Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's Saturday Night again - Time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision. 1) Pick an ancestor, any ancestor. What do you know about them? What source type(s) do you have for each item? Answer the 20 questions below about your chosen ancestor. 2) …
Category: Barren County
Green River Land
While trying to find a deed for 50 acres of land on the Marrowbone that I think my ancestor, James Crawford may have owned, I was trying to find the original land entry. Unfortunately, I haven't found any land entries or deeds for this land. However, while looking at land entry records in Green County, …
Tax / Deed Puzzle
Have you ever had a clue from one document that should lead you to another document, but it doesn't? That's my case with my James Crawford research in the early 1800s. For background, my ancestor, James Crawford, married Sally Duggins in Garrard County, Kentucky in 1799. By 1811 he is living in Preble County, Ohio. …
Friday Find
Does your FAN club ever surprise you? Have you ever found a new connection between members of your FAN club? I've recently been paying more attention to Moses Dooley and his family since he is in the same locations as my James Crawford. As I'm starting to seriously research Moses Dooley and his family, I …
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun
It's Saturday Night - time for more Genealogy Fun! Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible music here) is to: 1) What genealogical discovery surprised you? [Thank you to Linda Stufflebean for suggesting topics!] This question almost stumped me. However, thinking back thru my research, there are some records that provided a surprising bit of information. …
James Crawford Attorney?
Do you struggle with same name issues? If you are a regular reader of my blog, then you know that my genealogy is plagued by same name issues. One of those names being James Crawford. Thus, when I find a document for a James Crawford in a county where my ancestor lived, I can't be …
Douglass Land on Beaver Creek
Do 'bright shiny objects' cause you to change direction with your genealogy research? That's where I find myself right now: chasing those bright shiny objects versus working on my stated goals. So, what has me distracted? My Crawford puzzle of course! I've recently been updating my research of my 3rd great grandfather, Nelson Crawford -- …
New Connection
In your genealogy research, do you have a FAN (Family Associates, Neighbors) club? If so, do you ever see a name and question whether to add him/her to your FAN club? If so, that's how I felt about Moses Dooley. It was like that name, Moses Dooley, kept cropping up in different places and times. …
Who Is This James Crawford?
Have you ever run across a record in a county you've been researching and have no idea how the person in the record fits with known families in that area? Well, that's my situation -- and it is anoter James Crawford. James and Martha Crawford sold land in Barren County, Kentucky. Tax lists for Barren …
Using Land to Verify Heirs
ne of the challenges I regularly face when researching my Crawford brick wall is trying to verify the identity of a James Crawford. That is the case with my attempt to rule out David Crawford of Barren County, KY as the father of my ancestor, James Crawford. The 1812 will of David Crawford indicates he …