Scroll through Find A Grave long enough and you’ll notice a pattern: photo after photo of single gravestones, tightly cropped, isolated from the background and lacking context. A grave stone alone fails to show the family connections that genealogists look for in cemeteries. The Trend Burial photography on sites like …
I’m pleased to share the publication of my article, “Members of The Good Templars Lodge #637 at Dry Fork, Sumner County, Tennessee,” which transcribes the membership roll of a temperance organization that formed in Sumner County in the late 1870s. It appears in Middle Tennessee Journal of Genealogy & History, …
I’m delighted to announce that my article “Unearthing the Migration of Benjamin Williams from North Carolina to Kentucky” has been published in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Volume 114, No. 2 (June 2026). The article traces Benjamin Williams (died 1817 in Barren County, Kentucky) from his North Carolina origins through …
I’m pleased to announce the publication of my latest article: “A Forfeited Recognizance Bond and 118 Signatures: An 1805 Legislative Petition Fills Gaps in Anderson County Records.” This article is in the Summer 2026 issue of The Tennessee Genealogical Society Ansearchin’ News. A Juicy Story Often an interesting tale is …
Hazel B. Green, interviewed Ben C. Williams in 1937 for the Federal Writers Project, a Depression-era Works Project Administration (WPA) project. I compared Ben’s interview with documentary evidence in an article published by the Illinois State Genealogical Society. The article is now available in Kinship Papers: Volume 1.Ben was quite …
