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But Now I'm Found: March 2013

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Wednesday, March 20, 2013. John Alexander, Civil War Veteran. My paternal great great grandfather John Alexander enlisted at the end of the Civil War in February, 1865 at New Orleans, Louisiana. I am trying to find out what happened at that particular time that allowed him to do so. Up until then he was a slave. John was first mustered into Company G 77. Infantry USCT in March, 1865 and then Company K 10. He applied for an invalid pension in 1890. Sunday April, 14, 2013, the 150th anniversary of the 2nd ...

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But Now I'm Found: April 2015

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Friday, April 24, 2015. Recently it was leaked that Ben Affleck asked Henry Louis Gates to conceal the fact on "Finding Your Roots" that Afflect had slave holding ancestors in his family tree. Affleck said he was "embarrassed" by this. Some people have criticized him for this. Others have commiserated with him. The thing is, if your American fore-bearers go back to the 18th and even 19th century, chances are some of them were slave holders. When "Who Do You Think You Are" aired that Reba McIntire had sla...

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But Now I'm Found: It's Not Easy Being Green

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Tuesday, March 17, 2015. It's Not Easy Being Green. When I was in school, it was the custom to pinch anyone not wearing green on St. Patrick's Day. It had nothing to do with being Irish. I attended a Black segregated public school. However, I would proudly tell my fellow classmates that I really was Irish. This was the oral legend of my family. Irish immigrants didn't have it easy when they first arrived here in America. People looked down on them, discriminated against them, called them "black" amon...

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But Now I'm Found: September 2014

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Monday, September 22, 2014. I'm back in more ways than one. Earlier I "migrated" to another blog site. It was productive, encouraging me to blog on a regular basis. I have decided to return to my original blog, this blog because I have so much history here, literally. So here's to being "found" again. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Tall, tan, not so young any more but still lovely. Freelance writer and educator. Single(a widow much too soon) Three grown children, 2 daughters and a son.

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But Now I'm Found: October 2014

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Monday, October 27, 2014. I'm trying to see if DNA can chip away my brick walls. I was a little disappointed that I wasn't able to come up with anything new after the inspirational conference I had attended. So today I decided to concentrate on my Cotten family mysteries. I continued searching family trees for the Causeys on ancestry.com. I came across a familiar name. The woman who owned one of the Causey family trees was also a match to me through DNA! Wednesday, October 15, 2014. Sometimes I feel like...

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But Now I'm Found: Grains of Truth

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Thursday, February 5, 2015. It turned out that the pension papers were. For my relatives and it gave me more details about John's life. However, it did not give me the name of his slave holder. That was left blank. I had to deduce who it might be from other evidence. I concluded that the slave holder had been a Huffman. This was also the man my aunt always thought was the slave holder. Miriam J. Robbins. Hi, Jennifer,. At AnceStories: The Stories of My Ancestors. February 6, 2015 at 7:46 PM.

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But Now I'm Found: January 2015

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Thursday, January 29, 2015. Frustration [fruh-strey-shuh n] noun. 1 when you get a new DNA match on ancestry and the match has no tree. 2 when your new DNA match has a tree and it is private. 3 when your DNA match has only two persons in their family tree. 4 when your match has over 500 names in their tree and you still don't recognize any surnames. Tuesday, January 27, 2015. I firmly believe that every family historian should write the stories down. Oral traditions were great back in the day but we ...

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But Now I'm Found: Tell the Story

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Tuesday, January 27, 2015. My goal is to finish by April this year. That is an arbitrary and necessary date. Otherwise, I would never stop writing and researching. Whatever I find after this book is published will have to go into another, updated yet incomplete book. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Tall, tan, not so young any more but still lovely. Freelance writer and educator. Single(a widow much too soon) Three grown children, 2 daughters and a son. View my complete profile.