Time to Write!

Quite some time ago, I began a research project. Some of you may know what that was about. It's a local legend here in our town.  So I thought I'd give you an update on where that stands, since many of you expected this project quite a long time ago now. 

I was at a point in the project that I was stuck. I'm not really a great writer and have never really attempted to publish something like this on this scale. I'd been asking people for quite some time to help me out and read it, edit where I have grammatical errors or punctuation, you know - I've been out of school for quite some time and I've forgotten a good deal of information on what it true and correct. 

Anyway, I have been doing some work on an aspect of my family tree using what is called The Beyond Kin Project. This wonderful project extracts all the valuable information from our research, both current and previous, to include historical information on slaveholders(SHs) and the enslaved persons(EPs) in our family  records in the hopes that this information can get into the hands of their own family researchers.  We all need to help each other! This project was developed by Donna Cox Baker and Frazine K Taylor in 2016. 

Recently, Donna Cox Baker has published a book, Views of the Future State: Afterlife Beliefs in the Deep South, 1820-1865, which you can purchase by clicking on the title. She also has created this wonderful Excel Spreadsheet document, Early Federal Census Worksheet, that is about to be the greatest thing since sliced bread! I'm not even joking about that!  It helps those of us comparing census records in our family trees and let me tell you, this is fabulous! Check it out! I promise you it'll be worth it! 

Noticing that she was publishing, I wrote to her for advice and she graciously gave a hand! I hope to work on that in the following week and get things wrapped up so that this long overdue project can come to a valid conclusion. I'm feeling confident about her advice and tips and am thrilled to be able to get this done! 

Look for future posts about this great local interest story that is more than 6 years in the making and has inspired many local projects by various people.  Until then, Enjoy your Adventures in Genealogy!