Journal
138 articles on finding ancestors, reading records, and keeping the story with the evidence.
September 12, 2020 · Tracy Hall
One thing that is almost certain, while doing your genealogy you are bound to find some skeletons that have been hidden away. One that seems to be very common is illegitimate children. What do you do when you do not know the child's father's name? How can you trace such a seem...
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September 4, 2020 · Tracy Hall
What did you learn about the history of this country before we won our Independence? Between Independence and the Civil War? From the Civil War to the Civil Rights movement? It is important to know the good and the bad about this country. If you only learn the ugly you will on...
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August 26, 2020 · Christopher Hall
Over the last few months I have completed a two-generation study of my family from England. That means I have researched a single family: parents and children for one generation from birth to death and everything in between. Then I did the same thing for the family of one of t...
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August 18, 2020 · Tracy Hall
Some days I find it hard to believe that there was a time when people in the United States could not vote. Yet, women could not vote until after the ratification of the 19th Amendment. On August 18, 1920, Tennessee became the last of the 36 states needed to ratify the Amendmen...
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August 12, 2020 · Tracy Hall
If you ever go to Ireland there is symbolism everywhere. I recently read a story from the area around Dingle, Ireland. Oh how I wished I knew this story before I went. I love knowing stories about areas we visit. Once again knowing the history of areas you are visiting makes t...
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August 6, 2020 · Tracy Hall
I know it has been discussed before but let’s talk about it again. Have you joined any family history societies? We joined our first one last year, and boy I wish we would have done it so much sooner. First, my husband and I both have ancestry from Somerset and Dorset in Engla...
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July 24, 2020 · Tracy Hall
In March, the National Museum of American Indians had an event called "Finding Common Ground" that looked into the intersectional history between African Americans and American Indians. History is a fickle thing. It isn’t always full of happy things and really in many cases th...
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July 16, 2020 · Tracy Hall
Have you heard of the Giant’s Causeway? It is located in Northern Ireland in County Antrim. It is an amazing natural wonder to see. A little history, 50 to 60 million years ago there was a lot of volcanic activity. As the molten basalt spread across chalk beds. As the lava coo...
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July 10, 2020 · Tracy Hall
History. How important is history to everyday life? To genealogy? In my opinion, everything meshes together. Knowing factual history can help you to understand the time period your family lived. Have you ever thought, “Why in the world did they decide to move there or do that?...
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July 4, 2020 · Tracy Hall
On this Independence Day when the world is in turmoil let's look back at the important document that started the path to American Independence.
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June 22, 2020 · Tracy Hall
Ireland and its tumultuous history. No one can say the Irish are not strong willed and maybe a little head strong. In the late 1600's there was a chance that Catholic James of England may regain the throne that was taken from him by Protestant William of Orange. In 1690 in a t...
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June 16, 2020 · Tracy Hall
In the fall of 2005 my friend Tammie and I decided to be Girl Scout leaders for her daughter’s Daisy troop. We had gone through scouting all the way through high school and thought it would be a fun adventure. We had a sign up and had a lot of girls join. We got a phone call i...
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