Category: Ancestry Research
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Scotland Trip Report: Part II
Isle of Skye The Cluanie Inn For the next few days, our home base was The Cluanie Inn. It was our favorite hotel of the trip. Calling it “remote” does not adequately describe its solitude, and the inn is surrounded by hiking trails. Helpful hint: Take the well-marked Cluanie Estate path. As soon as you…
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Westward from Bertie to Haywood
Photo: A section of “Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way” by Emanuel Leutze / As I continue to research my family tree, one question keept coming up: Why did so many of my Bertie County, North Carolina, ancestors load their wagons in the early 1830s and head west to Haywood County, Tennessee? The…
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50th Birthday Genealogy Road Trip
My 50th birthday last week was a great excuse to visit a few places I’ve read about for years but had never seen in person. I gathered content I’ll be posting on my blog for months, but for now I wanted to share a quick overview and some photos. Wilson Library at the University of…
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Lost History: The 1890 Census Records
I am still new to genealogy research and kept noticing a hole in the census records for my Haywood County ancestors in 1890. After a little digging, I learned why. Most of the 1890 federal census population schedules were damaged in a fire at the Commerce Department Building in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 10, 1921.…