I was looking for something else and spotted these records of marriage and divorces in North Carolina Legislative Records during 1807. A Marriage James Smith and Mary Norfleet, both of Halifax County, North Carolina. The legislature recognized their marriage when the legality of their union was questioned. The marriage was …
My recent genealogy road trip was “bookended” with research in Nashville, Illinois (Washington County) and in Nashville, Tennessee. Before heading out I prepped for the trip so I knew what I was looking for at each location and I had reasonable expectations of what I would find. One stop in …
A new article, “Freeman Modglin or Truman Modglin? One Man, One Name, and A Two-Hundred-Year-Old Error,” is now available in print and an online in the Tennessee Genealogical Society’s Ansearchin’ News. Our man Modglin moved from North Carolina to settle in Wilson County, Tennessee. This last week I took an …
I’m working on a family of immigrants dating from the early 1900s. There are many “curve balls” to unraveling their story as they settled into their new homeland. Finding the family in the records entails searching alternative name spellings and nicknames. I didn’t find who I was looking for, but …
