The World is Still in Commotion
I wrote this piece exactly five years ago today. I have grown as a genealogist and parent, but I notice the world is yet struggling. I...
US Civil War Pension Payment Card for Berry Leech, 135th Colored Infantry
Now that Sharon Pittman Egelhofer has found us and will represent the family of Berry Leech, we will give her the last record we have...
US Civil War Service Record of Berry Leech from 135th Colored Infantry
This is comes from the "Carded Records Showing Military Service of Soldiers Who Fought in Volunteer Organizations During the American...
Berry Leech 83, Died in Robeson County, NC and was in 135th US Colored Infantry
In "They Served in 135th US Colored Infantry from Fayetteville and Cumberland County, NC on March 1865," I published the names of the...
They Served in 135th US Colored Infantry from Fayetteville and Cumberland County, NC on March 1865
I have not yet found any ancestors who I can say served in the Union Army during the Civil War, but I do not think it matters too much...
Where is Grandpa? Oral History Interview of Ellis McClure
There is no one left, but Ellis to tell the stories as he remembers going for visits to his grandpa and grandma's farm. I remember asking...
Finding Enslaved Ancestors
Edna Vance by Emory Wallace Vance, Sr. This is a picture of my mom, Edna Vance Foster, when she was playing on her parent’s farmland in...
Ellis McClure Recalls a Visit to Birmingham, Alabama with His Dad and Howard Echols in 1956
Listen to a recording of this story: The article Documented Columbus McClure's Probate Record in Alabama, Wills and Probate Records,...
Documented Columbus McClure's Probate Record in Alabama, Wills and Probate Records, 1753-1999
"Prominent Woodlawn Citizen is Victim of Crossing Crash," Columbus McClure's death, Newspapers.com, "The Birmingham Reporter,"...
Have You Seen 'Father Unknown' by Filmmaker, David Quint?
Sometimes you see that one film that most people can truly relate to. That is what the film, Father Unknown, is to me. If you are...
