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New England Historic Genealogical Society

Tonight I received the announcement from the New England Historic Genealogical Society that they are about to release the latest update to their web site at www.americanancestors.org.  I don’t know much more than that at this time, but what I can tell you is that you can register for an instructional webinar that will be…
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“If It’s Online…It’s True” — Abraham Lincoln

The whimsical quote above is something I found somewhere…probably online… and I thought I’d share it with you. I was hoping it would be a humourous segue into this subject. It occurred to me as I was watching WDYTYA, that if anyone took a tally of what was discovered on line, specifically by the show’s…
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Hezekiah’s Farm

This link is to an aerial view of what was my 4th great grandfather’s farm in Alabama. http://www.findaspring.com/locations/north-america/usa/robinson-hollow-spring-elkmont-alabama/. It’s located on Robinson Hollow along Robinson Road near Elkmont, Limestone Co, Alabama where you’ll find Robinson Family Cemetery. After marrying Anne Grantham who died young and then his sister-in-law Tabitha Grantham, Hezekiah Robinson (or Robison or…
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Can I fix it?

Granted, this is a genealogy blog.  And I rarely post non-genealogy subjects.  However, I’ve been working on this for 3 days and it’s a bit frustrating! The goal was to put my website and my blog “under one roof” so to speak.  The web host I used for my website was GoDaddy with whom I…
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Dark, cloudie and cold…Tuesday, March 11, 1913

Today was dark cloudie and cold with a little snow fall. Cullerne and I in the car all alone. We did nothing all morning In the afternoon I copied a few notes. After supper Arthur came over too the car to fix his album staz till 9:30 then I went to bed. I don’t know…
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A little warmer today! Friday, March 7, 1913

Friday, March 7, 1913 “Lest We Forget” Weather a little colder Cullerne Lee and I went out in the afternoon and levels for a ditch west of bridge about 1 1/2 Got through about 4:30 PM Cullerne took the level to town to get it fixed

“Lest We Forget” Thursday, March 6, 1913

Wow! Am I behind! I’m going to get this up to date tonight…I hope! Lest We Forget, Thursday, March 6, 1913: Weather fine and warm. We three all stayed in the car all day. Cullerne did a little work in the office with Walton in Edmon[ton] After supper we went uptown to play pool. Art…
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“…and the level was out of order…” March 4, 1913

We started to work Cullerne Lee and I got out in the field and the level was out of order and we had to come back to the car in the afternoon we had Louis come out with us and we made him help us. at night he was pretty tired of the job we…
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Monday, March 3, 1913

“Lest We Forget” Weather very warm thawed all day. In the afternoon we all went to work on a drain. Walton, Cullerne, Arthur, Davis and myself work all afternoon got home at 6:30 feeling very hungry

Sunday, March 2, 1913

Weather dark and cloudy all day but warm. I was all alone in the car all day. I started to wash about 9 oclock and finished about 3 oclock After that I work on my album till supper time After that Arthur and I went to church And here’s another shot from “The Album”…by the…
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