(adjective) to be deeply curious about the roots and branches of your family tree.
Way back when - in 2016 - one of my maternal uncles took a DNA test. I wrote, "The Genetic Genealogy Hunt Has Started!" Lol. I posted some notes from his results, and then...nothing. I was in no hurry to do my own testing.
But, six years later, I have finally taken my first two tests!
My last three posts have all been connected. When I wrote of Borden Scott’s graduation from Meharry Medical College, I wondered if anyone from his family had ventured to Tennessee to attend, but noted that his father had likely already passed away. The next post followed up on this topic. What about his mother, Nellie Little Scott – was she still alive at the time of his graduation, in 1908? I needed to write about Lula Scott Crew’s correspondence before I could get to that. Which brings us to this post.
Fam, I’ve been holding out on you. I got something really, really cool – actually, something pretty darn amazing – in my email over a year ago, and I am only just getting to write about it. But now that I’ve had some brain space to pick up my research and writing again – taking vacation days is so necessary if you can, y’all! – I am so excited to loop you in.
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| The Writing Lesson, by Morris Shulman. Citation Below. |
Sometimes in my random pokings around in the genealogical corners of the internet, I get lucky. I wander along random paths, checking out new - or new-to-me - record sets, typing in a name here or there just for kicks, and then, voila! I find something interesting.
That’s how I ended up in the Georgia, County Voter Registrations, 1856-1909 record set on FamilySearch.org. And that’s how I may have discovered when my 4x Great-Grandfather Solomon Scott (Scoatney’s father) passed away.
On March 20, 1908, The Nashville Globe wrote, “The invitations of the faculty and the graduating class of 1908 of Meharry Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical College for the forty-second anniversary of the institution, are out to score of friends of the faculty and the students.”
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| Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86064259/1908-03-20/ed-1/seq-4/> |
In my last post on Sydney Borden Scott, I ended on the question of whether or not he had any time for fun while studying at Meharry Medical College. Well, I’ll leave you all to answer that question with this fun little tidbit of social info from The Nashville Globe, published on January 3, 1908:
We all know we “come from people,” but to learn their names and to begin to imagine their lives is a powerful thing. They become real.
I’m excited to have one more name to speak aloud, one more life story to dig into: my newest 3x great-grandparent, Gilbert Wilkerson.
