Tag: McBride

Family Ties: Identifying the Parents of Jesse D. Williams

NOTE: This post is my ProGen Study Group Proof Argument assignment. It is the culmination of several assignments, including my evidence analysis and research report on a related factual situation, already posted. It does not yet have the benefit o…

NOTE: This post is my ProGen Study Group Proof Argument assignment.  It is the culmination of several assignments, including my evidence analysis and research report on a related factual situation, already posted.  It does not yet have the benefit of my study group peer review. Continue reading “Family Ties: Identifying the Parents of Jesse D. Williams”

More Keeping in Touch

I’ve continued to transcribe the correspondence of sisters-in law Ocie Williams and Dora McBride, which documents our great grandparents’ (challenging) migration from Arkansas to Texas in the 1890s. (1) The invented spelling evident in the first p…

I’ve continued to transcribe the correspondence of sisters-in law Ocie Williams and Dora McBride, which documents our great grandparents’ (challenging) migration from Arkansas to Texas in the 1890s. (1)  The invented spelling evident in the first post prompted family discussion about formal schooling in that era, making the thoughts expressed in the third letter particularly interesting.  Continue reading “More Keeping in Touch”

Who Kept in Touch?

That was one of the research prompts presented by Paula Stuart-Warren at my Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy class. It reminded me of another Texan find that I had yet to document here. And you thought the Texas trip was over! I posted earlier abo…

That was one of the research prompts presented by Paula Stuart-Warren at my Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy class.  It reminded me of another Texan find that I had yet to document here.  And you thought the Texas trip was over! Continue reading “Who Kept in Touch?”

Our Grandfather’s Grandfather – Confederate Casualty

[Notes: This is an adapted version of my October ProGen (online study group) homework – a formal research report for a client. In this case, I’m my own client, writing a report to the Williams file. I omitted the middle chunk of the assignment, th…

[Notes:  This is an adapted version of my October ProGen (online study group) homework – a formal research report for a client.  In this case, I’m my own client, writing a report to the Williams file.  I omitted the middle chunk of the assignment, the detailed findings – the lists of sources searched, but I left in the footnotes. In fact, I may change this blog’s tagline to “It’s about the footnotes.”  One more caveat:  this research, analysis, and report took way more than ten hours!]

Williams Report #1

31 October 2010

For:  Research File

Subject: Participation of ancestor Jesse G. Williams in the Civil War Continue reading “Our Grandfather’s Grandfather – Confederate Casualty”