tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33024348836969313362024-02-07T03:47:10.751-05:00Family Album JourneyGenealogy research inspired by my Armstrong and Davis families' historic photographs. Using the family photo album as a guide, I'll tell their stories and how I did the research.MEveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405609311336188038noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302434883696931336.post-72522526992390019002018-12-01T20:30:00.002-05:002018-12-01T20:30:49.786-05:00W. Hunter introduces Aunt Henrietta
William Hunter Davis has done it again. His photograph in my family album led me to his Civil War story. (See the video at https://vidgen.me/newcuz ) Then, his photograph in my Ancestry.com tree caught the attention of a distant cousin who introduced me to a 3rd grand-aunt I never knew about.
When I posted his photograph on Ancestry.com I received a message from a gentleman MEveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405609311336188038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302434883696931336.post-25829656160475842232018-04-13T10:12:00.001-04:002018-06-02T09:33:34.162-04:00Mary Elizabeth Davis. “Betty” p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Menlo; color: #454545} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Menlo; color: #454545; min-height: 14.0px} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545; min-height: 12.0px} p.p4 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545} span.s1 {font: 9.8px Menlo}
MEveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405609311336188038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302434883696931336.post-81905783443032019032017-12-18T21:00:00.001-05:002017-12-18T21:00:56.261-05:00How To Find More Clues In your Genealogy ResearchOne of the many reasons to make an ancestor story video is that the process can reveal clues from your evidence you haven't noticed before. The editing process requires you to look at images and listen to narrative closely and repetitively, which I think, gives our brains the chance to see things with a slightly shifted perspective.
It happened to me with a video I MEveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405609311336188038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302434883696931336.post-66293902866807551082014-06-27T23:06:00.002-04:002014-06-29T11:46:40.464-04:00Finding Annie in New York
From census records and her death certificate I knew my 2nd
great-grandmother was from New York. My
burning question was how she got from New York to Savannah in the 1860s?? I knew I needed more details about where she
was from but wasn’t finding anything definitive until I was able to discover
her father’s name “Albert Graham” on her 1910 Montgomery, Alabama death
certificate.&MEveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405609311336188038noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302434883696931336.post-26409861685215597902014-05-30T17:49:00.000-04:002014-06-06T16:30:59.124-04:00Notes from Maureen Taylor's full-day seminar
Back in October, Family Album Journey made a sojourn to a
terrific full-day seminar put on by the Georgia Genealogical Society featuring
Maureen Taylor, the Photo Detective.
I’ve purchased and read several of Maureen’s books and try to use her
advice and knowledge when I look and share my own archival photographs.
Some of the new ideas I learned and plan to apply:
<!--[if !MEveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405609311336188038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302434883696931336.post-9697907626708623142014-05-24T17:15:00.000-04:002014-05-24T17:16:57.621-04:00More babies!Time for the girls now. These are girl cousins of the Davis brothers.
Annie Josephine Davis
This photo is labeled Annie Josephine Davis. She is the daughter of John Bart Davis, who my mother new as Uncle Bart. He was the brother of my great-grandfather William A. Davis. Annie was named for her grandmother, Annie, and her mother, Josephine. So Uncle Bart MEveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405609311336188038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302434883696931336.post-61746803794348175682013-07-20T01:00:00.000-04:002013-07-20T01:00:04.812-04:00Old vs. young
More baby pictures with after and before shots – this time
of brothers Cecil Davis and Albert Davis -- and an amazing portrait of the
Brothers Davis as young tough guys. First
Albert –
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So this week we go from rather serious looking women to...BABIES! What's amazing is that the men I knew as old guys--grandpa, uncles-- were once cute little babies. So here they are with some after and before shots.
George L.A. Davis
Baby George
William A. Davis, Jr.
Baby William A. Davis, Jr.
Will, Jr. is my great uncle. But I MEveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405609311336188038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302434883696931336.post-4600732341357104922013-07-07T21:45:00.003-04:002013-07-07T21:48:31.232-04:00Maggie the Mystery Woman 2<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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My Armstrong-Davis photograph album contains several
unidentified photos, but two that are labeled contain a mystery I have yet to
solve.
I have two photos I’m pretty sure are of the same
woman:
The handwritten label for the first photo appears to say "Maggie Davis." It's possible it could be a different last name. I'm pretty sure my mother wrote "Maggie Davis" on MEveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405609311336188038noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302434883696931336.post-41829803935534962042013-06-22T16:37:00.001-04:002013-06-30T11:11:59.326-04:00The Graham Women Finally Get Some Attention
As soon as I think I don’t know any more about Annie Rebecca
Graham Davis, I then rediscover information that’s been sitting under my
nose. I knew I had census records
showing her living with younger son Bart in Louisville, Kentucky in 1900 and
then living with her older son Will in Montgomery, Alabama in 1910.
But, I FORGOT that I had photographs of Annie’s
mother and MEveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405609311336188038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302434883696931336.post-4020703006503865942013-06-15T00:30:00.000-04:002013-06-15T18:59:39.593-04:00Annie Rebecca Graham Davis
This is the only photograph
I have of Annie Rebecca Graham Davis, my great-great grandmother. I have so little information on this woman
who, as a bride, saw her husband join the Confederate cavalry only four days
after their marriage. She later gave birth to their son and took care of him, all
while her husband was off at war. I know
from census records that she was from New YorkMEveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405609311336188038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302434883696931336.post-41394439870007603692013-06-12T08:18:00.003-04:002013-06-12T08:29:59.153-04:00Annie appears...finally.
Looking through the Savannah City Directories year by year
from 1866 through 1882, I see several patterns.
One is that the publishers changed almost year to year until 1879, when
Sholes’ took over and published the directory for at least four straight years.
The other is that in a city directory a wife doesn’t seem to
exist until her husband dies and she assumes the title of
“wid” or MEveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405609311336188038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302434883696931336.post-47599221427301595732013-06-02T18:00:00.000-04:002013-06-08T21:26:35.958-04:00Fun with City Directories
City Directories can be helpful in showing locations and
occupations of a person, but they can also provide a window into the community
in which they lived through its advertisements, and listings for business,
occupations, churches, schools and social organizations. The 1867 city directory for Savannah
published the new city law instituting a variety of business licenses and
includesMEveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405609311336188038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302434883696931336.post-55164457614745433532013-05-26T19:37:00.003-04:002013-05-26T19:41:16.825-04:00Who was this Mary Marshall?<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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MEveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405609311336188038noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302434883696931336.post-61596461023261394772013-05-11T12:58:00.001-04:002013-05-11T12:58:53.802-04:00Post-war W. Hunter DavisFrom the timeline in my April 27 post we know that W. Hunter Davis took the Oath of Allegiance and was released from Fort Delaware Prisoner-of-War camp on 17 June 1865. What happened to him after that? We have a photograph of W. Hunter Davis below.
We could try to use his clothing to pinpoint a time period, but that can be a little more difficult with men's clothing. MEveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405609311336188038noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302434883696931336.post-25780326300757062812013-05-04T15:22:00.001-04:002015-04-09T09:28:22.031-04:00The Prison TimesAs we saw in the last post, W. Hunter arrived at Fort Delaware prisoner-of-war camp in February of 1865. I don't have specific information about his time there, but in the Library of Congress' American Memory collection there are images of a handwritten newspaper that the POWs at Fort Delaware created themselves. Although imprisoned and probably living in overcrowded conditions, MEveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405609311336188038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302434883696931336.post-57626836566353798082013-04-27T13:57:00.004-04:002015-02-17T09:15:32.455-05:00TimelineOne of the best ways to get a handle on the events of an ancestor's life is with a timeline. From a disparate bunch of records I pull together an orderly timeline to see what, when and where events of their life took place. Better yet I can place my ancestor's activities in historical context by comparing it to events of, say, the Civil War.
Below is a timeline of records for WilliamMEveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405609311336188038noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302434883696931336.post-58283918318348988702013-04-21T11:19:00.000-04:002013-04-21T11:26:26.533-04:00More Myths and MysteriesI'm lucky to have a vintage 19th century photograph of a house that my grandmother, Betty Davis, labeled as being the home where her husband, George Leander Armstrong Davis, was born. (Click on the images in this blog post to see a larger or more complete view.)
The Hickories (Personal Collection of Margaret Eves)
The photo led my mom and me to seek out that home MEveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405609311336188038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302434883696931336.post-52414638854806699672013-04-06T10:11:00.001-04:002013-04-06T10:15:25.400-04:00Family Album...Journeys!That's a verb we're using. Yes, Family Album Journey is hitting the road! Faster than you can say "Road Trip!" my mom and I decided to head for the home of Family Album (the actual album) -- Savannah! Our mission is to see the streets, parks, buildings and homes where our ancestors walked, courted, worked, lived and died. And we will also seek out their final resting spotsMEveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405609311336188038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302434883696931336.post-48235106131658718802013-03-30T01:00:00.000-04:002013-03-30T01:00:04.052-04:00Thanks, Grandpa...I think. Some Confusing Clues.
While my genealogy research has resulted in some rich finds, I did a LOT of stumbling around in confusion at first when trying to track down W. Hunter Davis and his military service.
I have to admit, while growing up I had no idea I had an ancestor who served in the Confederate Cavalry. Even though my grandpa (George L. A. Davis) was alive until I was eighteen, he never mentioned it.&MEveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405609311336188038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302434883696931336.post-78770906397911101402013-03-23T00:30:00.000-04:002013-03-23T00:30:00.413-04:001 Hatchet, 2 Water Buckets, 1 Broom, a Bride, and a Baby
So in 1850, we find W. Hunter at 12 years of age living in Savannah, according to the 1850 U.S. Census. (See my previous posts for the lead-up to this point.)
According the the family Bible, his parents, John Washington and Martha Caroline Davis died in 1857 (or 1851, as the handwriting is a bit difficult to read) leaving him without parents at age 19.
I MEveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405609311336188038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302434883696931336.post-82785783421583427862013-03-16T10:23:00.000-04:002013-03-16T10:44:39.814-04:00Bouncing Back In Time via the Census
We continue our journey back in time with William Hunter Davis, who I like to call W. Hunter (I'll tell the reason why in a future post). Let’s springboard through some census records so we can connect W. Hunter to his pre-Civil War self.
In the 1870 US Census, we find W. Hunter with his family in Savannah. His son, William A. Davis is seven years old. Wife "AnnMEveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405609311336188038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302434883696931336.post-9974154827624271632013-03-09T16:55:00.000-05:002013-03-11T22:06:03.272-04:00Family Puzzle
So how do I (mostly) confirm the connection from George L. A. Davis to his father William A. Davis and then to his grandfather William Hunter Davis? I work backwards. The bible record helps with dates of birth and death, then I work with the census to connect the generations. I have the census records from 1920, 1910, and 1900 showing my grandfather George L. A. and his MEveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405609311336188038noreply@blogger.com0