Genealogy is not meant for southerners.

I'm not new to research but I haven't devoted as much time to it as I have wanted. As much as I would love to take pictures of total strangers headstones, I don't have the time to devote to that because I work a lot. If by freak chance I end up managing a memorial of your family member I will gladly transfer it over to you. I will trust you to do with it what's right. I make no personal claim on anyone else's family and would never hold on to their memorial because of a weird game of "finders keepers" or I have developed an unhealthy attachment to dead strangers headstones. I have come across this already and it's not sad- it's beyond bizarre. If I have your relative I'll gladly give them back. Lord knows I have enough of my own. :D

Speaking of which, I'm researching: Plunkett (2 different sets...I hope), Crow/Crowe, Holdbrooks (WITH the 'd'), Fant, Roden (spelled a gazillion ways), Tallent/Talent, Woodall, Hogg, Shearl, Cannon, Nix, Whitworth, Winston, Kile/Kyle, Kemp, Murdoch/Murdock/Murdogh, and Crumly/Crumley. I pray that's all. The ending has generally been in Dekalb (predominantly Sand Mountain), Cherokee, and Etowah counties in Alabama. Starting points have been mainly in Georgia but originally started in South Carolina, Virginia, the random North Carolina. Then there's those pesky Murdoch/Murdock/Murdogh's who started in Scotland, rowed to Ireland, then decided to row to America and marry that "other set" of Plunkett's to cause frustration for a 6th great grandchild who worries they and the "main" Plunkett set are actually related at some point and her family tree doesn't have as many branches on it as it should.

My main focus was my 2nd great grandfather John Rurel Plunkett. It's said he came from Ireland on a ship called City Of Chicago. I hate to break it to my relatives but no he did not. He literally dropped from the Georgia sky in 1881 at the age of 20 married to my 2nd great grandmother Artie Nellie Crow. I can't trace him further back than that, not on any census in Georgia or South Carolina. I have spent hours and hours of futile research and am planning a trip to the county they were married in to see if there's something not on Ancestry.com. In the meantime, if you happen to know a guy that might have known another guy that knew him and has the information I need, please let me know. I might consider giving you some of my other relatives in exchange for it. I have more than my share.

Genealogy is not meant for southerners.

I'm not new to research but I haven't devoted as much time to it as I have wanted. As much as I would love to take pictures of total strangers headstones, I don't have the time to devote to that because I work a lot. If by freak chance I end up managing a memorial of your family member I will gladly transfer it over to you. I will trust you to do with it what's right. I make no personal claim on anyone else's family and would never hold on to their memorial because of a weird game of "finders keepers" or I have developed an unhealthy attachment to dead strangers headstones. I have come across this already and it's not sad- it's beyond bizarre. If I have your relative I'll gladly give them back. Lord knows I have enough of my own. :D

Speaking of which, I'm researching: Plunkett (2 different sets...I hope), Crow/Crowe, Holdbrooks (WITH the 'd'), Fant, Roden (spelled a gazillion ways), Tallent/Talent, Woodall, Hogg, Shearl, Cannon, Nix, Whitworth, Winston, Kile/Kyle, Kemp, Murdoch/Murdock/Murdogh, and Crumly/Crumley. I pray that's all. The ending has generally been in Dekalb (predominantly Sand Mountain), Cherokee, and Etowah counties in Alabama. Starting points have been mainly in Georgia but originally started in South Carolina, Virginia, the random North Carolina. Then there's those pesky Murdoch/Murdock/Murdogh's who started in Scotland, rowed to Ireland, then decided to row to America and marry that "other set" of Plunkett's to cause frustration for a 6th great grandchild who worries they and the "main" Plunkett set are actually related at some point and her family tree doesn't have as many branches on it as it should.

My main focus was my 2nd great grandfather John Rurel Plunkett. It's said he came from Ireland on a ship called City Of Chicago. I hate to break it to my relatives but no he did not. He literally dropped from the Georgia sky in 1881 at the age of 20 married to my 2nd great grandmother Artie Nellie Crow. I can't trace him further back than that, not on any census in Georgia or South Carolina. I have spent hours and hours of futile research and am planning a trip to the county they were married in to see if there's something not on Ancestry.com. In the meantime, if you happen to know a guy that might have known another guy that knew him and has the information I need, please let me know. I might consider giving you some of my other relatives in exchange for it. I have more than my share.