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Author: sherri_cunningham1
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I'm new at this too. I got sidetracked and need to refocus, also.
The best advice I can offer at this point is to NOT take things at face value. I got so excited when I first joined because so many others before me had already built their trees and I just copied from them. Then as I studied the trees I found people who had been dead for twenty years or more giving birth to one of my ancestors. I realized that whoever put those trees together was just matching names and locations and nothing more.
SO many people had the same names so you have to be diligent about verifying YOUR ancestor.
I think a lot of people join for the free trial and just go to town with it. The problem is, those trees seem to stay up:(
I have some photos from my grandmother and some neat stuff I found on the Internet that I can scan and send to you. Hopefully I can do that this weekend. I just got a new scanner/copier so I'm still learning how to work it.
I'll send you my Facebook info in a private message.
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Author: ldh_artist
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This is so cool! I never knew much about my Granny's side of the family. She never really talked about them much, other than her brothers that is. I'm not sure she really knew much about her family since her dad died so young. I have pictures that I need to scan to add to my tree. I'm at a point with my family tree that I need to start locating birth certificates and other documentation. I've learning as I go, so bear with me as I'm sure some of my info might change from time to time. It's interesting reading the info you shared, as I always wondered where my Granny's name came from. It obviously was a family name, and her mother's name was Cora Ruth which also seems to have been a popular name back then.
I have very little information or documentation on the Cokers. My Granny (Nettie Belle) passed Thanksgiving 1999, and my dad (her son, Joseph Robert Duncan) passed Aug 1995. My grandfather was killed in WWII, and Granny remarried (one of my grandfather's close friends) and had a second son, Charles Eugene Herring (Gene).
I am very much a novice at genealogy, but I started working on my tree to try to find out more about my Native American ancestry which I've been told is Cherokee from both my mom and dad's families and Iroquois from my grandfather's side. Since I started I had a cousin call me in hopes of an genetic lead due to ancestrial ethnic linage to a rare disease her son was diagnosed with. At that point I had to back off of my dad's side of the family and start working on my mom's.
Thanks for the info and please stay in touch. I do have a facebook page if you do facebook and would like to add me.
Tish
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Author: sherri_cunningham1
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Oh my! It's so good to finally hear from someone!
It's been a few months since I worked on my tree and some of it has grown a little cold. My handwritten notes are a mess, but I can give you a brief rundown of what I know or was told.
I personally knew my great grandmother (Mae) her sisters Nettie and Cora. I never knew Carrie but my grandmother was very fond of her. She was the oldest sister. She married an Elledge and they moved to Callifornia and seemed to have done well.
Aunt Nettie married Wayne Phelps. They never had any children.
Joseph was between Aunt Nettie and my great grandmother (Mae). I have a copy of some kind of draft registration for Joseph, I believe from 1917 that shows he was married with one child at that time. I found it through Ancestry so you probably already have it.
I honestly don't know for sure about their parent's deaths. My grandmother told me that their mother died first, then their father. Both of pneumonia. Their mother is buried in Texas and their father in Oklahoma. I don't know in what years, but they were both still alive in 1900 and by 1910 my great grandmother and her sister Nettie were living with their Uncle George and Aunt Eliza Coker (according to the census records).
The story was told to me though, that my great grandmother was living with their oldest brother, James "Ona" Coker. He told her he couldn't afford to keep her and convinced her to get married to Claude Darby.
My grandmother (Mae's daughter) is still living and tells me stories, but she's beginning to get confused.
As you have probably found, sisters married brothers quite often back then and when someone died young the surviving spouse would often marry the sibling of their deceased spouse. This makes it even more confusing for those of us trying to research.
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Author: ldh_artist
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Joseph Lafayette Coker was my Great Grandfather, his daughter Nettie Belle was my granny, her son Joseph Robert Duncan was my dad. Unfortunately they have all pasted away, but my granny gave me as much information as she could the summer before she died. I have info from my her family bible, but she didn't know very much about his side of the family. She did tell me he died of pernicious anemia in his 30s. From what little I've found on Joseph it looks like at age 15 he was in TX with part of his mother's family. Not sure this is much help, as I do have info on my tree but don't have info needed for proof...working on that as I go though. I found it helps to add and then take away if needed just to give me leads.
Tish
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