moved his family there the following year. Thomas County is located about 170 miles southwest of Emanuel County... 3 hours and 15 minutes by car; many more hours by horse and wagon. The twins would have been about 12 years old. I do not know if they ever saw their father again after that. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">No one knows the reason for the move. All we have is conjecture. Were the boys getting old enough to announce to anyone who listened that Canneth was their father? Or perhaps they were wanting to spend time with their father? I would think their existence would have been an embarrassment to Rebecca Swain. Could she have pressured Canneth to move away? Or was it something as simple as finding better or more land? Canneth also owned nearly 2,000 acres of land in Early and Lee Counties, along with herds of hogs and cattle. So perhaps the reason was simply to be closer to his farmland and stock. We will probably never know. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Anyway, the DNA proof led me to research Canneth and Rebecca's children and their descendants since they are my relatives also. This is when I found Morgan Goodgame Swain.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Morgan, known as Morz, was the 3rd child of Canneth and Rebecca. (This makes him my 3rd great uncle.) He was born in Montgomery County in 1805. Morz was about 21 years old when his family moved south, and he went with them. Within two years, he had married Elizabeth Wooten and settled near her father in Thomas County. However, when the town of Troupville was established in 1838 as the county seat of Lowndes County, the Swains moved there to be one of the town's first residents. In Troupville, Morz set up a blacksmith shop and also took work as a Deputy Sheriff, both trades that suited him as one of the biggest, strongest men in Wiregrass Georgia. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Here is how his grandson, Montgomery Morgan Folsom (1857-1899) who was a Wiregrass poet and historian, described him:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"> <i>"Among those who settled in Troupville and left behind many momentous memories, was Morgan Goodgame Swain, a burly blacksmith from Emanuel, who was ever ready for a fight, frolic or a footrace. He stood six feet three and weighed over two hundred without pound of surplus flesh. As handsome as a Greek god he was gifted with herculean strength and a heart that was generous and true."</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span> "Many a time and oft has he stepped out in the road and throwing off his hunting-shirt, flop his arms and crow like a game-cock."</span><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">For five years, the Swains prospered in Troupville. While Elizabeth raised their children, Morz became owner and operator of Swain's Hotel (a tavern). But tragically, Elizabeth Wooten Swain died in 1843 at the age of 32, leaving Morgan with two children to raise. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">About six months after Elizabeth's death, in 1844, Morz remarried a Rebecca "Becky" Griffin. They had 5 children together. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"> "</span><i style="font-family: arial;">He </i><span style="font-family: arial;">[Morz]</span><i style="font-family: arial;"> erected his forge </i><span style="font-family: arial;">[blacksmith shop]</span><i style="font-family: arial;"> on the bank of the Ockolockocee </i><span style="font-family: arial;">[River]</span><i><span style="font-family: arial;">, and his wife took possession of the tavern. Becky, she was lord above, and Morz was lord below."</span></i><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Morz operated one of the three hotels in Troupville. When he remarried, he apparently felt it necessary to advertise his intention to continue as innkeeper. "Swain's Hotel," the tavern operated by Morz Swain, was properly called The Jackson Hotel, and for several months in 1844, he ran this ad in the papers of the state capitol.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNKz2MlWksO1eKWlT5rcRvz-TzaTiF17xvICvfJlk2UJUOmN0QOTsvrU8ljbyIh6rOi6_DI4GLu-XigT7wKpJbLM-TZV0ii5CLD1-5y1bRIMDAz8ibHGua1hzOceVrkXS9NsQZjBOKPvvYInRtmc8vQUGePJ-IkBz3lvSjhG1RLClMKcKiF4UGcnXJ=s447" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="329" data-original-width="447" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNKz2MlWksO1eKWlT5rcRvz-TzaTiF17xvICvfJlk2UJUOmN0QOTsvrU8ljbyIh6rOi6_DI4GLu-XigT7wKpJbLM-TZV0ii5CLD1-5y1bRIMDAz8ibHGua1hzOceVrkXS9NsQZjBOKPvvYInRtmc8vQUGePJ-IkBz3lvSjhG1RLClMKcKiF4UGcnXJ=w400-h295" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">However, the very next year, in late 1845, Morgan Swain sought to dispose of his hotel and Troupville city lots.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhPnR4cVXhYYaRrhhyucLstGmv982OHQ7DpIIi4YnE3QJW7nVRw9vPrFCk8kQRaJ1NXpPmwV8tOaMG7K7h1sVmm9TG-S6Uu9dao3YnBpE8A4Axsegih-4CgNHEwLfiUm3LQsaulGH80I2hqRdcvtwph168R9VMCUrkKQYWUx_iytw6tTXkJzaFrQWGo=s393" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="362" data-original-width="393" height="369" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhPnR4cVXhYYaRrhhyucLstGmv982OHQ7DpIIi4YnE3QJW7nVRw9vPrFCk8kQRaJ1NXpPmwV8tOaMG7K7h1sVmm9TG-S6Uu9dao3YnBpE8A4Axsegih-4CgNHEwLfiUm3LQsaulGH80I2hqRdcvtwph168R9VMCUrkKQYWUx_iytw6tTXkJzaFrQWGo=w400-h369" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;">During this time period, Morgan Swain had continued to hold public office, serving as Justice of the Peace of the 658th District of Lowndes County from 1844 to 1849, and also as the county jailor. Morz was also involved in the activities of the Democratic party in Lowndes County.</span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Morgan Goodgame Swain lived a short but prominent and colorful life in old Troupville, Georgia. He died there on August 9, 1851 at the young age of 46. </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgb44ukPvcEHBpU2t0xym9NM2MtexFnV26R4kfGK9XazhWIy_8lNUQDXv0x3IX2e7DxcwVLGSiIajY9NL64yyx9tCFg4OCygTNi6rLZudt0X4nQW34fq0JTSRf_X0-7Mtg56ExzHDmnhYspZ-4ig37eNlL2EMRan2aPrdzgODxepZHuAhfV4pEMkJdB=s430" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="90" data-original-width="430" height="84" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgb44ukPvcEHBpU2t0xym9NM2MtexFnV26R4kfGK9XazhWIy_8lNUQDXv0x3IX2e7DxcwVLGSiIajY9NL64yyx9tCFg4OCygTNi6rLZudt0X4nQW34fq0JTSRf_X0-7Mtg56ExzHDmnhYspZ-4ig37eNlL2EMRan2aPrdzgODxepZHuAhfV4pEMkJdB=w400-h84" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Obituary of Morgan G. Swain appeared Aug 19, 1851 in the Milledgeville Federal Union newspaper.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5ACy5ccB50rVqbm3wXRO52Nc40NcxhYqD57xb3YMdyxN3BoTSYRfN7zDQfSFh19dVrVP4tdUqGBT50InlqobN6MSa1swHNPwXIhRXKpjIiaR8-wV4fSY24xPC-ZF2Hz-Y1a_1vL-5BfARwt2Mz39buL8xFxarhsj1yu_Udb5SVmXBee_HRJAu9_uB=s455" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="455" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5ACy5ccB50rVqbm3wXRO52Nc40NcxhYqD57xb3YMdyxN3BoTSYRfN7zDQfSFh19dVrVP4tdUqGBT50InlqobN6MSa1swHNPwXIhRXKpjIiaR8-wV4fSY24xPC-ZF2Hz-Y1a_1vL-5BfARwt2Mz39buL8xFxarhsj1yu_Udb5SVmXBee_HRJAu9_uB=w400-h141" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: #ffffe3; text-align: left;">A slightly longer obituary appeared a few days later on Aug 22, 1851 in </span><em style="background-color: #ffffe3; text-align: left;">The Albany Patriot</em><span style="background-color: #ffffe3; text-align: left;">.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Becky Swain, Monz's widow, applied in July 1852 for guardianship of the "minors and orphans" of the deceased. The Ordinary of the Lowndes Court advertised the application in <i>The Milledgeville Southern Recorder</i>.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgmoJ5IoNU_FzO8UNegk4rV-TlbAunPHClO620xqW4evWUEwZF5mkOvd3wFmkA6PNdxBeTDDEm_WLvt1PVu0HwGeTAJcK9XXMW2lLtgISg3OdSEIsJLjsUZ8lrXH4ezKNIcJ0yBloe14YhkMuj8BFJ3h5kYGcplmOiQNOWvEsOGPs731nLrFeZFana3=s477" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="283" data-original-width="477" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgmoJ5IoNU_FzO8UNegk4rV-TlbAunPHClO620xqW4evWUEwZF5mkOvd3wFmkA6PNdxBeTDDEm_WLvt1PVu0HwGeTAJcK9XXMW2lLtgISg3OdSEIsJLjsUZ8lrXH4ezKNIcJ0yBloe14YhkMuj8BFJ3h5kYGcplmOiQNOWvEsOGPs731nLrFeZFana3=w400-h238" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Meanwhile, Becky's father, who served as administrator of Morgan Swain's estate, made notice of the disposal of Morgan's property and the conclusion of his affairs.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgjFrMzadf3zlmFaJY5LYOu4A2BSc8f6PhZ979R__xa9nFVERn5A1aZAd2j8831v-ABCyT62o-HXXbSJpyaxSBA0wiT3smem0Q15Zr8AJZ8iWLH_WyVgU-_bnFTZQ0whb1s6fZsVQorpDjg8td6wsmlJKYtMcH-Gk5G-X2PWb2WEtyi3eI8WRqZap8J=s433" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="404" data-original-width="433" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgjFrMzadf3zlmFaJY5LYOu4A2BSc8f6PhZ979R__xa9nFVERn5A1aZAd2j8831v-ABCyT62o-HXXbSJpyaxSBA0wiT3smem0Q15Zr8AJZ8iWLH_WyVgU-_bnFTZQ0whb1s6fZsVQorpDjg8td6wsmlJKYtMcH-Gk5G-X2PWb2WEtyi3eI8WRqZap8J=w400-h374" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Map of Troupville with the location of Morgan Swain's hotel marked:</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgAwLM_WGZKBZGr3lD9lHtAiCIVKo08aljNuoim6xTi2a1oTeVlwW2wjxtfxPGsCQqRUr1hHEVo05u4qE7ATXLs9ihKiWd69uyk6_TIhgD2OORx_Nkop6NGqb49crAo86G3fBzyLEtZi56MfIGK7mP5FVoei8mdYE0sbAkEdhZMdne9CvDPQ60lko06=s1312" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1312" data-original-width="953" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgAwLM_WGZKBZGr3lD9lHtAiCIVKo08aljNuoim6xTi2a1oTeVlwW2wjxtfxPGsCQqRUr1hHEVo05u4qE7ATXLs9ihKiWd69uyk6_TIhgD2OORx_Nkop6NGqb49crAo86G3fBzyLEtZi56MfIGK7mP5FVoei8mdYE0sbAkEdhZMdne9CvDPQ60lko06=w464-h640" width="464" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Valdosta became the county seat of Lowndes County and there is nothing left of Troupville except some white rocks where Morgan Swain's blacksmith forge used to be. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Oh and no, I do not know where his middle name "Goodgame" came from. I wish I did!</span></p><p><i style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sources: <a href="https://raycityhistory.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/morz-swain-was-innkeeper-blacksmith-sheriff-jailor-of-old-troupville-ga/" target="_blank">Ray City History Blog, April 7, 2012</a>, <a href="https://raycityhistory.wordpress.com/2014/02/09/map-of-old-troupville-ga-with-notes-on-the-residents/" target="_blank">Ray City History Blog, February 9, 2014</a>, <a href="https://raycityhistory.wordpress.com/2019/07/20/montgomery-morgan-folsom/" target="_blank">Ray City History Blog, July 20, 2019</a>, <a href="https://wwals.net/2018/03/16/ockolocoochee-little-river-1889-01-29/" target="_blank">WWLAS.net, March 16, 2018</a></span></i></p>Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15061165008186408924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621956686414889979.post-90879832458646476622022-02-15T18:42:00.000-05:002022-02-15T18:42:18.928-05:00Time Capsule Tuesday, 1928<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjHm_u2aMmtSt1aTKmxsFtu-ByNFAJStujjIEvgEUjYaIa2dwqrMOZSnm9Y9Q7hJSQlgT8N16Z1g1jqwFona_9vLAfHIJm6qXOCRm6IbIeBW55iZwUIASSWESnNrwJZbVRMjFP7qpbfZxgT-_hOLe5TJL2mabcDLiLhlhUREPsndNDtYRcPBNjiEhNh" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="210" data-original-width="241" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjHm_u2aMmtSt1aTKmxsFtu-ByNFAJStujjIEvgEUjYaIa2dwqrMOZSnm9Y9Q7hJSQlgT8N16Z1g1jqwFona_9vLAfHIJm6qXOCRm6IbIeBW55iZwUIASSWESnNrwJZbVRMjFP7qpbfZxgT-_hOLe5TJL2mabcDLiLhlhUREPsndNDtYRcPBNjiEhNh" width="275" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>My father's only surviving first cousin, Jaqueline "Jackie" Tapley Snell, turned 94 years old yesterday. She was born February 14, 1928. Let's see what was happening in America at that time.</p><p>1928 was a leap year. February 14, 1928 was a Tuesday. It was Valentine's Day. </p><p>In the United States, the most popular baby name for girls is <i>Mary</i>. This name was given to 66,869 baby girls. For the boys, it is <i>Robert</i>. This name was recorded 60,696 times in the year 1928. </p><p>The generation born between 1928 and 1945 is called the Silent Generation. This generation was comparatively small because the Great Depression and World War II caused people to have fewer children. The generation was so named because it was mostly silent; it did not issue manifestoes, make speeches or carry posters. They tended to be thrifty and even miserly. They were about "working within the system." They kept their heads down and worked hard. They preferred to play it safe. </p><p>The President of the United States was Calvin Coolidge. The Vice President was Charles Gates Dawes. </p><p>The decade of the 1920s, also known as the <i>Jazz Age</i> and "The Roaring Twenties," featured economic prosperity and carefree living for many. The decade began with a roar and ended with a crash. It was a decade of change, when many Americans owned cars, radios, and telephones for the first time. The cars brought the need for good roads. The radio brought the world closer to home. The telephone connected families and friends. Prosperity was on the rise in cities and towns. Women shortened, or "bobbed," their hair, flappers danced and wore short fancy dresses, and men shaved off their beards. </p><p>The 1920s also represented an era of change and growth. America had become a world power and was no longer considered just another former British colony. American culture, such as books, movies, and Broadway theater, was now being exported to the rest of the world. World War I had left Europe on the decline and America on the rise. This decade helped to establish America's position in respect to the rest of the world through its industry, inventions, and creativity.</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>1928 Prices</b></p><p>Bread: $0.09/loaf</p><p>Milk: $0.57/gal</p><p>Eggs: $0.47/dozen</p><p>Car: $475</p><p>House: $7,333</p><p>Stamp: $0.02/each</p><p>Average Income: $1,515/year</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Songs from 1928:</b></p><p><i>Golden Gate</i> by Al Jolson</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="305" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cirj-BcMbBo" width="466" youtube-src-id="cirj-BcMbBo"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><i>How About Me? </i>by Irving Berlin</p><p><i>One Kiss </i>by Oscar Hammerstein</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Top Movies of 1928</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Stand and Deliver<span> </span><span> </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjxX6AujGNsLjriaW8ExxbWWeAtpA1RyASCk8EsCRWeD41McJNqlEGWqt4LVf2pd1T6docmCcMtV-tnRfayOixzMsxJAlV07dNx_wkpaBDcBKMSB0l7mLrK33il910G1h6fWsBlIFVxSUWLIklTpPU6pgV-YMkvBURmuNNwkx2NlfzcD6O1BI2RWvoF" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="353" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjxX6AujGNsLjriaW8ExxbWWeAtpA1RyASCk8EsCRWeD41McJNqlEGWqt4LVf2pd1T6docmCcMtV-tnRfayOixzMsxJAlV07dNx_wkpaBDcBKMSB0l7mLrK33il910G1h6fWsBlIFVxSUWLIklTpPU6pgV-YMkvBURmuNNwkx2NlfzcD6O1BI2RWvoF" width="169" /></a></div><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Four Sons</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Bare Knees</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>People Born on February 14:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">1882 - <i>John Barrymore, </i>American actor and singer</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p>1894 - <i>Jack Benny</i>, American actor, singer, and producer</p><p>1921 - <i>Hugh Downs</i>, American journalist, game show host, and producer </p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Historical Events on February 14, 1928</b></p><p>The Interborough Rapid Transit Company clashed with city and state authorities in New York over the proposed raising of the subway fair from 5 cents to 7 cents. </p><p>The silent drama film, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Sons" target="_blank">Four Sons</a>,</i> (mentioned above) premiered at the Gaiety Theatre in New York City.</p><p>The II Olympic Winter Games were in full swing in St. Moritz, Switzerland.</p><p><br /></p><p>And... the hot new toy in 1928 was <i>Chinese Checkers</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span>Sources</span><span>: </span><span><a href="http://dmarie.com/timecap/" target="_blank">dmarie Time Capsule</a> </span><a href="https://takemeback.to/14-February-1928" target="_blank">TAKEMEBACK.TO</a><span>, </span><span><a href="https://www.ncpedia.org/history/20th-Century/1920s" target="_blank">1920s: A Decade of Change</a>, <a href="https://www.onthisday.com/date/1928/february/14" target="_blank">onthisday.com</a>, </span><span>and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_1928" target="_blank">Wikipedia, February 1928</a><span>. </span><span>Video courtesty of <a href="http://YouTube.com">YouTube.com</a>.</span><span> </span></span></p></div>Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15061165008186408924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621956686414889979.post-36256413377174229072022-02-12T23:39:00.001-05:002022-02-12T23:50:57.446-05:00Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Pick a Day in the Life of an Ancestor**<p> <i style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">From Randy (<b>a </b></span><b>cousin discovery!!</b><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">) over at </span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5621956686414889979/513848308727226924#"><span>Genea-Musings</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.85px;">:</span></i></span></p><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">it's </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"><b><span>Saturday Night</span></b></span><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;"><span> </span><span>- </span></span></span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">time for more </span><span style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;"><b><span><span style="font-size: large;">Genealogy Fun!!!</span></span></b></span></span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5621956686414889979/513848308727226924#" style="color: #6699cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUDAWGYivkDsxHOlHDOq99Y1nimRUKQrQqfJgZTnp5Tc_-swGSm0JNjmwaoOul1L5YT7r2_xgl_edi6gy0xDNC65ZeZQraDsFP1jNxzz3zQXeXe6xVF06LMfAsLm-FGjnMLWt0JR59uNw/s400/Tweety+Bird+Yippee.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;"></span></span></div></div><div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;">Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:</span></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><div style="font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">(1)</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span><span style="color: red;"> Michael John Neill wrote "Pick a Day" on Thursday, February 3, in his <a href="http://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/page/2/" target="_blank">Genealogy Tip of the Day</a> blog. </span></span></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">(2) </span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span style="color: red;">Read Michael's post, and then write your own post. Tell us your day, your person, and then answer the ten questions.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">(3) </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;">Tell us all about it in </span></span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;">your own blog post, in a comment to this post, in a post on Facebook, or on Twitter. </span></div><div style="font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Here's mine:</span></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><b>The person I chose for this exercise is my paternal grandfather, Lusion Keman 'L.K.' Tapley (1870-1935). The date chosen was April 14, 1930.</b></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>* <i>Where was my ancestor living?</i></b></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i style="color: #333333;"> </i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Papa was living in Kite (District 55), Johnson County, Georgia.</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">His farm was located between Highway 57 (going toward Wrightsville) and Fortner Pond Road, which runs into Highway 221 North (heading toward Bartow). </span><br /></b></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>* Who was in his household?</i></b></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i style="color: #333333;"> </i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">In his household were his wife of 16 years, Nealie Drake Tapley (1895-1970), age 35; their sons, William Lamar (1915-1985), age 14; John Russell "Russ" (1917-1967), age 12; Dorsey Franklin "Dorse" (1919-2007), age 10; Jack Dempsey "Demp" (1921-1994), age 8; Gilbert (1928-2008), age 1; and their daughter, Irene (1925-2004), age 4. </span><br /></b></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>* <i>What was the ancestor's occupation?</i></b></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i style="color: #333333;"> </i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Papa was always a farmer. The 1930 census states that he was "working on his own account." So I take that to mean he was farming his own land. Lusion's parents gave each of their children some land, but I do not know the acreage of Papa's portion. This date is two years before Papa and Grandma lost their land to foreclosure.</span><br /></b></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>* What was the ancestor's age?</i></b></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i style="color: #333333;"> </i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">On this date, he was actually 60 years old, though the census states he was 57. <br /></span></b></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>* What was going on nationally on this date (at this point in time)?</i></b></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i style="color: #333333;"> </i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">More than 4 million people are unemployed as a result of the Wall Street Crash of 1929.</span><br /></b></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Arizona scientists discover a ninth planet - Pluto. <br /></span></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><b><span><span> For the first time, the 30th U.S. Census asks whether the respondents owned a radio, reflecting an increased interest in communication technology and consumer goods.</span><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><b><span><span><br /></span></span></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><b><span><span><span> The Nazi party becomes the second largest political party in Germany.</span><br /></span></span></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><b><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><b><span><span><span><span> Construction on the Hoover Dam started later in the year 1930. The Hoover Dam was part of a larger public works relief program to create jobs for those struggling during the first years of the Great Depression.</span><br /></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><b><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> CBS broadcasts the New York Philharmonic live over the radio for the first time.</span><br /></b></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>* What was going on locally/regionally?</i></b></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i style="color: #333333;"> </i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The closest newspaper I could find was "The Atlanta Constitution." Some of the Georgia news article titles on April 14, 1930 include:<br /></span></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><b><span> "State Education Convention Will Open in Macon Today"</span><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><b><span><span> "Convicted Forger Escapes at Macon"</span><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><b><span><span><span> "Wesleyan is Host to University Women" (American Association of University Women)</span><br /></span></span></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><b><span><span><span><span> "Thermometer Reaches 84.3 Degrees in Macon"</span><br /></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><b><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><b><span><span><span><span><span> "South Carolinian Shot to Death" (in Augusta)</span><br /></span></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span> "Driver Dies as Auto Plunges Off Bridge" (Augusta)</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> "Byrd Murder Case Will Reopen Today - Dan Tyre to Face Trial for Ax Slaying at Blackshear"</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> "Aged Georgian Robbed, Beaten" (Savannah)</span><br /></b></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"> <br /></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14.85px;"><i>* Were my ancestor's parents alive?</i></b></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i style="color: #333333;"> </i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">No, his father had passed in 1912, and his mother died in 1924.</span><br /></b></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>* Were my ancestor's siblings alive?</i></b></span><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14.85px;"><i> </i></b></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Other than two sisters who died as children, all nine of Papa's other siblings were alive on this date. These included Franklin Morgan "Frank" (1867-1938), James "Jim" (1868-1941), Elizabeth Virginia "Lizzie" (1873-1959), Tabitha "Bosh" (1875-1956), George Washington Sentell "Tell" (1876-1944), Bennett Olin "Ol" (1878-1955), Solomon (1881-1971), Vianna Bell (1886-1965), and Bascom Biship (1889-1967). </span></b></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>* Where would he have gone to church the previous Sunday?</i></b></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i style="color: #333333;"> </i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">I'm not sure that Papa attended church. But I can guarantee that Grandma Nealie was at Powell's Chapel every Sunday!<br /></span></b></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>* Who were my ancestor's neighbors?</i></b></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i style="color: #333333;"> </i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">His immediate neighbors were Frank Rodgers and family on one side and C.L. Stephens and his son, Elmo, on the other side. A couple of houses up the street was his son, Champ Lusion (1909-1974) and his wife, Pauline Horton Tapley (1912-2003). Pauline's family lived next to them. Next to Champ were the Pooles... their daughter, Reida Mae (1905-1979), ended up marrying Lusion's oldest son, James Tillman "Fella" (1904-1974). </span><br /></b></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>** Please note that this is the Saturday Night Fun prompt from last Saturday, February 5. I missed it last week, and since I am not any kind of sports fan, I chose to go ahead and do last week's prompt. </i></b></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px; margin: 0px;"><br /></div></span></div>Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15061165008186408924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621956686414889979.post-53109179973220800292022-02-09T22:58:00.000-05:002022-02-09T22:58:33.491-05:00Family Surname: Schwall or Schwalls<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The surname Schwall is German in origin. Germans began to use surnames in the 1400s. Occupational names were the most common, but nicknames and location names were also used.<br />
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Every village had similar trades (or occupations) from which people took their surnames, so people from different German villages who had the same trade and therefore the same surname are not necessarily related.<br />
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Today, German surnames have undergone many spelling changes, especially as Germans have immigrated to the United States. In my own family's instance, my ancestor added an "S" to Schwall in order to differentiate himself from his cousin living in the next county over. <br />
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The word "schwall" means "flood" in German. Does this give me a hint as to where the name came from? Maybe. In the course of my research, I came across the origin of the name. It was based on location, perhaps a swamp or swamp-like land. Unfortunately, I did not copy the information I found, nor did I record the source, and now have no way of knowing exactly what it said. A lesson learned. <br />
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In my online research, I find this origin and meaning multiple times:<br />
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"South German: habitational name from places so named in Nassau and the Rhineland."<br />
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So what the heck does THAT mean? Well, it does provide clues...<br />
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Habitation is a place of residence or a colony or settlement. So the adjective habitational would describe the surname as a name from a place of residence or colony or settlement. <br />
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Nassau is a town located in the German State of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz in German). It is about 60 miles southwest of Bonn.<br />
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Rhineland-Palatinate is one of the 16 states of the Federal Republic of Germany. <br />
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The Rhineland lies in West Germany along both banks of the middle Rhine River. It borders on the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France. <br />
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So this gives me a possible area that my Schwalls ancestor was from. However, that is a lot of ground to cover which would be oh so much easier if I had any idea what village or town or city where George Schwalls was born. I do believe it might be in the correct vicinity considering this: The state of Rhineland-Palantinate was established in 1946. It was formed from the northern part of the French Occupation Zone, which included <i>parts of Bavaria</i>... (italics added). This is significant because on one single document I have managed to locate during my research, George indicated he was from Bavaria. So even though this German state was formed almost 100 years after he left the country, it still gives me a clue as to the general location he may hail from. <br />
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Another clue is that Rhineland-Palantinate has supplied immigrants to many parts of the world. The Pennsylvania Dutch spoken by the Amish in the United States is derived from the German dialect spoken in the Rhineland-Palatinate, which many Palatine refugees brought to the colony in the early decades of the 18th century. Family lore insists that our Schwalls were "Dutch." <br />
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<i>I have information about only 4 generations of my maternal Schwalls line:<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><span>- <b>George W. Schwalls Sr.</b></span></span><br />
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</i>My 2nd great-grandfather. He was born 01 Jan 1837 somewhere in<span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span>Germany and died 21 Jan 1908 in Johnson County, Georgia.<b> </b>He married (1) in 1866 in Edgefield County, South Carolina, Lincelia E. Claxton, born 10 Apr 1839 in Edgefield County. She died 18 Jan 1882. They had seven children:<b> </b><br />
<br /> <i>Susan M. Schwalls</i><br />
<i>Linnie Schwalls</i><br />
<i>Charlie Milton Schwalls</i><br />
<i>William Louis Schwalls</i><br />
<i><b>Mattie Schwalls</b></i><br />
<i>M. M. Schwalls</i><br />
<i>George W. Schwalls Jr</i><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">George married (2) 16 Jul 1883 in Johnson County, Georgia, </span></span></span>Mary J. Williams, born 15 Mar 1851 Georgia. She died 14 Mar 1922. They had six children:<br />
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<i>Hattie Barbara Schwalls</i><br />
<i>Dillie Schwalls</i><br />
<i>Samuel Thomas Schwalls</i><br />
<i>Rosa Schwalls</i><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Rufus E. Lester Schwalls </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Lizzie Lee Schwalls </i><i><span style="color: red;"><span><b> </b></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: red;"><span><b>- Mattie Schwalls</b></span></span></i></span><br />
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</i>My great-grandmother. She was born 25 May 1877, presumably in Johnson County, Georgia. She married 18 Nov 1903 in Johnson County, Lusion Keman Tapley, born 31 Mar 1870 in Johnson County and died 3 Jul 1935 in Wadley, Jefferson County, Georgia. They had the following
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<i>James Tillman Tapley<b> </b></i><br />
<i><b>Charles Morgan Tapley</b><br />Champ Lusion Tapley<br />Woodrow Tapley (died shortly after birth)</i><br />
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Mattie passed away 26 Apr 1912 after giving birth to Woodrow.<br />
<br /><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><span><b>- Charles Morgan Tapley </b></span></span></span><br />
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My grandfather was born 27 Jun 1907 in Johnson County, Georgia and died 12 Nov 1973 in Swainsboro,
Emanuel County, Georgia. He
married (1) 27 Jun 1928 in California, Gladys Ruth Van Cleave, born 31 Jul 1909 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and died 01 Dec 1987 in Glendale, Los Angeles County, California. They had two children. Charles married (2) 03 Dec 1939 in Redlands, San Bernardino County, California, Ethel Irene Ranney, born 06 Jul 1913 in Elsie, Clinton County, Michigan and died 12 Nov 1973 in Dublin, Laurens County, Georgia. They had the following child:<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><span><b>- Linda Irene Tapley</b></span></span></span><br />
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My mother was born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. She and my father had
the following children:<br />
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Michael Edward Tapley<br />
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- And <span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;">ME</span></span>. <br />
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<i>Ancestor Search, Free Dictionary of Surname Origins & Last Name Meanings, German Surname Origins & Genealogy Resources, http://www.searchforancestors.com/surnames/origin/germansurnames.html</i><br />
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<i>British Surnames and Surname Profiles, Schwall, Classification and Origin of Schwall, http://www.britishsurnames.co.uk/surnames/SCHWALL/origin</i><br />
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<i>Family Education, NameLab, Schwall, http://genealogy.familyeducation.com/surname-origin/schwall</i><br />
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<i>Dictionary.com, http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/habitational</i><br />
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<i>Rhineland-Palatinate. (2013, May 13). In <i>Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia</i>. Retrieved June 9, 2013, from <a class="external free" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rhineland-Palatinate&oldid=554882307">http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rhineland-Palatinate&oldid=554882307</a> </i><br />
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<i>Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rhineland.jpg</i><br />
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