Saturday, April 3, 2010

History comes alive






Getting acquainted with Corsicana, Texas where some of my husband's ancestors lived in the 1840s on was fascinating. Looking for their names in history books of the area was quite productive and we were able to extend his genealogy back another generation in North Carolina which is where they came from. Reading in the history books we discovered that his family immigrated together in the same wagon train from Bertie County, North Carolina to Corsicana, Texas via Illinois and Missouri. What brought them to Texas was free land to homestead on. More info on this family in future blogs to come...

8 comments:

  1. What fun! Isn't it exciting to find things in the real world as opposed to the computer? Very exciting.

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  2. Wow. Discoveries already! And while trodding the ancestral land.

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  3. I love places like this. I am glad you have having good results with your research.

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  4. This is an attraction I would love to visit. How wonderful that you have been able to trace back family history as far as you have.

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  5. It looks as if you are having lots of fun, as well as success with the genealogy! Enjoy - cause it is still snowing here!
    Mame

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  6. Wonderful !!This place looks very calm and quite and i am sure very less polluted...the pictures are so bright and beautiful.Your work on genealogy is awe inspiring.Looking forward for more on this trip...happy Sunday !

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  7. It must have been so hard to be a woman back in those days..and I guess a man too....

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  8. I probably wouldn't have been the ideal person weathering all of the problems that occurred.

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