Do you remember learning about the scientific method in school? While I've never done any serious scientific research, I taught and used the scientific method as a high school science teacher. The scientific method is similar to the genealogy proof standard. It all starts with an observation that leads to a question and then searching …
Category: North Carolina
Friday Finds
Continuing to share items given to me by Mrs. Mildred Barby, a BRILES and RUSH descendant, today's item is the obituary of Mrs. Annie Jane Spencer, mother of Mrs. J. L. Briles. The date and newspaper which published this obituary is unknown. ObituaryMrs. Annie Jane Spencer Died at Ellerbe on Last Wednesdayat Home of Her …
Friday Finds
Today's find is again from the notebook of Briles/Rush clippings and assorted information given to me by Mrs. Mildred Barby. Mildred was a descendant of Branson Briles who is buried in Wilson County, Kansas. Mildred was an avid researcher of anything / everything related to the BRILES or RUSH families of Randolph County, North Carolina. …
Dower Rights
As you research in different locations, do you ever make assumptions about the records in the new area based on your previous research experiences? That would be me when it comes to working with land records! Over the years, I've used a lot of deeds for the sale of land to help separate men of …
DNA Haplogroup
Thanks to some updates to the yDNA test I manage, my Crawford line (James Crawford - born 1772, died 1854) has been assigned a new Haplogroup: R-A13336. Previously, we had been grouped in the larger R-M269 Haplogroup. According to a Crawford project administrator, I also share the Y30725 terminal SNP with another match. It is …
Identifying Parents
Have you had a set of parents for an ancestor in your tree for years when you discover another researcher has a different set of parents? I recently made that discovery for my ancestor Sarah Rush Briles (KP93-T9C) on Family Search. Seeing this other set of parents made me question whether I had made a …