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Category: Roane family
Posts relating to the Roane family’s history & genealogy
Pleasant Roane Part II: An unexpected link to Thomas Jefferson and Monticello
There are times when my adventures in genealogy blow my mind. This is one of them.…
Pleasant Roane (Rowan) and the road to manumission in Lynchburg
I’ve been meaning to write about Pleasant Roane for quite a while. I’ve always felt badly…
Amy Roan of Halifax, North Carolina: a mystery with some answers
Last Wills and Testaments are an essential part of my ‘go to’ tool kit when researching…
When family history turns into a ‘Game of Thrones’ episode
I’ve just finished the first phase of an enormous 3-day genealogy project: researching and compiling the family…
Mapping my father’s mtDNA to African tribes
It probably comes as no surprise that I’m a conceptual thinker. And few things aid my…
Descendants of Judge Spencer Ball Roane
This update has been a long time coming. Family Tree Key: This family tree is arranged…
The Roanes of Virginia: 2 families with the same surname. Are they related or not?
What could possible be confusing about two immigrant families coming from the same region in Europe…
Black in the USSR: The life of Joseph Jepthro Roane
It’s funny how you search for the story of one ancestor and stumble upon another’s story…