Originally published February 5, 2018.
By Robin Foster >> For the next few blog posts, we will focus on how you might be able to identify your ancestors in resources generated between 1865 to 1876. If you remember, last week we found research avenues in “Identifying Research Avenues for Rev. Lafayette Franklin Vance, (1861-1952).” Well, Rev. Lafayette Franklin Vance is the son of Beverly Vance (1832-1899) and his wife, Matilda Dunlap Vance (1841- ). We searched for Beverly Vance in the voting registrations and found he voted in 1868.