Thompson Family – the mystery of Mildred
A name that I frequently heard growing up as a Thompson was ‘Cousin Mildred’. As a young child, this confused me, since I thought I…
Where was our family in the Civil war?
The most divisive conflict in our nations history (except perhaps for Bush vs Gore of 2000). Where was our family during that contentious time? Right…
Why are my cousins ‘removed’?
There is a lot of confusion about the term ‘cousin’, especially as it relates to distant cousins. The concept of ‘first cousin’, ‘second cousin’, etc……
Snypes Family – did you know?
While surfing over at ancestry.com I discovered the Tennessee marriage license for Sherman Cleveland Snypes and Pearl Willis. What I find most interesting…well I’ll come…
Hayward Family – decendants of first cousins
I guess I was bound to find it somewhere; on September 23rd, 1804 when Davis Hayward married I. Freelove Whitman we became the descendants of…
Thompson Family – just had to post this!
Great (and recent!) shot of Curtis Greenlaw and my cousins Wayne, Tammy, and Ray (the grandchildren of Raymond Brooks Thompson and Ellen Elizabeth Charles).