Mam-ma's Southern Family

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:  It's  Saturday Night  Again -  Time For Some More  Genealogy Fun!! Our assignment from Randy of Genea-Musings tonight is to:   1)  Use the FREE FamilySearch Full-Text Search ( https://www.familysearch.org/search/full-text ) to find a record for one of your ancestors that is new to you. 2)  Share your results on your own blog or in a Facebook post.  Please share a link in Comments on this post if you write your own post. Here's mine: This tool was announced during RootsTech this winter and I have used it often. Most of the hits I have received have been in deeds. If at home, only hits will return in records that are freely open at home. If the film is restricted to a FamilySearch Center or an affiliate library, then you will not receive a hit. However, you will get a hit at the FSC or library. For today’s exercise, I decided to search in Texas for N.H.O. Polly, a circuit minister who li...

This blog is about my maternal grandmother, Pansy Louise Lancaster's line. Below are her maternal line that I know of. Me. Lela Nell Johnston (1934 Erath Co, Texas -1992 Contra Costa Co, Calif.) Pansy Louise Lancaster (1913 Erath Co, Texas - 2013 Contra Costa Co, Calif.) Lela Ann Loveless (1896 Faulkner Co, Ark. - 1951 Erath Co, Texas) Eliza A. Rodgers (1854 South Carolina - 1907 Faulkner Co, Ark) Rebecca Waddell (1820s South Carolina - ?? probably in Faulkner Co, Ark) That's it. I get lost in South Carolina, where records are scarce. I'm not even sure of Rebecca's surname. Some hint given to me years ago that I don't have the source of. Here is the line up to Eliza. The only photos I have. Copyright © 2024 by Lisa S. Gorrell, Mam-ma's Southern Family, All rights reserved.

This past week, I have been on a research trip in north Texas researching my Coor, Lancaster, Loveless, Johnston, and Polly families in Comanche, Dallas, Erath, Montague, and Rockwall Counties. I have been successful in locating hints, background information on the periods in which they lived, and actual records of deeds and tax lists. I have also visited cemeteries and photographed my family’s tombstones. For the theme this week, I did an every-word search in my genealogy program and came up with a hint that I had forgotten about. In the Dublin Progress on 20 April 1889 was a “Resolution of Respect” printed about the passing of James Madison Coor. This resolution was given by the Dublin Lodge 504 of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons (A.F. & A.M.). [1] James Madison “Matt” Coor is my maternal 3x-great-grandfather. He was born on 13 October 1833 in Copiah County, Mississippi. [2] He married Melissa Ann Welch on 9 October 1856 and they had ten children. [3] Ann died in 1876...