Category: Boyd County, KY
Families that lived in the county and research done there.
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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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Not everyone will make you proud My maternal grandfather, Russ Clark, did not like to talk about his family history. He loved to tell tales of growing up in Depression-era Arkansas and Kentucky, but he rarely said anything specific about his family. He had one brother, Jerry, who he seemed to like, but all he…
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No, not that one – the older one I feel like we all say this a lot, but: Don’t accept unverified research until you’ve checked out the sources. I don’t know who did the research on my Clark family before I started looking into genealogy, but I was given a tree that showed Amos Clark…
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Travels Through the Places They Knew We weren’t supposed to be here, but Hurricane Helene washed out parts of the Interstate, so we took a more Northern route. Our original itinerary took us from San Antonio to Nashville on day one—a 15-hour sprint followed by a leisurely 12-hour leg to the house in Baltimore via…
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Going four generations back to find another line This surname can be found among my Sixteen great-great-grandparents. We have to go that far back to find the first May: Mary Frances May – 30 Oct 1858 – 19 Mar 1882 Mary (May) Reynolds was the maternal grandmother of my maternal grandfather, Russ Clark. Her parents…
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a quick overview of my work on this surname Vicie Clark was something of a mystery to me for a long time. I only recently found records that tied her to her parents – but from there, I’ve been able to assemble a lot of information about her siblings, cousins, aunts, and uncles. Mary Ann…
Mightier Acorns 