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I’ve been researching an African-American Pegues family and adding its members to WikiTree for a few months now. I do this in collaboration with another WikiTree member, Emma MacBeath, who began working on the family first at the request of a third party.… Read more “The Pegues Family”
If you can trace your ancestry to a famous person, the odds of you also being able to connect to the global family tree on WikiTree go way up. I thought I’d found one such person for myself a few months ago.… Read more “The time I thought I would finally be connected to the global family tree”
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After I was finally able to find the parents of my paternal grandmother’s mother (Fannie Dennis), I quickly hit another brick wall in that line at her mother. According to the earliest record I could find for her mother Mariah (Herod) Dennis (an 1880 US Census record after she was already married), she was born about 1860, which means that she should show up in the 1870 census with her parents.… Read more “Breaking through a brick wall 2”
