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Saturday, July 11, 2009

Saturday Night with Randy


It's Saturday Night, time for some Genealogy Fun (with Randy Seaver) after your frustrating week of finding phantom ancestors in online family trees and trying to keep up with everybody on Twitter, Facebook and Genealogy Wise. Here is your assignment for this Saturday Night (if you decide to accept it, of course - you can't have fun if you don't try): (1) Let's go time travelling: Decide what year and what place you would love to visit as a time traveller. Who would you like to see in their environment? If you could ask them one question, what would it be? (2) Tell us about it. Write a blog post, or make a comment to this post, or on Facebook, or in Genealogy Wise.





If I could travel . . . to somewhere else in time . . . I would like to go back . . . to 1843 in Texas . . . where General Sam Houston (President of the Republic of Texas) is said to oppose opening negotations on statehood at this time . . .



  • IF John M. Sharp is still alive, he and Mahala Lee Roberts have been married about 5 years, and have two children -- Samuel Houston Sharp (about 4 years of age), and 2-year-old Margaret A Sharp -- and they are presumably living in San Augustine County. I want to know John's birth information -- when and where was he born, and who are his parents. He disappears before 1846 . . . and I have not been able to connect him to ANY of the Sharps living around San Augustine during that time period . . . 


  • And meanwhile . . . in Liberty County . . . 4-year-old Sam's future wife, Nellie, is born on the 24th day of May in 1843. She is given the name Mary Alexandrien Lemaire. I want to know if her father is indeed the Alexander Lemaire who was the consular agent of France at Liberty in 1843, and who "embarked at Galveston on the brig Amanda for France to look after his affairs" . . . and who "sailed in the brig Amanda in March 1843, and with his vessel was never heard from" . . . and of whom it is written that . . . 

Upon the death of LEMAIRE, the French consul of the town of Liberty, Cramayel chose not to replace him, declaring: "Liberty is only a hamlet in the interior of a region that has no direct commerce with foreign countries. In the surrounding area there are only about thirty French residents, widely scattered, & living in a situation close to destitution." . . .


3 comments:

Diana Ritchie said...

I'm always so glad when I click over to visit your blog rather then just read it in a reader - I just love the "atmosphere" over here!!!

BeNotForgot said...

Diana, thank you so much for the sweet comment. I look at this site as my "home" on the WWW and I strive to make it a welcoming atmosphere, hoping all will feel "at home" here. And believe me -- this "home" is MUCH better organized than my actual residence, which has the "genealogy piles" ALL over the place!

Greta Koehl said...

Your article on SNGF reminded me of one of my alternative choices - to visit my Republic of Texas-era ancestors, the Brinlee brothers, to ask whether they actually committed those murders they were charged with during Republic days.

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