So, I’ve been doing quite a bit of family research lately. I started off working on a few lineages on my dad’s side, and now I’m playing a waiting game records so I decided to go off on a tangent and work on a lineage that hasn’t been touched on my mother’s side. The Holladays. [...]

Normally, I’m cursing the fact that my ancestors were from the South. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m perfectly happy to be from a long heritage of Southerners — well, for the most part. But as far as genealogy goes, it’s not a cake walk. Southern courthouses and documents often got burned in the Civil [...]