GENEALOGICAL
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| Copies of old newspapers have holes which occur only on last names. |
| We've done all the research on your family we can and have found your family tree DOESN'T FORK!! |
| The cheapest way to have your family tree traced is to run for a public office. |
| When my grandson, David, was 3 years old I took him to my brothers grave to plant some flowers. He wanted to know what kind of place this was and when I told him he said "Oh, cemeteries are where dead people live." Can you tell his grandmother is a genealogist? |
| A man once paid a genealogist a lot of money to search his lineage. The researcher discovered that the man's g. grandfather was the first person to be executed when the electric chair was installed in Sing Sing Prison. Undaunted, the man had the genealogist record that his ancestor once occupied the chair of applied electricity at a leading New York institution. |
| Ink fades and paper deteriorates at a rate inversely proportional to the value of the date recorded.! |
| I like the Montana Census which described a settler "Scalped and left for dead by Indians. Hale and hearty now, but hates Indians." |
| I was doing genealogy long before my children were even thought of so they've seen their share of cemeteries. Rrecently when the state of Texas raised the speed limit to 70 I overheard my son say "Great Mom can get to the graveyard faster." |
| A man's wife had died and he was instructing the
undertaker in funeral plans when he said, "I want her buried face down." The undertaker said he had heard some strange requests, but this one was the wildest and asked why "face down." The widower replied, "My wife said that if she died first and I ever looked at another woman she was going to dig her way out and haunt me. Bury her face down and let her dig all the way to China." |
| (From 1876) "Hiram BABER married a daughter of Jesse BOONE. He was Sheriff of St. Charles Co. one term, and was a reckless, fun-loving sort of a man. He built a brick residence in St. Charles, and carved over the door, in large letters; "ROOT HOG, OR DIE" He moved from St. Charles to Jefferson City, and
became one of the leading men of the state. He made a great deal of money and spent it as
freely as he made it. He would often, in braggadocio, light his pipe with bank bills, to
show how easily he could make money and how little he cared for it." |
| In the 1850 Louisiana census a lot of the census workers
got lazy and only listed the first initial of the first name of the residents. After a few
hours of frustration, working in the dark around my fellow family researchers, trying to
discern who was who in the "Goode" family I finally (I hoped) found the person
who I was looking for and I blurted out loud " Hey everybody... I. P. Goode" |
| My family comes from a small county in SouthEast Alabama, and many generations on my mother and father's sides have lived there. The family of my family tree are very intermarried, making me my own 5th cousin, 6th cousin, and 4th cousin twice removed. At my family reunion this past October, my 12 year old son stated that we don't have a family tree... we have a KUDZU VINE. |
| The Land Book you need is the ONLY one burned by General Tarleton when he raided Albemarle County looking for Jefferson and those other "rebels". |
| (From 1876) "Hiram BABER married a daughter of Jesse BOONE. He was Sheriff of St. Charles Co. one term, and was a reckless, fun-loving sort of a man. He built a brick residence in St. Charles, and carved over the door, in large letters; "ROOT HOG, OR DIE" He moved from St. Charles to Jefferson City, and
became one of the leading men of the state. He made a great deal of money and spent it as
freely as he made it. He would often, in braggadocio, light his pipe with bank bills, to
show how easily he could make money and how little he cared for it." |
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