Or, Subtitled: Not all veterans survived the war after they returned home This is the fourth in a series of memoirs I’m compiling, memoirs that focus on the World War II service of my father, his brother, and my mother’s brother and half-brother. This posting will talk about the WWII experiences of my mother’s half-brother … More A Series of WWII Memoirs (4): William Carl Simpson (1908-1947)
Or, Subtitled: “We lived in these tents before they finished our new barracks” In a posting I made yesterday, I explained that I’m currently compiling a series of memoirs of the World War II service of my father and my uncles. The memoirs draw on information shared with me as family stories in my growing-up … More A Series of WWII Memoirs (2): Henry Carlton Lindsey (1918-1988)
“Or, Subtitled: “No one will ever know how that war scarred the men of my generation” With discussions in the news recently of what constitutes good soldiers, heroic ones, coupled with discussions of whether fascism is on the march again after many of us thought it had been decisively set back if not defeated in … More A Series of WWII Memoirs (1): Benjamin Dennis Lindsey (1920-1969)
Or, Subtitled: “In putting away the dead we also put ourselves away” This posting is not precisely a genealogical posting. It’s a genealogy-adjacent posting, however. It is, in some ways, a gloss on my previous posting reporting on my research several weeks ago in the National Library of Ireland in Dublin, and the information I … More Patrick Joyce on Why We Should Remember Peasants: Reflections on Our Obligation to Our Forebears
I’ve just added some new information to a previous posting about Thomas Jefferson Brooks (abt. 1835 – 1862), son of Alexander Mackey Brooks. I wanted to note this new information and a correction I’ve made to that posting so that anyone who may have gathered information from it in the past will know about the … More Addition and Correction to Previous Posting: Tombstone of Martha Elizabeth Hill, Wife of Thomas Jefferson Brooks
Or, Subtitled: “Well Scott I seen Uncle Ed yesterday Ed Birdwell and told him what you said” This posting is a continuation of the previous posting in which I discuss the proven and probable children of Moses Birdwell (1769-1849) by his wife Hannah Folkinson or Folkindon. In the posting I’ve just linked, I discuss the … More Moses Birdwell (1769-1849): Proven and Possible Children by Wife Hannah Folkinson/Folkindon – Samuel J., Henry Landers, Rebecca, Nancy Wright, Margaret, and Ed(mond?)
“The Last Will and Testament of James Brooks Deceas’d was … Ordered to be for further proof” There’s a Murphy’s law in genealogical research that I’ve found proven true over and over – at least in my own research. Maybe your research hasn’t yet encountered this law. I hope that’s the case.
BEGATS AND BEQUEATHALS 