“[I]t will be beyond the skies when Jesse W. Steele, private, company G, Third Texas Infantry, kisses the lips of that ‘mother o’ mine,’ for Monday Morning at 11 o’clock he got his summons to appear before the Great General in the final court marshal.”[1] The newspaper article from the 13 February 1917 Houston Post describes how Jesse … Read more
Many of us take a DNA test to find our heritage, our family, and sometimes our potential health risks, but what happens when we discover the unexpected in the DNA results? I have been helping a client with locating her birth father through DNA testing. [1] Her mother had always said Joe was the birth father, and … Read more
The Elijah Edens Brick Wall Each family tree has a brick wall, and most of the time it is on one of the main paternal or maternal lines. For my family research that brick wall is Elijah Edens, born about 1810, probably in Virginia. In the more than 20 years I have been researching Elijah … Read more
I am sitting here at my porch desk, watching Hurricane Harvey dump 14 inches of rain on my house in the past 36 hours. This weather started me wondering, how has weather affected our ancestors? In history we learn about the Dust Bowl during the 1930s, and how the drought conditions of the central prairies … Read more