I have been researching Gresham genealogy since 1980. It required going downtown to the Denver Public Library each Sat to read microfilm.
I clearly remember the day I found John Thomas Gresham, the original settler in Leon County, Texas who came in 1847 right after the treaty with the Indians. My heart skipped a beat when I saw a J. T. Grisham on the 1840 census with his wife from Ireland who was ten years older and her 5 sons living in Bolling Green, Alabama. None of my family genealogists had a clue about where he had come from although it was rumored Virginia.
I began by using gigantic paper tree charts down on my living room floor to map out every Gresham in every state and research every John Gresham. That took a while!
Back then, I had to write a letter to the County Clerks and ask for an index, then write again requesting the copy and the cost of the document, send the money and finally, after about 4-6 months, I received a copy of the will or deed. Now we do this by a click of the finger on our computer keyboards. Most really good research is still done by reading microfilm at a local library and looking at loose papers at the courthouses.
I am a graduate of the Univ of Colorado at Denver and now retired in East Texas. My tree on Ancestry is Gresham, Robinson and Allied Families and my user name is gresham970 if you want to look at my research notes.
My deepest fear is that Find A Grave will not stay absolutely factual and become full of errors like so many other genealogy sites.
My Facebook page is Public. Mary L. Gresham

I have been researching Gresham genealogy since 1980. It required going downtown to the Denver Public Library each Sat to read microfilm.
I clearly remember the day I found John Thomas Gresham, the original settler in Leon County, Texas who came in 1847 right after the treaty with the Indians. My heart skipped a beat when I saw a J. T. Grisham on the 1840 census with his wife from Ireland who was ten years older and her 5 sons living in Bolling Green, Alabama. None of my family genealogists had a clue about where he had come from although it was rumored Virginia.
I began by using gigantic paper tree charts down on my living room floor to map out every Gresham in every state and research every John Gresham. That took a while!
Back then, I had to write a letter to the County Clerks and ask for an index, then write again requesting the copy and the cost of the document, send the money and finally, after about 4-6 months, I received a copy of the will or deed. Now we do this by a click of the finger on our computer keyboards. Most really good research is still done by reading microfilm at a local library and looking at loose papers at the courthouses.
I am a graduate of the Univ of Colorado at Denver and now retired in East Texas. My tree on Ancestry is Gresham, Robinson and Allied Families and my user name is gresham970 if you want to look at my research notes.
My deepest fear is that Find A Grave will not stay absolutely factual and become full of errors like so many other genealogy sites.
My Facebook page is Public. Mary L. Gresham