A Family Tapestry

Sunday, July 12, 2015

Retracing Those Steps

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Imagine with me, for a moment, a hypothetical instance one hundred years from now, in which a descendant who never had the pleasure of meet...
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Saturday, July 11, 2015

The One Less Traveled By

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Though the movers and shakers from the Broad River settlement all seemed to prefer Alabama as their destination after departing from Geor...
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Friday, July 10, 2015

The Way They Went

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[T]hese settlers formed the most intimate friendly social union ever known among the same number of persons; how exceedingly active they...
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Thursday, July 9, 2015

Vectors and Migrations

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If one had just arrived in paradise, what could possibly induce a soul to want to leave again? The move to the Broad River area of Georgi...
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Wednesday, July 8, 2015

A New Life in Georgia

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Following the American Revolution, a company of Virginians followed their leader, General George Mathews , to the promise of a fresh start ...
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Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Begin at the Beginning

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Though genealogy is a craft that starts at the end and works its way back toward the beginning of a family's history, in the case of ou...
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Monday, July 6, 2015

Moving On

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What makes people move? More to the point for our current genealogical pursuit, what convinced the ancestors of my matrilineal line to d...
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Jacqi Stevens
It is my contention that, after a lifetime, one of the greatest needs people have is to be remembered. They want to know: have I made a difference? I write because I can't keep for myself the gifts others have entrusted to me. Through what I've already been given--though not forgetting those to whom I must pass this along--from family I receive my heritage; through family I leave a legacy. With family I weave a tapestry. These are my strands.
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