Mam-ma's Southern Family

After locating the usual records for an ancestor at Ancestry and FamilySearch , I look for newspaper articles to fill in details about their lives between the tax, deed, vital, and census records found for them. Case in point. Many of my mother’s ancestors lived in Texas and I searched recently to see if there were newer articles in the newspapers in Erath County. I look for these at the wonderful website, The Portal to Texas History , which has many digitized records. One of the largest collections is the Texas Digital Newspaper Program. As of July 7, 2023, they have ten million pages. [1] This website is hosted by the University of North Texas Libraries. I learned something new about my 3x-great-grandfather, James M. Coor, by searching in the newspapers of Erath County. There were two articles in the same newspaper about his hunting abilities. On the front page, we learned that he shot a buck that weighed 160 pounds and that he saw three more bucks. [2] On page 4, he was referr...

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's  Saturday Night  again - time for some more  Genealogy Fun!! Here is our assignment from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings: 1) What are three things about one of your ancestors that you have learned doing genealogy research?    Here’s mine: 1) Lela Ann Loveless was born on 2 April 1896 in East Fork Township of Faulkner County, Arkansas as the youngest child of Ebenezer Loveless and Eliza A. Rodgers. 2) She was just eleven years old when her mother died in 1907. 3) She married George Warren Lancaster on 15 December 1912 when she was sixteen years old. Her brother William Hutson Loveless married George’s younger sister, Josephine Hazel Lancaster on 24 November 1915. Bonus: Their children were double cousins, and my grandmother, Pansy Lancaster, was very close to her double cousin, Dorothy Loveless. Lela Ann is my maternal great-grandmother. Copyright © 2023 by Lisa S. Gorrell, Mam-ma's Southern Family, All rig...