Category: Kentucky
Families that lived in the state and left records behind there.
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Welcome to a wrap-up/overview of the previous eight weeks! What interesting patterns do we see in each generation? Let’s compare them!
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Sometimes progress feels like a step backward. But it is still a step in the right direction.
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The evidence we have suggests hard times and heavy years, but that’s the problem with not having a lot of evidence.
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Of my great-grandparents, David Clark’s biography leaves me with more questions than I can expect to answer. Maybe that’s okay.
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What we know is not always the truth, but what we remember can be, if we are careful about the way we tell the story. Minds and memories are tricky things.
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How digging into the details of a census record took one ancestor from an orphan to part of a family of Baptist ministers in North Eastern Kentucky.
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A Tale of Harassments and Murder Note: this piece was originally published on Projectkin in Feb 2024 in their Member’s Corner. It is being re-published here with permission. Kentucky was not the safest place to live in 1862. Several Southern states seceded from the Union after Fort Sumter, but Governor Beriah Magoffin declared Kentucky to…
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Seeking unknown children can be a roundabout task Last time I talked about this family, I pointed out that Adam Smith (1792-1847) and Experience Garretson (1800-1897) probably had more children than were named in the 1850 Census, based on the 1840 count of their household: Today, I want to build the case that I found…
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Spoiler: it was also called “Smith” I can’t help myself. The focus of today’s post is the Smith family, so my brain immediately and urgently goes to Mary Poppins: Since Adam Smith died in 1847, I don’t think he’ll be coming after me anytime soon. I’ve spent some time lately updating the WikiTree profiles for…
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The family of Sarah Jane (Bellamy) Clark Sarah Jane Bellamy was born in Cabell County, Virginia, on 17 December 1836. She is my maternal grandfather’s paternal grandmother—and she is one of My Sixteen. Since writing about her grandfather, Matthew Bellamy, in The Slaveholders, I have spent some time improving the WikiTree profiles for this family, and most…
Mightier Acorns 