The Black Tree: Finding the Maiden Names of Women in Your Family Tree

Saturday, November 30, 2013

Finding the Maiden Names of Women in Your Family Tree

This a , great video for researching maiden names of the women in your family tree. Keep in mind though African American women did not spent a lot of time doing social gatherings that they spent a lot of time in church and home after the Civil War era. I found that finding where they worked sometimes held a lot of clues. A late cousin of my family's was a "Womack" but had become a border and her name changed. After researching who she resided with (border, as they called it) she took on the name of the name of the lady of the house's Mother. I never found where perhaps our cousin started working for the Mother and why she took on her name. She never had children or married which sometimes limit the research options. This is a great video!

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About Me

Hello Family Tree Researcher, my name is Jacqueline Joyce Thomas (born to Gene E. Thomas and Brendel Joyce Lewis) of Texas in '67 . I began doing my family tree search when my son (C. Hicks) was born. He was unfortunately born with Nephrogenic Insipidus Diabetes. When he was two weeks old I could not get him to take his formula, the only thing he would drink was water. We took him to the local emergency room, where the hospital staff spent hours doing test after test and the end result were "we are still uncertain of what is wrong with your son". My heart fell to pieces. The next few days, still nothing. Finally on the forty-fifth day of his prolonged stay , they decided to care flight him to a Children's Hospital where it still took nineteen days for the final results and even then they were not sure. The doctor came into the room with his long white doctor's coat and his glasses hanging from his nose with the final thought (not answer). Ms. Hicks (at the time), "could you have a seat?" My thought was, okay then comes "is you son mixed with Caucasian?" My reply with anger and confusion in my heart was, mixed, with who?...not what but who! And not that I was cared or anything, I have mixed nieces and nephews. Then he went on to explain to me that "that type of diabetes was uncommon, and that it only occurred in every three thousand children" annnnndddd'ah-Rah...here is the killer..."that it only occurred in Caucasian males." Gathering my thoughts and physical seemed to be out of the question. It was not until he turned four years old that I begin getting more and more curious. So next to my son being born with a rare type of diabetes that only (according the doctor) in Caucasian males and me being adopted, I became one curious Sista'. The search began.