When I came across California Voter Registration Records on Ancestry.com a few months ago, I immediately searched for my grandmother’s brother, James Bailey Hankins, but I didn’t expect to learn so much. Uncle Jimmy lived at 11 different addresses from 1924 to 1954 and he wasn’t especially loyal to either major political party. I knew he was […]
Archives for February 2013
This Week in the Family History: Feb 10–16
February 11 William Washington Lanier died in 1892 in Chambers County, Alabama. February 12 Thomas Ramsey, Jr. married Millie Welsh in 1820 in Lincoln County, Kentucky. February 13 Martha “Patsy” Ramsey Taylor died in 1852 in Rockcastle County, Kentucky. Thomas Richard “Dick” Hankins was born in 1880 in Hopkins County, Kentucky. Josiah Love “Joe” Taylor […]
