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Speaking of "relative". Those of us who live in the world of genealogy research have often dealt with the struggles of explaining to interested parties (albeit a fleeting interest) at family reunions the degrees of relationship between them and some famous relative of yesteryear. 

You've seen it. Come on now, be honest. For that brief moment in time your audience - Aunt</atom:summary><link>http://rootdiggin.blogspot.com/2011/12/simplicity-is-relative.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Wes Patterson)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399021609396468313.post-7170101248198692200</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:29:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-09-09T15:30:43.395-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Robert Patterson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Research Status</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Patterson</category><title>Status of Research Projects</title><atom:summary>The last four weeks have been a whirlwind as I embarked on another Blog project - one that has absolutely nothing to do with genealogy. It took off like a rocket and has kept me quite busy - some 35 blog posts in 25 days, and right at 4,000 pageviews have resulted during that time frame.

But now that has settled in and "running like clockwork", it's time to make an appearance in the root diggin </atom:summary><link>http://rootdiggin.blogspot.com/2011/09/status-of-research-projects.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Wes Patterson)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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In trying to pinpoint the exact location of Robert Patterson’s 106 acre tract in Sussex Co DE, what details do we know? Let’s take a look at the deeds concerning this tract and see what we can glean from them.

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&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399021609396468313.post-6909104543347429178</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 18:42:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-09-09T15:31:56.027-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sussex Co DE</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Linville Creek Va</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Tips</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Robert Patterson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Patterson</category><title>Productive Diversions</title><atom:summary>Sometimes I get so deep in research on a particular topic that the end result is I'm so deep I can't see much. It's like the old saying, "You can't see the forest for the trees." Apparently that applies to family trees as well.

I've learned over the years I have to force myself to switch gears and go work on a different tangent, some other avenue of research. It may be about the same person, but</atom:summary><link>http://rootdiggin.blogspot.com/2011/08/productive-diversions.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Wes Patterson)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399021609396468313.post-5435422877111112592</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 02:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-09-09T15:32:15.459-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Linville Creek Va</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sussex Co DE</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Augusta Co Va</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Clarks Fork</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Cravens</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Harrison</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Thomas Patterson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Robert Patterson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Yadkin River</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Adams</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">York Co SC</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Patterson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Ponder</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Buncombe Co NC</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Black</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Stewart</category><title>Joseph Harrison of Sussex Co DE &amp; Augusta Co VA</title><atom:summary>In July 2010 Harald Reksten was working the Sussex Co DE Court Records. He abstracted a set of records and emailed them to me with the following message:

While looking at the court records I came across these entries about Joseph Harrison that I copied from the microfilm. These records are not published so no one would know about them unless they looked at the microfilm. Notice the references to</atom:summary><link>http://rootdiggin.blogspot.com/2011/08/joseph-harrison-of-sussex-co-de-augusta.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Wes Patterson)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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These words come to mind when I considering certain books in my office. Not just any books, mind you. Books that enlarged the world that is genealogy for me. The world I spend many waking hours speculating on my ancestors, imagining their conditions, their ambitions, their experiences. These books helped shape reality in regards to my ancestors. They have</atom:summary><link>http://rootdiggin.blogspot.com/2011/08/my-favorite-genealogy-books.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Wes Patterson)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fVOZ1HolMiA/Tjy9VZ-nh4I/AAAAAAAAAO0/whPXkC0q5a8/s72-c/book.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399021609396468313.post-97043803415142836</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 03:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-09-09T15:32:42.654-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Peter Patterson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Linville Creek Va</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Augusta Co Va</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Harrison</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Robert Patterson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">York Co SC</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Patterson</category><title>Abigail - Daughter of Robert &amp; Sarah Patterson</title><atom:summary>Not too many researchers know about Abigail Patterson, a child who was baptized in 1740 in Augusta Co VA on the frontier. And those who have seen that record, assume she was the daughter of the wrong Robert Patterson.

However, in March of 2009 it was discovered this young girl was actually the daughter of Robert and Sarah Patterson, of Linville Creek. In fact, this is the only known record of an</atom:summary><link>http://rootdiggin.blogspot.com/2011/08/abigail-daughter-of-robert-sarah.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Wes Patterson)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MEkp5H0Q1Vs/TjthqQJnRvI/AAAAAAAAAOc/OH_Z5mZxb9E/s72-c/Baptisms.RevCraig.AugustaVa.1740s.p02.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399021609396468313.post-6121423388148130783</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-09-09T15:33:07.317-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Tips</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Robert Patterson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Patterson</category><title>Makin' a List, Checkin' It Twice</title><atom:summary>No. This is not a Christmas story. But the carole is right, you know.

Did you ever have that teacher who kept insisting you show your work? Did you ever have points counted off your math test because you didn't show how you obtained your answers? Even though you got the correct answer? How many times were you told to check and re-check your work to make sure you didn't make a mistake? Even worse</atom:summary><link>http://rootdiggin.blogspot.com/2011/08/makin-list-checkin-it-twice.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Wes Patterson)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-e56dUrI-txo/TjlRxT3BAfI/AAAAAAAAAOU/AHhQlS0lNDo/s72-c/pencilnotebook.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399021609396468313.post-7441141530949522962</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-08-01T14:28:30.678-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Peter Patterson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">John Patterson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sussex Co DE</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Robert Patterson II</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Linville Creek Va</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Thomas Patterson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Robert Patterson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">York Co SC</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Patterson</category><title>There Were Five Brothers</title><atom:summary>"My great-great-grandfather came to Georgia in the 1700's. June's got that he must have been the first Patterson to come to Ga. He came from N.C. That's where my Dad said 5 brothers came from the old country landed in N.C. They went to different places. Dad said they were Scotch Irish."
~ Aunt Nellie Patterson Mason, September 1982

I was fourteen years old when I received this second letter from</atom:summary><link>http://rootdiggin.blogspot.com/2011/08/there-were-five-brothers.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Wes Patterson)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399021609396468313.post-4808823139684288037</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-08-02T11:33:58.660-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sussex Co DE</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Linville Creek Va</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Clarks Fork</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Augusta Co Va</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Robert Patterson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Patterson</category><title>And I Thought There Wasn't Much To Find On Him!</title><atom:summary>When I first began researching Robert Patterson of York Co SC (more than a decade ago), I just didn't think there was much on him to be found. I knew he had a Last Will &amp; Testament, which is more than a lot of people had in those days. I knew he owned land, but that's only going to show up in a handful of recorded ledgers.

Let's face it, the man lived in the 18th century. How much could be found</atom:summary><link>http://rootdiggin.blogspot.com/2011/07/and-i-thought-there-wasnt-much-to-find.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Wes Patterson)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399021609396468313.post-8496610753297616440</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:22:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-08-03T15:50:20.223-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Linville Creek Va</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Tips</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Augusta Co Va</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Robert Patterson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Patterson</category><title>A Lesson in Genealogy</title><atom:summary>So often we take for granted the need to carefully document an event we've researched in our never-ending quest for genealogical omniscience. For example, my 6-greats-grandpa (Robert Patterson) obtained a Virginia Land Patent (grant) in 1764 for 265 acres on Linville Creek near Harrisonburg.

Big deal. Get a copy of the 1764 patent and you're good to go. 

Well, not so fast. 

You see, there were</atom:summary><link>http://rootdiggin.blogspot.com/2011/07/lesson-in-genealogy.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Wes Patterson)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u5tE6BdH_mc/TjFrZTPr5vI/AAAAAAAAAOA/G9q7FT4aOmo/s72-c/1753-12-15_Augusta_Survey_1-070b_Robert_Patterson_265_acres.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399021609396468313.post-2326067646908476215</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:42:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-27T11:42:31.821-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Linville Creek Va</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Augusta Co Va</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Robert Patterson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Patterson</category><title>Robert Patterson's Linville Creek Land</title><atom:summary>Last night I was all set to post an article I'm calling "Part 2" regarding the specific location of Robert Patterson's 740 acres on Linville Creek near Harrisonburg, VA. 

But as fate would have it, a couple of new issues popped up.

First issue - I found another map that gives a little more detail on the branches and forks of Linville Creek, so that is forcing me to make some changes to my </atom:summary><link>http://rootdiggin.blogspot.com/2011/07/robert-pattersons-linville-creek-land.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Wes Patterson)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399021609396468313.post-3483664251407521405</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-26T07:11:26.338-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Wm H Patterson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Union Co Ga</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Fannin Co Ga</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">George Patterson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Patterson</category><title>Brothers Named East and West</title><atom:summary>About 30 years ago I remember my dad taking us to visit my grandpa Patterson's sister, Nellie Patterson Mason in north GA. My grandpa had already died a few years before that in 1975. Aunt Nellie was in her 70's already, but her mind was still sharp. 

Being that I was always interested in family stories, and that my name is Wesley, Aunt Nellie was reminded of a pair of brothers she remembered </atom:summary><link>http://rootdiggin.blogspot.com/2011/07/brothers-named-east-and-west.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Wes Patterson)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399021609396468313.post-2925338197934339716</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 03:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-23T23:58:17.467-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Peter Patterson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Robert Patterson II</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Clarks Fork</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Thomas Patterson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Robert Patterson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">York Co SC</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Patterson</category><title>How Many Sons Did Old Robert Patterson Have After All?</title><atom:summary>Robert Patterson wrote his last Will &amp; Testament in July of 1775 in York Co SC. He died no later than November that same year. Robert was my gggggg-grandfather. For years, all we've known for sure concerning how many sons he had was the four sons named in his Will, viz. Thomas, Robert, Peter and William. But were there other sons?

Naturally, anyone would agree that there could have been other </atom:summary><link>http://rootdiggin.blogspot.com/2011/07/how-many-sons-did-old-robert-patterson.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Wes Patterson)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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1) Linville Creek Timeline

This site gives a rich historical timeline regarding major events along Linville Creek, particularly some of the earliest patents and settlers. The 1739 event is of key interest to me, as my ancestors' patents butted up against this </atom:summary><link>http://rootdiggin.blogspot.com/2011/07/linville-creek-va-early-settlers-and.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Wes Patterson)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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Elizabeth married a man named Daniel Ponder (Jr) in the early 1770's in York Co SC. Around the turn of the century they moved to Buncombe Co NC and </atom:summary><link>http://rootdiggin.blogspot.com/2011/07/lost-grave-of-elizabeth-patterson.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Wes Patterson)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399021609396468313.post-8647118204063094456</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 18:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-23T14:53:27.275-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Research Status</category><title>Family Tree Maker 2011 Locking Up</title><atom:summary>When you do the kind of genealogy research I do, you have to have a reliable family tree database. For years I have used Family Tree Maker (FTM). About a year ago I bought a new laptop computer which came with Windows Vista. So my old FTM software didn't fully work in Vista, such as converting reports to PDF format. That's a big problem.

So a few months back I broke down and upgraded my FTM to </atom:summary><link>http://rootdiggin.blogspot.com/2011/07/family-tree-maker-2011-locking-up.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Wes Patterson)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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Then you should also be familiar with the character Gus McCrae, played by actor Robert Duvall. 

As pop-culture would have it, we Americans have adopted aspects from this movie into our own culture, such as the specific type of cowboy hat worn by McCrae. This particular hat is called a "Montana Gus". 

Don't ask me why. It was news to me, too.

</atom:summary><link>http://rootdiggin.blogspot.com/2011/07/jerry-patterson-and-montana-gus.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Wes Patterson)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zndMYXZoKD0/TipIPpGTdqI/AAAAAAAAAN4/n3c26y8SuKY/s72-c/Patterson-Jerry_JacksonHoleWY_MontanaGus.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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Left to right: Jeff, Lump, Lew, Lishe, Em

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The makeup of Robert Patterson’s land holdings in Augusta Co VA during the mid 18th century appears to have been sorted out at long last. For years, many researchers have attempted to sift the maize of records concerning the Robert Patterson who lived along Linville Creek, a few miles west or northwest of Harrisonburg, VA. This Robert Patterson migrated </atom:summary><link>http://rootdiggin.blogspot.com/2011/07/robert-patterson-740-acres-va.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Wes Patterson)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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Legends are the stuff that dreams are made of. Glory, grandeur, drama. When we think of legends we think of King Arthur, William the Conqueror, George Washington, General Custer, Daniel Boone. We often think of legends as the first to do something. Or, the greatest at having done something. Most of the time, however, our assumptions about these legends are highly inaccurate. At the very </atom:summary><link>http://rootdiggin.blogspot.com/2011/07/pattersons-and-daniel-boone.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Wes Patterson)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TPJD-MkkRvE/Th-W7ASlhhI/AAAAAAAAANk/e6tHPNekCWM/s72-c/1755.BenjCopelandEstate.Rmark.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399021609396468313.post-7062963707610718437</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 03:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-10T23:04:11.980-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">John Patterson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Buncombe Co NC</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">George Patterson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Newfound Baptist Church</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Black</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Patterson</category><title>Gov. Mike Huckabee's Buncombe Co NC Ancestors</title><atom:summary>Newfound Baptist Church is located in Buncombe County in the town of Leicester, about 8 miles NW of picturesque Asheville, NC. This church (NBC) is important to my family research due to the fact that so many ancestors and other relatives attended there from its founding in 1802. The survival of the church's monthly business meeting minutes has been a wonderful blessing to researchers over the </atom:summary><link>http://rootdiggin.blogspot.com/2011/07/gov-mike-huckabees-buncombe-co-nc.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Wes Patterson)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399021609396468313.post-6682628777112514762</guid><pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 20:16:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-09T16:16:27.781-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sussex Co DE</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Augusta Co Va</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Harrison</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Cravens</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Thomas Patterson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Robert Patterson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Yadkin River</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Stewart</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">York Co SC</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Old Forsyth</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Patterson</category><title>Small World - Large Family</title><atom:summary>A former preacher at the church I attend here in Winston-Salem, NC had a saying that stuck with me. You know how it goes when something happens that prompts someone to quip "It's a small world"? Rod Sharp would hear that and immediately reply with "Large family!".

There's a lot of truth to that. I've especially come to realize this in recent years with genealogy research. It's no longer a shock </atom:summary><link>http://rootdiggin.blogspot.com/2011/07/small-world-large-family.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Wes Patterson)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399021609396468313.post-6679179296187934454</guid><pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-09T13:01:13.979-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Wm H Patterson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Union Co Ga</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Patterson</category><title>"They came down HERE shooting at us and I was just protecting my homeland!"</title><atom:summary>Imagine my surprise last night when I received an email from cousin Dave Huskey - which is no surprise in itself - but rather the contents of which contained a quote from my great-great-grandpa, Bill Patterson. Dave's email contained a scanned copy of a letter written by Sue Tucker to Shirley Huskey, the latter of which is Dave's mother. Sue Tucker and Dave's father (the late James A. Huskey) </atom:summary><link>http://rootdiggin.blogspot.com/2011/07/they-came-down-here-shooting-at-us-and.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Wes Patterson)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dsUkbk0615w/ThhjYHBEyXI/AAAAAAAAANg/L9hJYPl24Sc/s72-c/patt_william-h.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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