tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91287712024-03-14T00:30:21.610-04:00tn type's genielinksgenealogy links and notes of current interest to any and all of my family history research. main geographical locations: tennessee (roane co, rhea co, hamilton co, meigs co, monroe co); wisconsin (chippewa co, sheboygan co; maryland (kent co, prince george's co). major surnames: giles, majors, ellis, phillips, haggard, montgomery, mcpherson, newport, brashear/s, gilliland, sarratt, loiselle, chapman, roberts, robertson, rackowtn typehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165052324429271570noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128771.post-36639452755743138182007-09-15T12:19:00.000-04:002014-01-12T11:02:11.737-05:00Be your own Dick Eastman with Google' Reader SearchIf you are befuddled by all those "rss" and "Subscribe to my feed" buttons, you need first to view the new free Utube video about using feed readers - | here |; and second, you need a good feed reader. I personally use and love Google's web-accessible, easy-to-use Google READER which has just added the capability to search across all the feeds I am subscribed to. Read about it in Google's tn typehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165052324429271570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128771.post-433419015178107612007-03-13T16:22:00.000-04:002007-03-13T16:48:35.980-04:00Roane County families and the Century Farm ProjectToday is the first time I've read about Tennessee's Century Farm Program in existence since 1975. It honors Tennessee farm families who earn at least $1000 a year in revenue from a farm their family has owned continuously for 100 years or more with at least ten remaining acres belonging to its original owner. First managed by the state's Department of Agriculture, in 1985, the program was turnedtn typehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165052324429271570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128771.post-36440256963351504902007-03-03T07:57:00.000-05:002014-01-12T10:55:17.871-05:00TnType's Tennessee Genealogy Linksfor a number of reasons, i have spread myself and my TnType pages all over the web. what follows is an annotated list of my sites and a little description of what is available at each one. though i try to connect my sites using sidebar menus and such, my family suggested that i put all the links on one central page, so here goes (and i hope you find it useful - especially for your roane co, tn tn typehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165052324429271570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128771.post-87584723868394510772007-01-31T08:05:00.000-05:002007-01-31T08:18:40.940-05:00Robert GILLILAND family genealogy - Roane Co, TNI've posted my current research notes on Roane County, Tennessee pioneer Robert GILLILAND (son-in-law of Robert Samuel BRASHEAR/BRASHEARS) at my googlepages site, roane county genealogy - roane county, tennessee kin & kith. He and his wife Mary "Polly" BRASHEAR settled in the future Roane County Sugar Grove Valley area when others of Robert S. BRASHEAR's family members did.(For more tn typehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165052324429271570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128771.post-1161023633291285612006-10-16T13:16:00.000-04:002007-03-10T09:11:12.633-05:00GOOGLE documents and spreadsheets for genealogy blog writingGOOGLE Docs & Spreadsheets -- why would you want to use GOOGLE's free online document and spreadsheet creation, editing, and document storage program to create a genealogy blog page when your blogging software already has a wysiwyg editor? well, here are a few reasons for that and for other things, too:1. number one for me is that the interface is roomy, so i'm not constantly having to scroll tn typehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165052324429271570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128771.post-1160966832794490092006-10-15T22:42:00.000-04:002007-03-10T09:13:52.879-05:00joel hembree and jane dale - roane county 1800 - fatal wedding feastA narrative about the tragic wedding day of Joel HEMBREE and Jane DALE of Roane County, Tennessee made the front page of The New York Times on 25 Nov 1880. The story was picked up for Edmond Burke's Annual Register in London and published the following year (see below). Although the Roane County in question is likely not Roane County, Tennessee, the HEMBREE surname is connected to many Roane tn typehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165052324429271570noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128771.post-1160428218952971322006-10-09T17:10:00.000-04:002007-03-10T09:15:10.294-05:00free online source citation generator - citing sources easilythose doing genealogy research quickly learn that our data is only as good as its source. keeping track of ways to document all the different items we use as source materials, however, can be a pain - online GEDCOMS, courthouse records, cassette tapes, interviews, newsletters, etc. even the best genealogy software programs don't readily solve all our sourcing questions. the online citation tn typehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165052324429271570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128771.post-1160409033925794302006-10-09T11:50:00.000-04:002007-03-10T09:46:25.649-05:00Rockwood and the Roane Iron CompanyFrom tn type's online photo albumsThe Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland : Electronic Edition by Edward King and illustrated by James Wells Champney published in 1875 includes this drawing of Rockwood's tn typehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165052324429271570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128771.post-1160093245098024172006-10-05T20:07:00.000-04:002007-03-10T09:20:16.480-05:00grave registrations for civil war veterans - my submissionstoday i submitted information for james calvin "calvin" giles and for david washington montgomery to the following site:Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War: Grave Registrationthe submissions are pending review., [update:the submissions were accepted & are now available to researchers.this is a great adjunct site for the national parks civil war soldiers and sailors system databases| here tn typehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165052324429271570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128771.post-1160081032882567312006-10-05T16:43:00.000-04:002007-03-10T09:21:42.582-05:00roane county's wheat community sacrificeThe Wheat Community was the largest of the five local Tennessee communities (Wheat, Robertsville, Elza, Scarboro, and New Hope) displaced in 1942 and early 1943 to make way for the huge Oak Ridge Manhattan Project complex.the above information appears in a brief article about roane county, tennessee's sacrifice to the world war II oak ridge project was recently published in the oak ridger [onlinetn typehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165052324429271570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128771.post-1159889912632120312006-10-03T11:38:00.000-04:002007-03-10T09:24:11.429-05:00roane co tn genealogy research - don't miss the carnegie library in harrimanif you are ever in roane county, tennessee doing genealogy research, i suggest that you stop in at harriman's public library. though its genealogy secetion is small, it's still a good place to look for local information and to see one of our nation's carnegie libraries in what must be very close to its original form. a few contemporary photographs and a brief history of harriman, tennessee's tn typehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165052324429271570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128771.post-1159651428521596262006-09-30T17:23:00.000-04:002007-03-10T09:26:17.028-05:00Revolutionary soldier David Montgomery's descendants subject of new blog Traditional history says that cousins Martha & John (Sr) MONTGOMERY married aboard ship while migrating from Ireland to PA where they first settled. About 1770, most of their family moved to Mecklenburg Co, NC. From there, their son David MONTGOMERY (W4039)served in the Revolutionary War before moving to Burke Co, NC and marrying Margaret ALLEN. Their son Allen MONTGOMERY married Susannah tn typehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165052324429271570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128771.post-1156892062303690902006-08-29T18:00:00.000-04:002007-03-10T09:28:54.780-05:00christmas in august rockwood tennessee style on the first weekend of december every year, many rockwood, tn residents open the doors of their homes to visitors for the rockwood christmas tour of historic homes. i've heard about it for a couple of years, and since the moment i heard, i've been telling myself that i need to make my roane county visits coincide with it - at least once. until her sudden death last year, a distant cousin, tn typehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165052324429271570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128771.post-1156341506733985952006-08-23T09:48:00.000-04:002007-03-10T09:30:32.603-05:00free tennessee civil war resource booklet as a downloadenvirons of knoxville seen from south bank of tennessee river, east tennessee university in middle distance - knoxville, tennessee: photo compliments of the us library of congress, american memory collectionon a trip home to harriman, tn, a couple of weeks ago, we stopped as we always do at the tennessee state line visitor's bureau to check the brochures and maps available this fall. this stop, tn typehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165052324429271570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128771.post-1155493079718116582006-08-13T14:14:00.000-04:002007-03-10T09:43:41.107-05:00tennessee county formation maps for census worktennessee county formation maps and formation information - helpful for census and migration use - can be found as ani-maps online | here |with the map on this page, you can follow a county year to year with three different kinds of county outline maps:1. plain outline maps can be shown with changing boundaries for each county from census to census. roane county was established in 1803 and can betn typehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165052324429271570noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128771.post-1154355061341021982006-07-31T10:11:00.000-04:002007-03-10T09:45:01.276-05:00roane co tn district chart - tool for census workroane county, tennessee district chartgenealogy tool for census worklinks to rootsweb, usgenweb, and personal pages withfree roane co, tn census | here | [on my own rootweb site]Old District Number New District Number1 - 1st 3 - 3rd2 - 2nd 3 - 3rd3 - 3rd 2 - 2nd4 - 4th 2 - 2nd5 - 5thtn typehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165052324429271570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128771.post-1153232193066046292006-07-18T10:00:00.000-04:002007-03-10T09:49:35.377-05:00update to roane county tennessee obituary links pagethe roane county, tennessee area obituary links page here in genielinks - "obsessed with the dead" - is mostly still current. a couple of the links are outdated, however, so you'll want to update your bookmarks for the following:current obituaries in the daily post athenian (online - mc minn & meigs counties) are | here |the crossville chronicle obituary archives can be searched | here |the tn typehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165052324429271570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128771.post-1152796066532501102006-07-13T09:07:00.000-04:002007-03-10T09:51:33.303-05:00the look of the day your ancestor died - the u.s. navy just might help you"Pa said he was shooting at some pigs"... from the court testimony of frank ellis, 11 year-old son of charles d. ellisPhoto copyright 2006 D Giles Loisellethe u.s. naval observatory has several interactive tools online, some of which can be handy, if not imperative, for genealogists. one of my personal favorites is the rise/set/transit/twilight data calculator | here |. using it, i am able to gettn typehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165052324429271570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128771.post-1151510799364460312006-06-28T12:01:00.000-04:002007-03-10T09:56:14.837-05:00early giles marriages tennesseeat the main tn type site, i recently posted most of the early GILES marriages in tennessee that i have collected in the course of my research. you can view them | here |. please remember that the list is incomplete and is meant to be used for research leads and personal, noncommercial use only.tn typehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165052324429271570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128771.post-1151163109138442732006-06-24T11:31:00.000-04:002007-03-10T09:57:39.441-05:00wilson's creek national battlefield gets more recordsmargaret newport of rhea co, tn's first husband was william c. underwood, csa, who was killed in missouri on 10 aug 1861 at the battle of oak creek, now called the battle of wilson's creek. her brother asa newport was wounded that day in battle and died of typhoid a few days later.my family had others in missouri during the war, and some recent news from the wilson's creek battlefield gives me tn typehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165052324429271570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128771.post-1150889484911608122006-06-21T07:31:00.000-04:002007-03-10T10:00:14.969-05:00morgan co, tn genealogy research helpsmorgan county, tennessee's tngenweb - like genielinks ;-) - has a page of useful genealogy research helps for east tennessee genealogists | here |.the list includes links to items like the following:roane county, tennesse tax lists for 1814-1817 (morgan co was part of roane then)tn courthouse fires & lost recordstn pension roll of 18351840 census of pensionersfirst families of tennessee& tn typehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165052324429271570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128771.post-1150647478618746292006-06-18T12:17:00.000-04:002007-03-10T10:01:14.958-05:00fact sheet - genealogy roane co, tnthe tennessee state library and archives keeps a genealogy help page for each tennessee county. in addition to highlighting the county's location on an outline map of the state and giving the name of the county seat and foundation information, the pages contain the following useful information - most in easy to locate list form:the years in which census records are available for the county tn typehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165052324429271570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128771.post-1150497758513989632006-06-16T18:28:00.000-04:002007-03-10T10:03:09.843-05:00roane county, tennesse genealogy records - document photos of primary materialsin addition to creating web photo albums for the delozier cemetery and the bethel cemetery in roane county, tn today, i have also begun an album that has photographs and/or scans of some of my primary source records which county genealogists can download for their personal, noncommercial use (see copyright notices in my albums). the permanent link to this tn type picasaweb album is http://tn typehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165052324429271570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128771.post-1150496819515983482006-06-16T18:24:00.000-04:002007-03-10T10:05:07.823-05:00delozier cemetery, emory gap, roane co, tn - photo albumi've uploaded a tn type album of the delozier cemetery located in emory gap, roane county, tennessee to my picasaweb public genealogy photo gallery. tn typehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165052324429271570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9128771.post-1150496206778491832006-06-16T18:13:00.000-04:002007-03-10T10:06:27.720-05:00bethel cemetery, kingston, roane county, tennessee - photo albumgoogle's free picasa photo software now has a web album generator that will upload member photos directly to picasaweb.google.com. i have just uploaded a small album of photos taken at the bethel historic cemetery in kingston, tn to a new Tn Type site there. you can always check all of my public TnType picasaweb albums by using the link http://picasaweb.google.com/TnType. any of the photos postedtn typehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165052324429271570noreply@blogger.com2