Genealogy 411
Hearing Voices
Armed with only Grandpa’s name and the names of his parents and siblings, I went searching for my family ancestors. Several hours later, I found him, Harold McDowell, in the 1920 census. He was thirteen and lived with his parents and five siblings in Iowa.
Since that day, ancestors from more branches than you can imagine have been begging me to tell their stories. I love listening to them as I uncover their secrets.
I hope you, too, will enjoy hearing what they have to say…
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Calm yourselves. I know it’s a shock. You haven’t seen hide nor hair from this blog since July of 2017. And now, out of the blue, getting a notice alerting you to its existence… That can be a little unnerving. None-the-less, I’m back. Which is to say I haven’t really been gone, just silent.
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Double Cousins
Remember that old commercial for Certs? Two. Two. Two mints in one. (You youngsters can watch it here.) Well, that’s sort of what happened to Dutch (Harold Seba Taylor, Sr) when it came to cousins. It went something like this…
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Lost Mother… Found
I found Granny’s mother! To be clear, I’m certain that Granny never thought she was lost. But life in the Land of Ancestry Records can be a dangerous place. “Granny” is Nettie Nobia McPhail (McPhaill, McFale—census records show it spelled all three ways), wife to Cyrus Guy McLemore.