Maryland Comptroller Tours The Hill
More exciting details about this historic African American neighborhood in this article!
Journaling March -- Better Late Than Never
I not going to be hard on myself, I decided. I'm simply not keeping up with my goal to journal each and every day -- it's been really difficult to fit that into my life. But I still go back and try to fill in the blanks when I do get the chance. I know that I'll enjoy reading through this album years from now and that's why I keep going.
Happy Birthday, Obediah Basham (b. 1760)
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One of my 4th great grandfathers was Obediah Basham, who was born on April 7 in 1760 (or 1758, according to some records) in Cumberland County, Virginia. He was a Revolutionary War soldier and there is a lengthy pension file about him (I still need to transcribe it). Numerous folks have used him as entree into the DAR. He has a FindaGrave page, but no photo of his gravestone in Kentucky (his wife’s is available and it is crudely engraved). Obediah’s daughter Delilah married into the Corley family.
I Completed My March Goals!
April Fools!
I didn’t really come close. Here are my monthly goals (only one of which I met):
- Processing one document/source per week (if not more) into my RootsMagic database.
- Writing at least one blog post per week.
- Reading one genealogy book per month.
- Exploring one new technology per month.
- And taking one genealogy-related trip every two months.
I did get in enough blog posts to average out to one per week, but that’s about it. I only got in a few hours of personal genealogy time last week — the rest of my genealogy research time went to a client project.
Here is the main reason why I didn’t accomplish anything else:
Maggie came into my life 3 weeks ago and has been occupying a lot of my time (not that I’m complaining). She’s a 1.5-year-old Lab-mix rescue and she is the best dog on the planet.
Way-Back Easter: Happy Mom
Digging out more photos from the treasure trove my aunt shared with me last year. Here are some gems of my mom at age 2 or 3 on Easter Sunday:
When Your 2nd Cousin Is Also Your Great Grand Uncle
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I spent yesterday staying out of the way of carpenters doing work in my house while I enjoyed a day off from work. I also took a break from my client projects for a personal genealogy day. I was excited to track down several more distant cousins on my Tennessee side of the family and discovered a branch with multiple connections.
My 3rd great-grandfather Alfred T. Gourley had a granddaughter, Ann Gourley. She married into the McKeehan clan and had a son, Walter, who was my 2nd cousin, 2x removed. He married Sina Hayes, my great grand aunt (her brother, Willam Edmond, was my great-grandfather). This then made Walter McKeehan not only a distant cousin, but my great grand uncle, by marriage!
Alfred Gourley’s daughter was Mary L. Gourley, who married Daniel B. Crow. Their daughter, Della, married William Edmond Hayes.
Calendar Journaling February
While I did manage to get something down on paper for every day in February, I didn't actually journal each and every day. In fact, there were a couple strings of five days or more during which I completely forgot this project! Luckily, I had some tools (my calendar and Facebook timeline) to help me remember what the highlights of each day were so I could go back and add something in.
