Mam-ma's Southern Family

I am working on this year-long prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow . I will write each week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or at My Trails Into the Past . I’m looking forward to writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. I am still trying to discover more about Samuel Johnston so I can discover his origins in South Carolina. This week I’m looking at tax records. There are tax records digitized at the Mississippi State Archives and the images are available on FamilySearch. [1] I could search the database, but instead I browsed the records specifically from Yalobusha County, where the Johnston family was living in 1850 and 1860. The earliest tax record was for 1853. [2] There are 47 images for the county and the names are listed in loose alphabetical order (i.e. all the J surnames are together). There were no “Johnston” names, but five “Johnson” names listed together, including a Samuel. There ...

I am working on this year-long prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow . I will write each week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or at My Trails Into the Past . I’m looking forward to writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. Boulder Creek is a small community in Santa Cruz County, California. The creek served as a flume in the logging days. In the 1950s, my grandparents had a cabin in Boulder Creek.  I don’t know if they owned the property or rented it. There was a very nice painting of the cabin but at the moment, the location of the painting is unknown. The last time I saw the painting was before my grandmother passed away in 2013. However, I do have a photograph.  I don’t know how long they used the cabin, but later they had a cabin (really a trailer) in Nice at Clear Lake. The Clear Lake cabin I had visited. One week us four older children spent some time with Mam-ma at this cabin. I remember the big ants (...