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Physical wooden portrait pieces shaped like a human silhouette linked together by lines on a gray background, image by Freepik
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Marshall County, Mississippi Research and Discoveries

This month’s US Black Heritage 1880 Census Project focus on WikiTree is the state of Mississippi, specifically Alcorn, Lafayette, and Marshall counties. I suggested Lafayette and Marshall (as a member of the USBH Mississippi team) because I’ve previously focused on them (mostly Lafayette because a lot of my more recent paternal ancestors were from there), but I decided to work on Marshall exclusively this month because only 1% of the black people in the 1880 census for Marshall County were recorded on the tracking spreadsheets as of September 1st (out of 18,587 people total).… Read more “Marshall County, Mississippi Research and Discoveries”

4th and 5th great-grandparent possibilities (update)

Ancestry updated my ThruLines again, but decided to use different tree sources for the incorrect suggestions in it (the names and photos are different but they’re the same people as before). Rachel Flood Logan is new, but she’s set in someone’s tree as the mother of Andrew Logan (who is the father of my 2nd-great-grandfather Henry Logan’s enslaver Tyler Logan), so she’s not a match, either.… Read more “4th and 5th great-grandparent possibilities (update)”

The search for Henry Logan’s family

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My paternal 2nd-great-grandfather Henry Logan (1837 – ~1920) was born into slavery in Mississippi. Two out of four of the US Census records I’ve found for him say that his parents were born in South Carolina (the 1870 Census doesn’t have columns for the birthplaces of parents unless they were born outside the US and the 1900 Census says they’re from Mississippi).… Read more “The search for Henry Logan’s family”

4th and 5th great-grandparent possibilities

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I loaded Ancestry’s ThruLines page recently to see if a particular cousin showed up in it so that I could possibly figure out who her parents and grandparents are since their names are private in her tree.… Read more “4th and 5th great-grandparent possibilities”

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