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.
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...
We’re Gonna Party Like It’s…1950?!?!
Preparing for the release of the 1950 census records I’m excited for 1950 because of the census! Some people get excited when a new cell phone drops but genealogists get excited when new records become available! Imagine the family historians cutting a rug when the...
My 10th Cousin is Attila the Hun!
Not really but we’ve all heard some kind of far fetched family tale or rumor – your family comes from royalty, your 4x great grandmother was Pocahontas, or your 10th cousin was Attila the Hun. Believe it or not, there might be a bit of truth in every tall tale. As we...
Tanya Teat Foreman, Genealogist
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Richlands, NC, 28574, US,
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tanya@familymattersgenealogy.com