Follow the Women
Where I started over two years ago in genealogy research and where I am now are two very different places. My skill set for this work has steadily progressed. Still, I catch myself in frustration when I try to locate evidence of my female ancestors. When I spent a month in August of 2024 in […]
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Harris Neck
The name “Harris Neck” first entered my consciousness when I was a young girl visiting my grandmother. It was mentioned during trips near Savannah until her passing in 2009. Yet, as far as I can recall, I never set foot on the land of Harris Neck. Still, it had been a part of my identity […]
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Land
Part of learning about my family history has focused on learning the counties and towns/cities where past generations lived. My grandmother told me the earliest stories of places, but I couldn’t get a grasp beyond Savannah,GA and Hilton Head, SC: the two locations I remember the most when visiting my grandmother. On trips to Savannah, […]
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Starting with my Grandmother
Putting together a family “tree” is more complicated than I thought. Especially to someone who struggles with basic Excel skills or doesn’t know exactly how to manipulate a plug-in for a website (yet). After attempting some screen shots of trees from the genealogical sites I use, I decided to use Adobe Express to see if […]
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Operating Instructions
Whenever I unbox a new gadget, I often ignore the operation manual. I usually fumble around, perform a bunch of unscripted tactics, and voila, I figure it out. Or not. Then, maybe, I pull out the instructions to witness the breadcrumbs of predictable mistakes I could have skipped had I considered the proper steps, all […]
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Opening the Vault
In my family, I am the unofficial keeper of the family relics. Over the past 30 years, I have also amassed a collection of imperfectly scribbled notes on strewn pieces of old yellow legal paper and notecards that have been tucked away into an old, tall file cabinet—each time staring at me to decipher their […]
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