MarieB's Genealogy Blog--Southeastern USA

The following is an outline of my research and logic used in identifying the couple I believe is the parents of Wm Clifford Cook. I've b...

Almost two years ago I b logged about some finds I made while reading thru the images for Franklin Co NC Will Book C at FamilySearch . I n...

The Fall 2025 edition of the Bedford County Tennessee Quarterly is out and has an article about Revolutionary Veterans who were in Bedford C...

1820 U.S. census, Maury County, Tennessee, population schedule, p. 99, William P Cook; digital image, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/im...

In May, I blogged about finding Pope Cook mentioned in the Franklin County, NC, Court Minutes. Those minutes were from March of 1811. The ...

This deed by Fanning Jones mentions that he is of Bedford Co. TN but now in Wake Co NC however the deed itself is recorded in Franklin Co NC...

  This indenture made the 6th March in the year of Lord one thousand eight hundred and four Between Shem Cooke of the county of Granville an...

I've read thru the record book listed below and wanted to mention a few of the items that I found listed in the volume. Will and invento...

Sworn statement by Shemuel Cook of Franklin Co NC August 4th 1843 which was included in the Revolutionary Pension Application File of Elizab...

To locate where Wm C Cook would have been around 1830 I used the information that was gained from the Williams vs. Putman State Supreme Cou...

I read through some Franklin Co NC Apprentice Records and just a few pages in found a Cook who had been apprenticed.  The following is a war...

I've previously blogged about the Hight family specifically John Hight of Franklin Co NC. You can see those posts at the following link...

Went looking thru the land deeds for Franklin Co NC at FamilySearch.  I focused on the ones covering 1800-1825 for the most part.  Found mor...

Those who purchased from the inventory of the estate sale of John Hight 11th of February 1796.  Franklin County, North Carolina. Plea...