All My Ancestors

Despite several false starts, hubbo and I finally made it to Houston to my brother’s where the rest of the clan had gathered for Thanksgiving. We didn’t get there until about 4:00 Thanksgiving Day, but it was worth that long awful drive to Houston. Both of my brothers and all of our descendants, [...]

Last week at work I was looking through one of the cases for a family who had been denied membership on the Cherokee rolls about 1896. The file was a large one–about 62 pages–all sorts of affidavits and appeals. The family and their attorney were pleading their case, claiming descendency from a Cherokee [...]

So today I wrote out a big check to the Texas Vital Statistics Department of State Health Services and ordered 4 death certificates. My dad had 7 siblings–4 of them have died within the last 14 years. I have death certificates for their parents but I’d never gotten around to ordering them for [...]

I’m not sure that anyone really reads this blog, but if you’re out there, let me encourage you to use the opportunities that may come to you during the holidays to learn more about your family’s health history. About Genealogy has a good story, with a link to a free piece of software to [...]