Tag: ancestry
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My Grandfather: Dr. Rufus Graham
The Flowers’ research will resume soon. If you are searching for more of the Flowers post please view older post or the family’s website, flowersfamilyproject.wordpress.com. Another disclaimer, this blog post is way overdue. I initially finished last night; however, Windows Live Writer malfunctioned leaving me with a two day ago edit. Then I realized that…
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Flowers in the PA Death Certificates Database
Recently, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission digitized the state’s death certificates from 1906 to 1944 onto Ancestry.com. At first, I was unsure of what to make of this. It is strange, in my opinion, for private records to be made public. I can recall the day I came across Hilda’s, Rachel’s sister, death certificate.…
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From Florida to Pennsylvania: The Place the Flowers Called Home
About a month ago, I received the following e-mail from one of my professors, … I was doing some research in the Cumberland County Historical Society yesterday and, as promised at your senior honors project presentation, I looked up the property records for the Flowers home, which has been described as being in Boiling Springs. …
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The Biography of Herant Athanasian
Jacob Ekmekjian is pictured in the back row, first person on the left. Hrant is pictured in the front row sitting, second individual to the left. This picture is undated. Herant was born in Izmit, Turkey and was about 23-24 years old when he first arrived in America. He seemed to enjoy his time at…
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Letters From Rachel
In Geraldine Wilson’s unprocessed collection, there are numerous letters between her and her Aunt Rachel. This is my first encounter with Rachel’s handwriting. Transcription: Dear Jerry, You had said over the phone that you would contact me when you returned to New York. I did not contact you because Harry told me you were…
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Mississippi Summer Project
Source I grew up watching movies documenting the Civil Rights Movement such as Mississippi Burning, PBS documentaries, and reading books on the topic. My interest in African American history is not new, it has always been an interest of mine, but never a college major until recently. When I realized Geraldine Wilson was part of…
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Short Introduction
To do list: Apply to graduate school Choose a date to take the GRE Study for the GRE Figure out how to pay for these outrageous application fees Call my momma…I have not talk to her in more than three weeks. I wish I could say I was relaxing my senior year, you know taking…
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The Memories of Those You Are Remembering
Yesterday, I finally received my photocopies from Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture located in Harlem, New York. I took off of work for the remainder of the day and started my research back up. It is a beautiful thing when a researcher is reunited with her researcher. I had no idea where to…
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They Will Be Remembered
I am not an historian. When I went to the deep South for the first time in 1963…I received my first bibliography on the black experience in this country. It came not from a university professor, but from a black SNCC worker. I have made the personal discovery of the history of my people…
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Her Resume: Hilda Clifford Flowers Wilson
I wonder why her middle name is Clifford. First and foremost, I would like to apologize for my inactivity on the blog. I was originally going to post about Hilda’s diary entries, yet deciphering her handwriting became to big of a task especially when I am working at the same time and planning a…
Diary of a Historian 