Tombstone Tuesday – Enos Bennett

  Enos Bennett was my great-grandfather.  He was born in Russell County, Kentucky on 14 Sept, 1885 to Silas Jackson Bennett and Mary Elizabeth Rumbo.  He spent some time in Oregon around 1915, but returned to Russell County and married Lelar George on 4 Mar. 1917.  After Lelar passed away in 1927, he married Ledora Helen [...]

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My negative dilemma solved!

I’ve known for a long time that if I have a “techie” computer question, I can always ask my kids.  Especially my 2nd son who is in college studying graphic design and seems to have ALL of the latest computer goodies and programs out there.  So after spending a couple of hours looking through negatives [...]

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Johnson County Historical Museum

I’ve returned from my research trip to southern Indiana and I’m very pleased with the amount of information I gathered!  In all of the years of my research, I’ve never taken alot of time to find actual sources for my closest generations – my parents and grandparents.   I could always get that stuff later – [...]

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Wordless Wednesday

Almost finished with my first research trip of the summer!  I visited the Johnson County Historical Museum in Franklin, Indiana and knew I would have a good time when I saw this sign at the front of the only available parking spot!  A very helpful staff and great information discoveries made this a wonderful trip!

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Summertime! Research Time!

It’s summertime, summertime, sum, sum, summertime!  I’ve finished the last of my teacher duties this afternoon and I’m leaving on my first of several genealogy research explorations of the summer! In all of my genealogy research, I’ve found it frustrating that the last person I can find military information on is my own grandfather!  I [...]

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