Why did my grandparents drive two hours away from their families to get married?
Gretna Green marriages
Kitty and Her First Husband’s Will
This is another installment in a series of posts about my ancestor Catherine James Bellamy James. You can read from the beginning here: Kitty James & Child Marriage. Lately, I've been working with a John Jacobi James researcher named Mary, who also happens to work in the Gallia County Genealogy office. Woo hoo! She reviewed …
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Kitty and Her Place of Birth
This is post #5 in my exploration of my 3x great-grandmother, who may or may not be Catherine James Bellamy James. You can start at the beginning of this thread here. This post discusses the results of my research to answer the question: Where was Kitty born? All but one of Kitty's census records indicate …
Kitty and the Double Life
Was my third great-grandmother a polygamist?
Kitty and the Two Johns
This is the third entry in an on-going series of pretty much me writing out all of the weird stuff I’m finding about my third great-grandmother, Kitty James Bellamy James. To start this link, click here. This post continues to discuss the research question: What were the names of Kitty's parents? So I narrowed Kitty's …
Kitty James and the Unknown Parents
Where do you start to find the unknown parents of an ancestor?
Kitty James and Child Marriage
In the little free time I’ve had lately, I’ve been researching my 3rd great-grandmother Catherine James. In this post, I try to nail down her birth year.
Mysterious Poisoning
Minnie Benner is my 3rd great-grandmother. Paris green, also known as Schweinfurt green, emerald green, or Vienna green, is an insecticide, rodenticide, and pigment invented in 1814 in Schweinfurt, Germany. Sources: Article: "Mysterious Poisoning," Evansville Journal (Evansville, IN), 17 Mar 1896, p. 1, col. 2, art. 2. Accessed on genealogybank.com, 19 Dec 2019. photo credit: …
And She’s Dead Again
Two weeks ago, I wrote that finding an obituary had resurrected my 2x great-grandmother, Fannie Grace. This post won’t make much sense if you don’t read that post first. I found an obituary of another of Fannie’s brothers. This time Mary, who I believed to be my 2nd great-grandmother, has the last name Elder, has …
A Resurrection
This standard funeral notice is an ASTOUNDING find for me because it resurrected an ancestor that I had presumed dead.
