The ProblemI have been working on my genealogy for over 30 years now and I have been searching for clues about my great-grandma's mother, Nora Stollings, since the beginning.  I knew my great-grandma Mae very well growing up as well as her brother Kenneth, whom I knew as "Uncle Bud".  I was blessed to have them share stories with me here and there...

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 Sorting the Son of Elisha From the Husband of Crissie Lately, as I have been working on writing my grandmother Liza's story and looking over documents of her family I have noticed many discrepancies all across the internet, confusing her husband Basil Lester with a different man of the same name who lived in a similar area.  Considering that it is quite difficult to...

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 Eliza Bell RobinettHow We ConnectEliza Robinett is the paternal grandmother of my paternal grandfather.  Her son Theodore is the father of Harmon Hopson Sr., my dad's father.Early LifeWhen Eliza Bell Robinett was born on December 16, 1883, in Pike, Kentucky, her father, William, was 33, and her mother, Lou, was 35. Eliza was no stranger to heartache.  The year of 1918  was particularly hard...

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How We Connect Raymond and Henry Daniels were the sons of Charles Daniels, the brother of my 4th Great-Grandfather Richard Floyd Daniels. Henry Daniels Raymond Daniels and Henry Daniels were half brothers.  They were the sons of Charles Daniels of the Daniels-Christian Feud, who had been married twice.  Henry was the son of Clarissa Adams, who had lost her life in a shootout...

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