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 …
The Winter issue of the Tennessee Genealogical Society’s Ansearchin’ News is ready for readers. It includes my article “The J. Prior in Nashville Penitentiary in 1860 Was Jonathan Pryor (born 1820-1830).” See the TNGS website. Jonathan’s life was troubled, but through his troubles evidence exists to connect him from just …
Pryor Wives: Stories of Family, Fortune, and Fiasco Pryor Wives is unlike most genealogy books. It does not focus on one family—instead the author looks at women who married into several Pryor families who shared a common surname, but probably did not share blood or share a family tree. The …
I took a field trip to White Plains, New York to access probate files from the Westchester County Surrogate’s Court. On the return trip I saw a historical marker at Armonk, New York. The marker at Smith Tavern commemorates the thousands of French troops who marched past that location during …
An error in a court house record could be a bit of spilled ink or a misspelled name. What happens to research when the clerk of the county court gets confused and says the wrong person is dead? How far down the research rabbit hole does that misinformation send a …
