By: Louise Jones, KHS Director of Research Experience Editor’s Note: The following report comes to us through the research that was conducted for the first Kentucky Ancestors Town Hall event in 2017. As we get deeper into our family histories, it is not uncommon to find an ancestor or related …
On a Burning Deck. The Road to Akron. An Oral History of the Great Migration vol. 1. & On a Burning Deck: Return to Akron. By Tom Jones. (2017. Pp. 298. $18.95. Paperback. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform: http://www.onaburningdeck.com/) ISBN: 978-1-5440-2537-7 & 978-1545565766. Akron, Ohio native Tom Jones presents a fascinating story …
By: Christopher L. Starr I have yet to meet a genealogist that did not have at least one amazing story to share about the unexpected path that their research took. As my own research progressed, this native New Englander was very surprised by the western turn made by my family. …
The Daniel Boone Connection & The Search for the Parents of Harvey Turner By: Francis E. Mudd, III I. Daniel Boone vs. Davy Crockett One evening, in the mid-to-late 1950s, my maternal aunt, Mary Lee Kelly (Weibel) Littlefield, while visiting my family, informed us that we were related the famous frontiersman, Daniel …
By: Cheri Daniels, KAO Editor and KHS Head of Reference Services There has been a recent national trend among genealogy experts that discredits the concept of the “brick wall”. I have heard some experts loudly declare that there is no such thing as a brick wall, only poor or incomplete research. …