Journal
38 articles on finding ancestors, reading records, and keeping the story with the evidence.
December 27, 2020 · Christopher Hall
This is the fifth installment of our multipart series on the tw-generation study of the Charles Hall Shearn family and the family of his father, Mark Hall Shearn. If you like, you can also read the previous installments:
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December 9, 2020 · Tracy Hall
What is one thing you can think of that makes you think of Irish people? I am sure many things popped into your head. But, in my family it is drinking tea, morning, noon and night. When you are sick, you drink it even more. So I thought it would be fun to look up some of the h...
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November 28, 2020 · Christopher Hall
This is the fourth part of our multipart series on the two-generation study of the Charles Hall Shearn family and the family of his father, Mark Hall Shearn. If you like, you can also read parts one , two , and three .
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November 17, 2020 · Tracy Hall
The National Archives has recently released records from Britain’s involvement in the African slave trade and its colonization of Africa. At one point Britain had control or occupied 30% of Africa’s people. While most of the records were kept for administrative purposes and th...
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November 5, 2020 · Tracy Hall
Fire. When doing genealogy I cannot even tell you how many times I have heard, "Well, there was a fire...” A few times before the person said it I said, "Let me guess, there was a fire.” Well, as luck would have it, trying to find records of my Irish lineage has not been an ea...
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October 21, 2020 · Christopher Hall
This is the third part of our multipart series on the two-generation study of the Charles Hall Shearn family and the family of his father, Mark Hall Shearn. If you like, you can also read parts one and two . Matilda Hart was Charles’ first wife.
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October 6, 2020 · Tracy Hall
October is Black History month in the United Kingdom and Ireland. So when I was reading a story about Frederick Douglass' time in Ireland. I thought, "This is a perfect time to write about it."
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September 22, 2020 · Christopher Hall
This is part two of our on-going two generation study of the families of Charles Hall Shearn and his father Mark Hall Shearn. ( Read part one and read part three )
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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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