The Thoughtful Homemaker

I think that will be my project the next few months. I will work on finding Leonie. Last year I was looking for the Keiths and did find the family of Elizabeth McLin. This year my focus will be on Leonie’s family. I know a lot about Leonie, but I want to find her missing […]

I searched the records of Oise for Leonie’s birth record and could not find her in Oise. Either that is the wrong Louis Charlemagne or Louis moved to another area. Since I could not find any Patri’s in Oise that is very possible. Louis was a merchant so he could have easily moved to an […]

Before I told you the basic story of my ancestors who immigrated from France. I have a lot of information about them once they arrived to the USA but they remain a mystery back in France. Because many of the records in France have not been indexed like they are here in the USA and […]

My great great great grandmother, Leonie Louiza Dumanet, was born in France. Her family came to Tennessee in 1849 and had a tanning business along the banks of the Tennessee River. There were several French and Belgian families opening up tanning businesses, bakeries, etc in the small town of Lobelville, started by the Belgian-Frenchman Henri […]

My Paternal Grandmother’s Line
1. Frances Tucker from Ripley, TN. She died last year in Chattanooga, TN. She loved tennis, bridge, and Coca Cola. She was active in Girl Scouts and other organizations. She met her husband at the University of Tennessee Knoxville.
2. Joseph Magruder Tucker was from Ripley, TN. He was a businessman who […]

I have been doing genealogy again. I am working on my paternal line. That is my father’s father’s line.
1. Lt. Col. Charles Henry Keith Sr. was born in Atlanta. He was a pilot in WWII and married Frances Tucker. We worked as an architect of some kind and for the Department of Housing Urban […]

I am doing a lot of reading on Philip IV, Edward II, and Isabella of France. I thought I was pretty obsessed, especially once I found out I am a direct descendant of these people. That was until I found a blog exclusively about Edward II and then found a blog on Hugh le Despencer. […]

I am an English Literature major mainly because of the poet Thomas Wyatt. He is one of my favorite poets. I used to memorize some of his poems but cannot do it any longer.
Here is his most famous poem:
Whoso list to hunt ? I know where is an hind !
But as for me, alas […]

As many of you know I am going to London in April. Of course, being an amateur genealogist, I plan to see any of my family’s connections in London. My family has been in America for a very long time so it is difficult to really know how many relatives actually lived there. So far […]

I am currently working on a “book” for my father’s family on the lineage of my grandfather. A lot of my grandfather’s genealogy is unknown to the family because my grandfather was adopted when he was a teenager by his step-father. His biological family was lost to us unfortunately. His family is very interesting.
I already […]

I wrote in my other blog an assignment. I asked that you use usgenweb to try to find out some information either on my ancestors or one of your own ancestors. On usgenweb or worldgenweb you can find wills, deeds, marriage records, and cemetery records if you are lucky. Sometimes you can’t find anything because […]

I think it is the mystery that makes genealogy so much fun. You are doing the work of an investigator. You look at your ancestors legal documents and follow them as they move. You read their court documents and their wills. Sometimes when someone writes a biography of an ancestor, they almost honor the person […]

I am afflicted with an addiction to genealogy. It is an inherited condition passed on from my paternal grandfather, to my mother, to myself. (DO you want me to draw my tree? Ahnentafel #’s 3 and 6 are the guilty parties!)
It started with trying to see if I am related to someone famous. Then […]

I was looking up some information on Lauderdale County, TN and found our old friend Alonso Klutts:
SOCIAL HAPPENINGS—The marriage of Miss Helen Given and Mr. Alonozo Klutts occurred at Humboldt on Thursday evening of last week. Mr. & Mrs. Klutts are representatives of two prominent families, pioneers of Lauderdale County. They are […]

This is a letter dated June 30, 1898. It was written by Ida Pope Majors one of my ancestors.
Dear Aunt Minnie,
An awful accident occurred yesterday. Daughter and I went to pick a few berries for supper when I came back, “Oh me! How sad!” One of those […]