Tag: Major Henry Lawrence Sheffey

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Perry Sheffey: snippets of a life played out in the early years of Reconstruction

06/03/2017
Brian Sheffey
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The Virginia, Freedmen’s Bureau Field Office Records (1865-1872) has come up trumps again. Okay, so I…

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Ancestry.com DNA test answers one fundamental question

25/06/2014
Brian Sheffey
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In my previous post Using the right DNA testing tool to answer the right ancestry question…