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Monthly Archives: November 2009

Daily Journal 29 Nov 2009: The Gunfight!

An exciting evening! When I got home from work, I started reviewing my second great-grandfather Miles Francis Stanley’s file. As I do with each ancester, I plugged his name into Google to see if there was anything “out there” about him. Nothin’. Then I entered his name into the Google Books search engine and hit [...]

Daily Journal 28 Nov 2009: Quality time with my granddaughter!

My granddaughter Stacie and I went to see the new Twilight movie, “New Moon”. Now mind you, before seeing this moving, I have not read any of the books or seen the first movie. Nor am I 14 years old and get all silly and flustered by the young men in this movie. I’m well [...]

Daily Journal 27 Nov 2009

Kinda hung over today from all of yesterday’s wonderful food! Didn’t do much genealogy today. A little RSS reading… I did happen upon a couple of city directory listings for my 2GGF, Miles Francis Stanley, from Mineral Wells, Texas in 1909 and 1920. Pretty cool! I found these at The Portal to Texas History: The [...]

Mr Stanley Goes To Washington!

Well, not the flesh and blood Mr Stanley, but the testimony of my second great-grandfather Miles Francis Stanley did make it all the way to the United States Supreme Court! As long as I have been doing genealogy, I still get so tickled when I make a new discovery! Such a rush! I have begun [...]

85th Edition of the Carnival of Genealogy: Orphans and Orphans

The topic for the next edition of the Carnival of Genealogy is: “Orphans and Orphans” The first type of orphan refers to those ancestors or relatives who lost their parents when they were young. The second type of orphan would be those siblings or cousins of our ancestors whom we think of as “reverse orphans.” [...]