Month: August 2025

Joseph Pryor of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama (1767-1851): Notes to Clarify His Pre-Alabama Roots

August 21, 2025

Or, Subtitled: “PROBLEMS HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED WITH AT LEAST ONE PREVIOUSLY VERIFIED PAPER” At the start of this month, I posted an article here that had been published by Roots and Branches, a publication of the Tuscaloosa County Alabama Genealogical Society. As I did so, I noted that the Tuscaloosa Genealogical Society had kindly given … More Joseph Pryor of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama (1767-1851): Notes to Clarify His Pre-Alabama Roots

John Montgomery (abt. 1755? – 1825): Buncombe County, North Carolina, Records

August 16, 2025

Or, Subtitled: Ulster Scots Migration Paths from Pennsylvania to Virginia and on to Western Carolina In my previous set of notes focusing on John Montgomery who died in Lawrence County, Tennessee, in 1825, I cited records showing that, before he moved to Tennessee between June 1815 and 1820, he was in Haywood County, North Carolina. … More John Montgomery (abt. 1755? – 1825): Buncombe County, North Carolina, Records

John Montgomery (abt. 1755? – 1825): Lawrence County, Tennessee, and Haywood County, North Carolina, Records

August 12, 2025

Or, Subtitled: “Our very first people who came from Haywood County, N. C.” As I noted in a posting here several weeks back, I’ve been doing research and compiling sets of notes to assist a group of researchers of Montgomery families in the US with roots in Ulster and Scotland to prove lineages that haven’t … More John Montgomery (abt. 1755? – 1825): Lawrence County, Tennessee, and Haywood County, North Carolina, Records

Additional Notes about Eliza Jane Smith (1790/1800 – 1843) of Louisiana: Problematic Misreadings of Documents at Ancestry Site

August 2, 2025

Or, Subtitled: When a Widow Isn’t a Widow This brief posting is a bit of a footnote to the posting I made a few days back about my recent discovery of burial information for my 3-g-grandmother Eliza Jane Smith (1790/1800 – 1843). As I’ve reviewed my notes for Eliza Jane with this new discovery, I’m … More Additional Notes about Eliza Jane Smith (1790/1800 – 1843) of Louisiana: Problematic Misreadings of Documents at Ancestry Site

Some Notes on the New FamilySearch AI All-Text Search Tool

August 1, 2025

In my posting here two days ago, I noted that this past April, the quarterly newsletter of the Tuscaloosa County Alabama Genealogical Society published an article I had written discussing the new FamilySearch all-text search tool. The article was entitled “A.I. & Genealogical Research: FamilySearch Full Text” and was published in Roots and Branches 50,2 … More Some Notes on the New FamilySearch AI All-Text Search Tool