Last week I filled my Facebook news feed with colorful charts showing the birth locations of five to seven generations of friends’ families. The idea was started by J. Paul Hawthorne, author of GeneaSpy and grew as others added different variations including death locations, ages at death, cause of death, religion, and DNA haplogroups. I played along […]
Archives for March 2016
This Week in the Family History: March 27–April 2
March 27 ► 115 years ago: James Bailey Hankins was born in 1901 in Dalton, Hopkins County, Kentucky. [Hankins line] March 30 ► 250 years ago: Winifred Mullins was born in 1766. [Taylor line] April 2 ► 122 years ago: Elmer Dennis Hopkins was born in 1894 in Wallins Creek, Harlan County, Kentucky. [Hopkins […]
William W. Lanier: One Man or Two?
More to the point—was the William W. Lanier who died on 7 Nov 1931 in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, the son of William Washington Lanier and Charlotte T. Jackson? Some people think so based on the online trees that give William and Charlotte’s son that death date along with the wives and children of the […]
This Week in the Family History: March 20–26
March 21 ► 96 years ago: Madison Crawford “Matt” Owens died in 1920 in Freedom, Rockcastle County, Kentucky. [Taylor line] March 25 ► 205 years ago: John Emerson “Jack” Goodloe was born in 1811 in Hopkins County, Kentucky. [Hankins line] ► 35 years ago: Orie Columbus “Lum” Hopkins died in 1981 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, […]
This Week in the Family History: March 13–19
March 15 ► 203 years ago: William Washington Lanier was born in 1813 in Jasper County, Georgia. [McCauley line] ► 86 years ago: James W. “Jim” Hankins died in 1930 in Providence, Webster County, Kentucky. [Hankins line] ► 83 years ago: Mary “Mollie” Bennett died in 1933 in Joppa, Morgan County, Alabama. [McCauley line] March […]
This Week in the Family History: March 6–12
March 6 ► 210 years ago: John Covey Howard was born in 1806 in Knox County, Kentucky. [Hopkins line] March 8 ► 53 years ago: Grant Hopkins died in 1963 in Tucson, Pima County, Arizona [Hopkins line] March 10 ► 237 years ago: Henry Lewis “Harry” Goodloe was born in 1779 in Virginia. [Hankins line] […]
