Have you ever tried to find the source of a newspaper clipping shared as an image on Ancestry? While updating my research for my 4th great grandfather, John Burke, I came across a newspaper clipping regarding his estate. This clipping is about a probate case involving the descendants of John Burke (see Saturday Night Genealogy …
Category: Bland
Friday Find
Bland Marriages Do you have photocopies from books that you hope provide information on one of the brances in your tree? Today's Friday Find is such a set of records. It is marriage records from early Virginia for the BLAND surname. While my BLAND line likely goes back to Virginia, I hven't found a connection …
Bland Letter
Have you ever clicked on an Ancestry Story hint to find that it circles back to your own research? That is what happened while going thru hints for Osborn Bland. When I clicked on the Indian Story, it took me to a 'story' that contains a link to my old website. Fortunately, I have all …
Death Date
Do you have an ancestor in your tree whose death date and place is unknown? That's been my struggle with my 3rd great grandmother, Elizabeth Ann Bland Burke. Elizabeth's husband, Henry Burke died in 1845. He is buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery in Weston, Missouri. Elizabeth Burke is found on the 1850 and 1860 census …
Elkanah Bland
#Friday Find Instead of posting about some record I have buried in my files, this post is about a recent find. While trying to locate court records for the estate of Elizabeth Bland Burke in the Platte County, Missouri records, I was also following leads to BLAND records since some of her siblings migrated from …
Burke Findings
Do you ever struggle trying to verify the death of a female ancestor? I've struggled for years with Elizabeth Ann Bland Burke. Elizabeth and her husband Henry F. Burke were living in Platte County, Missouri in 1840 with three young children. Henry Burke died in 1845 leaving behind his wife Elizabeth and 5 children: Angelina …
Crossing Paths 2
As you are researching your ancestors do you ever find a family living in the same county as ancestors or cousins from a totally different branch of your tree? That's been my experience recently. Yesterday, while following up on a comment on a blog post about a reader's potential connection to my Garrard County, Kentucky …
Establishing Death
As I'm working on a narrative report for Angelina Jane Burke Currey, one of my 2nd great grandmothers, I've discovered several data clean-up issues. I've already tackled the shared fact issue by converting the shared land and court facts to individual facts. Today, I was working on improving the citations for some of those land …
Adams on Sugar Creek
Garrard County, KentuckyDeeds 1787-1902; indexes, 1899-1960 Vol. C 1793-1796Family Search DGS 183284 Film 008141322 Book C page 554 - image 291 This Indenture made this 6th day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety five Between Charles Bland of the County of Madison and State of Kentucky of …