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James Kirker McCartney
My grandmother and I had always wondered about her great-uncle James Kirker McCartney. In the family Bible, his name is written simply as “Kirkir.” I’ve only found him listed in one US Federal Census, the 1870, and in that document he’s called James. Because we had a studio portrait of Kirker, passed down from his…
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Clinton G Wilson, Civil War Veteran
Clinton G Wilson was one of the first ancestors I researched with the help of my grandmother. She had some letters from one of his daughters, so she was able to give me some guidance. Wilson enlisted on August 12, 1862 at Camp Butler near Clear Lake in Sangamon County, Illinois. His family recalled :…
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The Williams family migrates to Washington
In the last half of the nineteenth century, several members of the Williams family migrated across the Mississippi and west all the way to Washington Territory. Most of their extended family would stay in Illinois and Tennessee, involved with the Baptist Church and their communities there, but these siblings were looking for something else in…
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Lawrence Hawkins
Today’s post has very little original research material, and is instead a compilation of the information I have about Lawrence Hawkins, who was the grandfather of Stella McLaughlin, mother of Ray Hurd and June Hurd Juvet. Since much of the information came from his brother, I found it very compelling. [I received pdf files of…
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Jesse Leon Hurd
https://ancestoraweek.com/jesse-leon-hurd/ This week’s post was pretty long. I ended up making it into its own page. Follow the link to read more about Jesse Hurd and view his photos of World War I France.
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An ancestor a week
I decided to add more layers to my genealogy research by choosing a person to write about every week. Imposing a narrative on what I know about their lives makes these people come alive for me and I hope it does for you too.