Some Progress Being Made

Theme Song: Repetition by Charlie Parker

Since yesterday I’m on a bit of a roll.

I have excluded Alferd(Afred) and his wife Fannie as being my direct descendant,  I’m wondering if he’s not a great uncle of some sort.  I will have to look into that later. 

E~ (current genealogist/H&G worker/genealogy adviser/friend) told me to stay on point.  She said its easy to get sidetracked and begin looking for all kinds of names.  I told her I wanted to know the surname of William Bowen’s wife (Mat). 

But, searching back to the late 1880’s I was able to find out that William’s father is Wash Bowen.  His wife is named Synthia.  Wash and Synthia were both from Tennessee.  I got as far as 1880.  I may not be able to take them back further but I will try again another day.

And…

I finally was able to find my G-Grandad Jack on the 1930 census.  They have his name listed as Robison but everyone is there.  My uncles and aunts that I know.  I played around with the surname until finally he popped up.  Its like a puzzle.  You have to figure it out and work things around until you get pieces into the right place.

And another thing: looking around on the census track I noticed again the Fuqua name.  It’s the name that was on the video but I’m unsure of how the families are related to one another.  That’s something else for me to search but not today.  After I check out the video again.  I’m going to take the tape and transfer it to a DVD and maybe (with my daughter’s help) put portions on my blog. 

Yeah, I’m thinking big.  Bigger than I’m capable of I’m sure.