I'm a retired academic, with a Ph.D. and M.A. in theology from Toronto School of Theology, an M.A. in english from Tulane University, and a B.A. in English from Loyola University, New Orleans. Published work includes Fiat Flux: The Writings of Wilson R. Bachelor, Nineteenth-Century Country Doctor and Philosopher (Fayetteville: Univ. of Arkansas Press, 2013), and (with William L. Russell and Mary Ryan) A Family Practice: The Russell Doctors and the Evolving Business of Medicine, 1799–1989 (Fayetteville: Univ. of Arkansas Press, 2020).
Or, Subtitled: Dim Digital Documents and Louisiana Conveyance Records I’ve now added several new pieces of information to a posting I made in July 2021 about Jacob Hollingsworth, son of Jacob Hollingsworth and Mary Brooks. On my trip some weeks ago to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, I was able to go … More Jacob Hollingsworth (1775 – 1848): Additions to Previous Posting
Or, Subtitled: “The sale bill belonging to this Estate on making final record could not be found supposed never to have been filed” Another previous posting to which I’ve added substantial information I found during my recent research trip to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City: this posting I made in April 2002 … More Robert Brooks (1780 – 1847): Additions to Previous Posting
Or, Subtitled: Deeds and More Deeds In the work I did recently at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, I went through the deed books of Bastrop and Williamson County, Texas, to fill in gaps in my research on Charles Wesley Brooks, son of James Brooks and Nancy Isbell. As this previous posting … More Charles Wesley Brooks (1829 – 1896): Additions to Previous Posting
Or, Subtitled: Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative Sometimes our searches for genealogical records yield negative results. That is, we search for material we hope or even expect to find in vital records, land records, court records, etc., and find that no such material is there. Part of the process of genealogical research is noting … More Ruth Brooks (1775/1780 – 1837 and Husband John Greenwood, and Mary Rice (1776/8 – abt. 1825) and Husband Joshua Wilson: Additions to Previous Postings
Or, Subtitled: The Value of Land Records to Pinpoint When Families Moved Hither and Yon Here’s some more material I’ve added to a previous posting after I did research recently at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and had access there to records locked to people accessing the FamilyHistory site via our home … More Margaret Brooks (1772 – 1857) and Husband Joseph Day: Additional Material
Or, Subtitled: Thomas Whitlock Again — A Bit of Backwards Sleuthing In my work of the preceding two weeks, retrieving material at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City that I cannot access from FamilySearch via my home computer, I also found and added to a previous posting the plat for Thomas Whitlock’s 369-acre … More Thomas Whitlock (abt. 1745 – 1830): Additional Material, Montgomery County, Virginia, Years
Or, Subtitled: Tracking Parrish v. Guthery in Bedford County, Virginia, Court Minutes I recently reported here that I had found a record for Hannah Phillips Whitlock, wife of Thomas Whitlock (abt. 1745 -1830) in Bedford County, Virginia, court minutes in July 1769. Minutes of Bedford County’s court of common pleas for 26 July 1769 state … More Hannah Whitlock, Bedford County, Virginia, Court Minutes, July 1769: Additional Material
Or, Subtitled: And more new material to add to old postings Here’s another posting to which I added material in the past two weeks as I did research at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, adding material to previous postings here when I had access to documents that are under lock and key … More Margaret Brooks (1803 – 1855) and Husband Ransom Van Winkle: Additional Material
Or, Subtitled: More new material added to a previous posting Here is another addition I’ve made to a previous postings on this blog, after my visit to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City gave me access in the past two week to documents previously locked to me as I worked at my home … More Benjamin Benton Hollingsworth (abt. 1785 – 1844): Additional Material
Or, Subttitled: There’s always more to be found in historical rexearch Another interruption to my series of postings about Thomas Whitlock (abt. 1745 -1830): During the past two weeks, I did research at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. One of my research goals on this trip there was to retrieve material I … More Thomas Jefferson Brooks (1835/8 – 1862): Addendum and Corrections to Previous Posting
BEGATS AND BEQUEATHALS 