I’m having so much fun researching our common ancestors for this year’s family reunion. Many of you know that my mom (Aunt Lou) has been working on our family history for some time. She recently handed down her files to me. The heyday of her research was before we had so many Internet resources. So much more is easily available online to me; it is exciting to make my own discoveries. Any day that I discover something new is a great day for me.
Today’s find is at footnote.com: a death certificate for Mother Nell’s father (Jasper Newton Fitzhugh). I didn’t have much information on the Fitzhugh line, so this is a big find for me. The most important part of this document is not that it gives me his birth and death dates (October 18, 1857 through November 13, 1927) but that it gives me his parents names (Ezekiel Fitzhugh and Jane Ford) and where they were born (Tennessee).
Yippee! That means more Tennessee relatives to research. Lula Mae Parker and her family were also from Tennessee, specifically Haywood County.
[Note to anyone who wants to poke around at footnote.com: It is a paid subscription site, but you may be able to log on for free through your local library.]
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