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The Invisible Hand 

Is there an invisible hand directing us to find our ancestors, who they are, where they lived, and prompting us to learn more about them? A silent guide urging us to rediscover and document ancestral contributions to a developing new land, before the passing years obscure such memories?  Historic ancestral information can be obscured by the passage of time, misinterpreted, or twisted to fit a … Continue reading The Invisible Hand 

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Unraveling the Ancestry of Maretta Williams

This is a continuing story of my search for the parents of my 3rd great-grandmother Maretta Williams. No single item of evidence proves who the parents of Maretta Williams were. However, the combination of vital records, burial locations, grave markers, DNA matching, similar migration times, geographic proximity, and naming patterns strongly point to the conclusion that Maretta Williams Church was the daughter of Elisha Williams of … Continue reading Unraveling the Ancestry of Maretta Williams