MarieB's Genealogy Blog--Southeastern USA

I'd sent off for the death record from the Cheboygan Co. MI library of a John Leonard in hopes that this would be THE John Leonard who w...

I consider myself lucky to have had two grandparents who lived to be over 100 years old. My maternal grandfather died a few days shy of wha...

I had written in an earlier post about Jim's Leonard lines and finding a John Leonard living next door to possibly his brother and neph...

Admittedly none of the top discoveries were made specifically by me. I will admit to prodding other researchers of my lines and asking way ...

1. My Hale family's whereabouts in the 1860 & 1870 census. More on this in my previous post . 2. My Cook(e) ancestry--My Dad'...

My Gr Gr Grandfather Wm. P. Hale & his parents have probably been the biggest brick wall opportunity that I've faced in the 18 years...