Index to Georgia Wills and Estates
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Thursday, September 5, 2019
7 States with Genealogy Records Online
Georgia Pioneers (8 Genealogy Websites) has wills, estates, traced families etc in AL, GA, KY, NC, SC, TN and VA. In particular, our Virginia collection contnues to grow, representing the oldest surviving county wills and estates, from 1600s to about 1800.
Index to Georgia Wills and Estates
Index to Georgia Wills and Estates
Friday, May 24, 2019
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Friday, January 18, 2019
Why you Need to Visit State Archives and Regional Libraries #genealogy #georgiapioneerscom
There is Good Reason to Visit State Archives and Regional Libraries
Genealogy Tips by Jeannette Holland Austin
Regional Libraries and State Archives are still a good source for the researching genealogist. They have tons of information not available online. Certain public libraries are in the process of creating excellent web pages, they still operate under the budget system. Genealogists have always known this fact and donated materials when possible. You are likely to discover folder contributions inside filing cabinets as well as on microfilm. The old fiche system is going away. Yet, if you look around, libraries still have some fiche collections. People used to publish their books, then have the Mormon Church microfiche it. This is how such a vast collection of family genealogies amassed. Genealogists also took their genealogy to State Archives where it was microfilmed and then added to the general collection. . . . more . . .Index to Georgia Wills and Estates
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Friday, January 11, 2019
Reasons to Examine Old Documents #georgiapioneerscom #genealogy
Good Reasons to Personally Examine Old Documents
Genealogy Tips by Jeannette Holland AustinPeople write some interesting stuff in their wills! Before we had the Internet, a convenient method of discovering the heirs was to read "abstracts" of wills, estates, deeds and marriages which were published in book. This tremendous undertaking by the authors of genealogy was insurmountable in brilliance. It saved the researcher a great deal of time. But now that we have access Internet to full documents on Georgia Pioneers. Reading the entire document is a boon to genealogists for a number of reasons. First and foremost, the heirs are mentioned with the details of their specific inheritance, and relationship to the deceased. Second, some of our previous assumptions taken from the abstracts can be clarified. Third, we can discover new information. And fourth, all the details are included, some of which the abstracter did not include because it was not clearly discernible on the old microfilm equipment. _____________________________________________________________________________ Images of Old Wills and Estates are available on (8 Genealogy Websites - includes records in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia).
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Friday, November 30, 2018
The First LWT probated in Georgia !
FIRST WILL IN GEORGIA! The Last Will and Testament of Button Gwinnett is digitized and available to members of Georgia Pioneers
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Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Preserve the Old Traditions and Values
Preserve the Old Traditions and Values
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If they traced back several generations of their lineage and found some brave patriots who loved freedom and the right to worship so much they they gave their lives and fortunes for it, perhaps a greater appreciation of former generations would awaken them from the deep sleep of ignorance and stupidity.
Perhaps it is up to the old folks to restore peace, love and appreciation for those who came before us by writing more articles and telling more stories on the Internet of how the ancestors sacrificed everything for their posterity! Then, while the disruptor's are wasting their youth spouting anger, marching in parades, littering our streets, vandalizing homes and stores, etc., we will be writing the history of today, of how much we still care for our traditions and values.
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Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Look for the Names of your Ancestors on Monuments
Look for the Names of your Ancestors on Monuments
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The cuneiform writing of the Sumerians, Egyption hierglyphs, Cretan hieroglyphs, Chinese hieroglyphs, Indus script and the Olmec script of Mesoamerica are but a few methods used in the preservation of historical events and populations. Not to mention monuments, gravestones, footstones, markers, obelisks, plaques and cairns which were included in ancient cities, towns and kingdoms across the map. And America came along and adopted that same practice.
Once, while visitiing the Gwinnett County Court House, I noticed a monument in front which told about the militia driving an Indians war party from Georgia in 1834. The list of those who fought included the children of one of my ancestors! For years I had searched for the names of his children and here was the date and place of an event which recorded their deaths! The monuments are a great help to remembering historical events which occurred in other times.
That makes the vandelism and destruction of our historical monuments as one of the worst atrocities in all the history of mankind on this earth!
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Thursday, November 8, 2018
When the Computer is Not the Answer to Genealogy
When the Computer is Not the Answer to Genealogy
The modern age of technology is wonderful! However, we must not rely upon genealogy programs to find the ancestors. Everyone knows that tracing the family roots is a tedious process involving many long years of hard work. To the new researchers out there: one cannot just sign up somewhere and expect to find the family tree. Should you think that this is the case, the work itself is riddled with errors. For this reason connecting to a World Tree is not advisable. One must keep their errors to themselves, not share them! That is, until they are resolved with factual evidence. Otherwise, in the end, that World Tree will be a trash dump no one wants to tackle. Already the term "junk genealogy" has emerged and cleanup is near impossible. The computer programs of today merging data are not cutting it. Hence, human beings must continue to control genealogical research and maintain it privately on a simple computer program.
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Thursday, November 1, 2018
When the Computer is Not the Answer to Genealogy
When the Computer is Not the Answer to Genealogy
The modern age of technology is wonderful! However, we must not rely upon genealogy programs to find the ancestors. Everyone knows that tracing the family roots is a tedious process involving many long years of hard work. To the new researchers out there: one cannot just sign up somewhere and expect to find the family tree. Should you think that this is the case, the work itself is riddled with errors. For this reason connecting to a World Tree is not advisable. One must keep their errors to themselves, not share them! That is, until they are resolved with factual evidence. Otherwise, in the end, that World Tree will be a trash dump no one wants to tackle. Already the term "junk genealogy" has emerged and cleanup is near impossible. The computer programs of today merging data are not cutting it. Hence, human beings must continue to control genealogical research and maintain it privately on a simple computer program.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Lowest Genealogy Rate for Seniors
Lowest Rate for Senior Genealogy
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Thursday, October 25, 2018
Kelvin Grove House
Kelvin Grove House on St. Simon's Island
The Kelvin Grove property was purchased by Thomas Cater of Liberty County in 1798 from John Titus Morgan. It may have originally been part of the estate of the daughter of William McIntosh, Margery, who married James Spalding. Today the US Coast Guard Station sits upon the original Kelvin Grove land as well as the King and Prince Hotel. Source: Kelvin Grove Plantation 1736-1986 by Huie, Murphy, Wilcox (1986).
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Thursday, October 18, 2018
The McIntosh Treaty Chest
The McIntosh Treaty Chest
William McIntosh was a son of John McIntosh Mohr who came over with General Oglethorpe. William married a Creek princess. This chest was used for treaties with the Indians and may have been in the possession of the Highlanders at the Battle of Bloody Marsh. It is in possession of Walter B. Dunwody, a direct descendant of William McIntosh, cadet at the Battle of Boody Marsh and grantee of the land. Source: Kelvin Grove Plantation 1736-1986 by Huie, Murphy, Wilcox (1986).Index to Georgia Wills-See Names of your Ancestors
The Flaw of Elizabeth Warren "Pocohontas" Claim of Cherokee Ancestry
The Flaws of the Elizabeth Warren "Pocahontas" Claim and DNA Testing
There were many tribes of North American Indians who, although they were wiped-out by conquering tribes, some members survived by merging. This is the situation as they crossed over into the Western territories of the United States. In 1903, the Dawes Commission asked for applicants of those persons who thought that they had as much as 1/32nd blood-lineage to apply for free land in Oklahoma. The key was that their ancestor needed to be listed on one of the Indian Rolls. A multiplicity of Indian Rolls were kept from 1818 to 1832 by the various tribes. In other words, they knew the identify of their people. I get requests to find the marriage of a white man who married an Indian. It was uncommon for the white man to marry a squaw (mostly found among Indian traders); and if he did, the marriage was not recorded in county records as he was unwelcome among whites. Further, during 1832 and 1833 when the Cherokees were driven out of North Carolina and Georgia, the white traders did not go. So now, we have over 32,000 applicants, most of whom did not qualify for the Oklahoma land. I personally read many of the applications and found them vague and full of hearsay. In other words, they could not prove their lineage in 1903.
Interestingly, the descendants of these same people (some 39.33 generations later) might want to try a DNA test should a company advertise that they had sampled the Cherokees in North America!
Meanwhile, the task of searching the Indian Rolls is still advisable.
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Thursday, October 11, 2018
Military Road on St. Stimon's Island
Military Road on St. Simon's Island
General Oglethorpe established a fort on the northern part of the island in 1738 and a smaller fort on the southern tip where the lighthouse was later built which was adjoined by Military Road. The Colonial Records of Georgia by Candler describes this road as being due east and crossing Gully Hole Creek at its narrowest point. A personal visit to this area suggests that this may have been the entrance through a stockade fence leading inside the town. There are cement several graves rising above the ground. Although the inscriptions are no longer discernible, the fact is (according to Candler) there were deaths occurring as early as 1741. After crossing Gully Hole Creek and the marsh, the road swung to the southeast, crossing the present (Frederica) Road to the south end just north of Obligation Pond which touched the eastern shore of St. Simon's where the present settlement of Harrington is located. From this point, it followed the edge of the marsh to the site of the Battle of Bloody Marsh."The inhabitants of the Town went out on the 25th September 1738 with the General and cut a road through the woods down to the Soldiers Fort (Fort St. Simon's) in a straight line, so that there is open communication from thence; they performed this work in three days, tho' it is near 6 miles through thick woods." Source: Gentlemen's Magazine (London) January 1839. Very little of the original road remains today.
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Saturday, October 6, 2018
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Thursday, October 4, 2018
Old Christ Church
Old Christ Church
The old Christ Church on Frederica was organized by John and Charles Wesley in 1736, but not built until about 1808. It was destroyed by the forces of General Sherman during the War Between the States. For a long while, the settlers of Savannah and St. Simon's Island did not have a church building. Indeed, during the colonial era while Oglethorpe's troops were still on the island (they left about 1742 after winning the land war with Spain and returned to England), open air services were given by John Wesley whose efforts went unattended and unappreciated. The complaints against Charles Wesley included the fact that he frowned on getting drunk and shooting up the town after dark. Brothers, John and Charles Wesley were unsuccessful in acquiring public assistance for the construction of a church building.Index to Georgia Wills-See Names of your Ancestors
Thursday, September 27, 2018
The Easier Road to Genealogy #georgiapioneerscom #gagenealogy
The Easier Road to Genealogy
An easier method of tracing ancestors is available should one study the history of the times. Sure, there are the standard history books. However, those books provided in schools, libraries and elsewhere do not begin to describe the history of any given era. Because it is the people themselves who make history. A few characters who fought in the Revolutionary War or made laws, does not begin to describe the real history! The key is to find the old neighborhood. In other words, where the families resided, neighbors and friends who witnessed their deeds, married their daughters, and labored on farms, developing a better way of life. One can learn the names of ancestors, but what did those people accomplish and who were they? County records provide interesting answers but to glean the details one must examine every possible record!Index to Georgia Wills-See Names of your Ancestors
Thursday, September 20, 2018
The Romance of John Wesley
The Romance of John Wesley
Mrs. Wesley of Lincolnshire, England had seven sons who were ministers of the Gospel. When General Oglethorpe visited the family in Epworth to convince the lady to send one of her sons to Georgia, she declared that she regretted that she only had her two youngest sons to give to the cause, the others already engaged. They were clerics of the new religion of Methodism. It was catching on, but still unpopular. On the voyage over, . . . more . . .Genealogy Records in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia
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Wednesday, June 27, 2018
The Romance of John Wesley
The Romance of John Wesley
Mrs. Wesley of Lincolnshire, England had seven sons who were ministers of the Gospel. When General Oglethorpe visited the family in Epworth to convince the lady to send one of her sons to Georgia, she declared that she regretted that she only had her two youngest sons to give to the cause, the others already engaged. They were clerics of the new religion of Methodism. It was catching on, but still unpopular. On the voyage over, the brothers had compassion for the savages and a strong desire to teach the Gospel to the Creeks in the region. John Wesley settled in Savannah and Charles Wesley in Frederica. more ... Genealogy Records in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia
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Thursday, April 5, 2018
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Will you Allow AI to Construct your Genealogy?
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Imagine yourself instructing your computer to assemble a pedigree chart based on the information you provide. As AI draws upon information across thousands of genealogy platforms and assembles the data, would you trust the results? If IT had access to all of the world's genealogy records, it would probably deliver a fairly accurate genealogy. The brick walls and suppositions in our work would be analyzed from a mathematical standpoint. Let us face the fact that math is a true science. I can imagine that when AT hit the brick walls, that he would provide us with a logical choice of the data. Our decision, then, would culminate from the mathematical prowness of a computer. But what about the tidbits of data stored inside our own brain, a sort of family knowledge? Aunt May always said that our family came to America from Germany, for one example. There are countless others couched inside of our own brain, not that of IT.
The fastest computer in the world uses about 40,000 processors with 260 cores each. That is more than 10 million processing cores running in parallel. Although each of these cores has less power than the intel processor on your desktop, the entire machine delivers about the same power as the human brain. Interesting. Nevertheless, that does not mean that AI is ready for big things such as robot control. Far from it. This massively parallel architecture still presents enormous programming challenges in all of the processes powered together. The growth of the IT industry demands the use of custom microchips, more parallelism, more sophistocated software, and even the possibility of entirely new ways of doing computing. for more articles, Join the Genealogy History Blog
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