There are many companies who offer DNA analysis for purposes of discovering family members. Deciding on getting tested is a complex decision. Let me help you decide. As you might infer from the image above, I feel DNA testing is over-rated for genealogical research. There is a place for it, as long as you do …
When I was an undergrad at GSU, I wrote for the student newspaper, The Signal. While I mostly wrote news bits and a few features on some minor controversies. I was taken aback about a story told to me when I was making my routine stop by the Campus Police Station. I had already heard …
The Family Bible Preservation Project does great work in getting non-standard genealogical sources indexed and connected to the records of the people recorded. They also issue interesting and fun genealogical challenges – usually finding someone in an obscure reference, such as people mentioned in an embroidered sampler. I took on a challenge, from the attached …
Jean Byrd Lee Bowen Rollins 1913-2020 While it is best to gather oral histories and document during life, the event of a person’s death is a poignant time to gather the story of a person’s life. Not only is this a way to honor the person, it can be a part of the grieving process. …
I received a phone call on my cell phone recently…. with so many spam calls, I was expecting it to be annoying, but instead it was a kind voice, apologetic, letting me know she might have a wrong number… She was looking for a friend, Janet Profitt, and all she had to go on was …
Genealogy is everywhere we look… on our first of many “pandemic walks” with family, we encountered a large plaque attached to an even larger rock in a newly opened public green space. The plaque reads: The Seven Branches area got its name from the branch that crossed Holcomb Bridge Road seven times. Before the road …
