My Y-DNA
What My Y-DNA Tells Me About Where I Come From? I started looking for my paternal line in the late 1980’s using what was available at the time: paper records and microfiche. I was hoping to solve the mystery of my 3 great-grandfather David Gibson. But the paper trail led me down a path that […]
Stony Creek Church
Stony Creek Baptist Church Minute Books 1801 – 1811 1811 – 1814 Fort Blackmore Scott County Virginia This copy of what is perhaps the first book of the Stony Creek Primitive Baptist Church, located on Stony creek, near Fort Blackmore, Scott County, Virginia, was in the possession of Mr. Scott Beatright of Colburn, Virginia, […]
My Brick Wall
David Gibson was born probably on May 4, 1838 in Russell or Scott County Virginia. His parents went by the name McKenzie, or a spelling variation of that name. At some point in time young David and his sister Lucinda who is listed as being born in Kentucky in 1847, were informally adopted by a […]