The Family Jewels newsletter will teach you great tips to improve your genealogical research. We will also mix in some African American history because we all need to know our history.
The Digital Divide
Photos of the Future Last week's blog discussed decluttering photos on our phones. This rolls into this week's blog of digital photos. The current generation is technology savvy and believe and love anything digital. So where does that leave us old school printed...
Organizing Pictures
For last week's blog, I organized all my photo boxes which was great! This week, I've moved on to organize the pictures on my phone! Smartphones make taking pictures easier than ever. Before them, I had to make a conscience decision to lug my bulky 35mm camera with me...
A Photo is Worth 1000 Words
Importance of Photos Photos are important to genealogists and family historians. We work long hours organizing, researching, and archiving family stories, documents and pictures for future generations to enjoy. We keep the printed and digital photos for our future...
The Green Book – Trip Advisor for Black Folks
1962 The Negro Motorists' Green Book June 2022 Newsletter Revisited I featured information about The Negro Motorist Green Book or the Green Book in my June 2022 newsletter. Many people don't know that the Green Book was more than a 2018 movie with the same title. The...
Names are important, especially in Genealogy
"It Ain't What They Call You, It's What You Answer To." - W.C. Fields Common Surnames in the United States in 1990 W.C. Fields understood the complexity of names. My April newsletter touched on the importance of names. Your name links you to your ancestors. My...
Randomness is My Specialty – Last Part
Onslow County History This is the last installment in my series of randomness and researching local history. From the last post, we discovered an African American farmer named John Grice buried in the Caucasian Huggins Family Cemetery. I tried to dive in to find his...
Randomness is My Specialty (Part 3)
death date 10 Sep 1879 We continue the genealogical research from the last time with two broken headstones left (https://familymattersgenealogy.com/?p=352). This was going to be a challenge. The third headstone, the broken headstone, only had the death date showing....
Randomness is My Specialty (Part 2)
Researching Local Onslow County History Let's pick up where we left off, shall we? In the previous post, I was exploring Onslow County history (read https://familymattersgenealogy.com/?p=339 if you need to catch up). I found some random gravestones in a random place;...
Randomness is My Specialty (Part 1)
Huggins Cemetery located at Old Bridge and Railroad Streets in Jacksonville NC.
The Party Continues – the 1950 Census will drop April 1st!
Party hearty to the 1950 census beat! My last post discussed making a list to prep for the 1950 census release which should be on everyone’s radar. If you are Generation X, your parents and their siblings are on this record as well as your grandparents and great...
Tanya Teat Foreman, Genealogist
8201 Richlands Hwy #244
Richlands, NC, 28574, US,
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tanya@familymattersgenealogy.com