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Archives for March 2018

Paternal DNA: Confirming Research and Solving Problems

March 24, 2018

  My first experience with DNA testing for genealogy was a Y-DNA test for my brother in 2008 that identified my grandfather’s family and answered questions various members of the family had been trying to answer for 50 years. I did two autosomal tests in early 2011 and soon added one for my mother. Since […]

Strong Woman: Samantha Angeline Petty Hankins

March 11, 2018

Finding strong women in any family tree isn’t difficult. Several in mine came immediately to mind when I saw that was the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks prompt for this week. But I settled on Samantha. Born 3 April 1861 in Dalton, Whitfield County, Georgia to John R. Petty and Margaret E. Thomas, Samantha Angeline […]

Where There’s a Will: Finding Polly Smith’s Father

March 3, 2018

A few years ago, I mentioned in a blog post that I didn’t know the parents of my 3rd great-grandmother, Polly Y. Smith who married James Lanier  29 July 1810 in old Randolph (now Jasper) County, Georgia.1 I wouldn’t call that a brick wall, because I hadn’t really tried to identify her parents beyond a cursory […]

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