MarieB's Genealogy Blog--Southeastern USA

One of my favorite things to do outside of my own research and helping adoptees find their bio families is to find an interesting database a...

I don't know that this Garrison King has any connection to my own King line(or Cooke line for that matter as his wife was a Cook).  He a...

During what has to be the busiest week for me in some time,  I've actually managed to make a bit of headway with my daughter's mtDNA...

This "rabbit hole" adventure starts out with me finding this snippet shown below on  Newspapers.com and wanting to know more abou...

I checked my One-To-Many match listing at GEDmatch for the first time in about a week and found 2 new (above 30 cM) matches.   One 41.6 cM a...

Cousin:  Jakes/Harger 1st Cousin 3 times(generations) removed Eliza Frances Jakes Burks(1853-1947) Eliza F. Jakes was the daughter of Jo...