MarieB's Genealogy Blog--Southeastern USA

I certainly need to further investigate this.  I have two ancestors named Andrew McElroy--my 3rd grandfather(Andrew J. McElroy) and his fath...

The State Archives of North Carolina recently blogged about a new digital collection--the Secretary of State Wills .    I wondered if some ...

My Dad's older brother, Morris Cooke enjoyed bowling.  A search on his name at Newspapers.com included this entry from a 1959 Tennessea...

As researchers, we are always searching for more information about our ancestors.  I've noticed that particularly in the early 1800s the...

Account of the Sale of Items that were part of the estate of William Ogilvie deceased. Only includes items not bequeathed to those named ...

In a previous post,  I wrote about finding a David Pittman in court for illicit distilling.  I'm not sure if this case went on for awhil...