MarieB's Genealogy Blog--Southeastern USA

Several days ago while I had my One-to-Many Comparison tool results open for my kit at GEDmatch.com  , I decided that it might be nice to kn...

My AncestryDNA test results came back yesterday afternoon and as promised I am following up with a post comparing my prediction to Ancestry...

Finally got around to making Word Clouds of my direct ancestors surnames using Wordle website.  My Direct Maternal Surnames M...

These pictures were taken in Old Hickory TN during the mid 1920s.  My paternal grandfather, Thomas DeWitt Cooke and his family moved the...

This is a screen shot from the Ancestry.com app on my phone.  While this is not my Wm. T. Hale who died in 1861 in TN it still bugs me to s...

It is a mystery to me why my Grandfather, William Richard Luna, was born in Fulton Co. KY.  Why was his mother in Fulton Co.  We have no k...