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Buzzy Jackson

Buzzy Jackson . Shaking the Family Tree: Blue Bloods, Black Sheep, and Other Obsessions of an Accidental Genealogist. Dig Deeper. . How a series of primary sources led one genealogical researcher from the archives to the grave... and back again. Primary Source Heaven: .

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Buzzy Jackson

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  1. Buzzy Jackson • Shaking the Family Tree: • Blue Bloods, Black Sheep, and Other Obsessions of an Accidental Genealogist

  2. Dig Deeper. • How a series of primary sources led one genealogical researcher from the archives to the grave... and back again.

  3. Primary Source Heaven: • The Bancroft Library, • UC Berkeley.

  4. Oral histories. • START WITH YOURSELF: then (quickly) move on.

  5. GO BACK TO YOUR ROOTS: • First Google search for Emelle, Alabama: not auspicious.

  6. CONSULT THE ELDERS. • Keepers of the flame: • Great-Aunt Selma (Detroit) / Aunt Mary (Kingsley, MI), Cousin Jannelle (Hattiesburg, MS)

  7. GO TO THE SOURCE(S): • The Julia Tutwiler Library, University of Western Alabama: Local history room. • U.S. Post Office, Emelle, Alabama. • The Jackson family homestead, Emelle, Alabama, 2008. • “The bees were a-buzzin...” • The Jackson family homestead, Emelle, Alabama, 2008.

  8. FIND YOUR GRAVEYARD • Google search: • “Sumterville Alabama Methodist Cemetery”

  9. DONT GIVE UP: • Sumterville Methodist Cemetery, somewhere near Sumterville, Alabama, 2008

  10. RANDLE JACKSON • Born in Brunswick Co, Virginia • Oct 17, 1763 • and • Departed this Life May 17, 1839 • Aged 75 years and 9 months.

  11. SEEK UNUSUAL SOURCES: DNA

  12. FIND YOUR ANCESTORS: The Jacksons of Colonial Virginia (ca. 1670) • Source: The Virginia Genealogist (Jan-March 1989, Vol. 33, No. 1)

  13. HIT THE JACKPOT.My primary-source trail: Oral histories > WWW > Oral histories > WWW > Library archives > WWW > Local input > Headstones > DNA > =13 generations of American Jacksons

  14. Buzzy Jackson • Shaking the Family Tree: • Blue Bloods, Black Sheep, and Other Obsessions of an Accidental Genealogist

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