I was browsing the web site of the Sikeston Standard-Democrat today when I came across something that saddened me – an obituary for Genevieve Smith Lathum. In 2011, I corresponded with her husband DJ Lathum via Genevieve’s Facebook account about Stella Graham Martin and Nona Graham Lathum. DJ and Genevieve were very friendly to me…
Irene Polk
Yesterday, while I was making notes for which articles here at Graham Ancestry would need to be updated with data from the forthcoming 1940 census, I decided to do some more digging in regards to Irene Polk. You may recall from my article on Nona Elizabeth Graham that Nona has sometimes been erroneously recorded in…
Belated Birthday
15 October 2011 recently passed unnoticed. I had intended to do this write-up on that date, the first birthday of Graham Ancestry. Writing these articles has required me to focus my research in ways that I likely wouldn’t have otherwise, and therefore I was able to discover and connect together facts that might have remained…
Obituary: Callie (Watts) Graham
Originally published in The Marshall Republican on Thursday, 2 October 1958. Callie Graham, Wife of Jesse Graham, Died Mrs. Callie Graham, aged 64, wife of Jesse Graham, died Saturday. The family had resided in the Rambo and Watts communities for a number of years. Mrs. Graham was born October 18, 1893. She professed faith in…
The Birth of Disinformation
Something recently happened at Ancestry.com that bothers me. Ancestry has this feature called Member Connect that lets researchers connect their family trees and any supporting documents to other members’ family trees. Once connected, Ancestry notifies members when any other members link to their trees or documents. That’s actually a very handy feature. Here’s the part…
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