Ramblings of The Caffeinated Genealogist

  A couple of years ago, I had a burst of creativity in writing posts called "Cemetery Spotlight" in my cemetery group -- Henderso...

I've been a week or so behind in the topics for 52 Ancestors, so I clicked on the prompt for Week 14 and it was the word, "Great....

  I've been a bit delayed in posting, not just because I couldn't think of something decent enough to write about for the topic of ...

 For this weeks topic, the first thing that comes to mind for me is the loss of children and just how many of our ancestors buried multiple ...

  I just wrote a blog the other day on "prosperity" and talked about my 2x Grandparents - John Rowan Thompson and Mary Janella (Na...

 My family tree is more than likely not unlike anyone else's -- a common theme of names are presidential, and I believe that's the t...

John Rowan Thompson wasn't born into riches, nor was he an incredibly wealthy man in today's standards... but back in his day, John ...

     John M. Thompson, who died in Henderson County in 1870, was the lawful father of twenty-nine children; eighteen were by his first wife,...