Category: Kentucky
Families that lived in the state and left records behind there.
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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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Wavetops: James McCullough (Sr.) (1757-1838) When John McCullough died in 1766, he left four orphans without family or support in Rowan County, North Carolina. The courts bound each child to an apprenticeship, each with different terms. In her 1991 Ph.D. dissertation, Johanna Lewis1 noted that of 52 orphans placed as apprentices before 1770, only one…
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A Hard Row to Hoe You might recall I was very excited to find a book documenting this family last year: I finally got to spend some quality time looking at the evidence presented in this book and untangling some of the questions it raises – and when all is said and done, there are…
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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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Teasing meaning from the absence of evidence (part 3) Previously, in Still Finding James Callin, we looked at the Revolutionary War muster rolls, examining whatever they could tell us about him, and we talked about how they loosely support the statements made in George W. Callin’s 1911 Callin Family History. James, last noted in the…
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A valentine for my surname A couple of weeks ago, I had some unexpected time off (thanks, persistent pandemic!) and since my brain was still functional, I decided to use that time to launch a One-Name Study for my surname on WikiTree. (This post is short because I want you to follow that link.) I…
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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…
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posted Friday, November 21, 2014 This piece was adapted for this blog from a longer two-part piece on my Tad’s Happy Funtime blog. That version spends more time on me than is proper for a biographical sketch of my grandfather, Russell Hudson Clark, Sr. (1920-2002), but if you’d like to see that longer version, part…
Mightier Acorns 