The family would like to extend a warm welcome to our newest family twig!!

Eyes on the prize is the most important documentary ever made about the Civil Rights Movement --but copyright restrictions have kept it from the public from the last 10 years.  We cannot let this continue.  On February 8th help us bring this film back to a nationwide audience.  Read more

Former student of Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver....Read more

Newly minted Democratic nominee Pebblin Warren hopes her fellow registered Democrats have not grown tired of  turning out to the polls......Read more

Visit Tuskegee as it celebrates the "Year of Alabama Food".  Read more

Pebblin W. Warren and  Katy Smith Campbell, both of Tuskegee, faced off Tuesday in the Democratic runoff for House District 82.  Read more

A group of military officers from Montgomery spent part of Saturday on a special mission--helping prepare a site where hundreds of black pilots and mechanics became the Tuskegee Airmen.  Read more

Alfred Davis, Durham's solid waste management director, has been named the new city manager of Tuskegee, Ala.  Read more

After two years of extensive construction, Austin's only African-American  museum is about to reopen.  Read more

We give honor today to a man who stood for justice, love, harmony, peace, understanding and many more great things.  A man who changed a nation to embrace to true meaning of the words "all men are created equal".  I have a Dream Speech

Today, I received the death certificate of Hattie Harris-Streeter my paternal great-grand aunt. Only the next of kin can obtain a death certificate which gives the cause of death from Florida Vital Records.  This death certificate omits this information.  Also, it contains a few minor errors. 

Date of Birth:  December 25, 1886 (the exact month and day was unknown until now).
Birthplace:  Macon County, GA (should be Macon County, AL)
Date of Death:  August 9, 1966  (the exact month and day was unkown until now).
Place of Death:  West Palm Beach, FL - inside the city limit
Palm Beach County Hospital
Occupation:  Harvester on farm
Father's Name:  Balmer Harris (should be Bamma or Alabama Harris)
Mother's Name:  Della ?  - [maiden name was Wilson]
Age at death:  79
Informant's Name - Felix Streeter [son]
Informant's Address - PO Box 3, Pelican Lake, FL
Body was removed on August 11, 1966 and sent to Chehaw, Ala.
The name of the funeral home is illegible but the location is in Belle Glade, Fla.

An 82-year old grocer  has been buying alot of real estate in Chester and Chester Township, PA....Read more

Raytheon's Company Chairman and CEO, William H. Swanson will visit Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Ala., today to meet and acknowledge the first class of Raytheon scholars, a select group of highly talented engineer and computer science students. Read more

Tuskegee Airman Beecher Alexander  Jones was born January  17, 1922 in Chillicothe (Ohio) to the late C. A. Jones and Rose Ann (Raney) Jones.  Read more

Three additional photographs that are unknown has been included in the Tuskegee Folks photo database.  If you can identify any of these photos, please contact me.

William C. Lennard stood on the front porch of a tin-roofed replica log cabin like a proud father. A new interactive exhibit he helped build for George Washington Carver Museum at Tuskegee University... Read more

Today, I added photographs of folks who appeared in my Aunt Jessie's photo album.  For the past few years, I have been scanning and attempting to include these as a separate webpage.  However, this blog layout has allowed me  to add these easily and effortlessly.  I have very little or no knowledge of the folks pictured here.  If  any of these surames or photographs look familiar to you or if you wish to add any of your related photographs to the collection, please contact me at dhargrove7@aol.com.  View photos by clicking on the folder labeled "Tuskegee Folks" located to the left of this posting.

After a long day of work, I'm most anxious to get home to browse the internet and to open the mail--especially after sending for any information that would enlighten the ongoing genealogy research!  Well, today was no exception, there was something in the mail. In a previous post, it was noted that the trek was for finding more about Rebecca Thomas--married name could have been Fitzpatrick.  I bypassed the bills (will tackle them later) to see an extraordinary find--a reponse from the Social Security Administration.  I sat down with my thoughts and began to open the letter and realized the first name matched.  However, it was downhill from there.  When trying to trace an ancestor through the Social Security Administration, most folks use Ancestry.com as a "lead" in the right direction.  Sometimes this can be tricky (like what happened to me)!  Firstly, the cost of these applications, up until July 1, 2001, maybe 2002, was only $7.00.  Before the June 30th deadline, I did a mad dash to obtain about 7 at a total cost of $49.  On July 1st, the cost increased by 400% to $27 per request!!  Now, what if the application you receive is not what you wanted!  SSA says it's your problem!  Well, this is exactly what happened with this newly arrived SS data.  The application SS# matched the name for Rebecca Fitzpatrick found in the Ancestry database.  But, this was not the name on the SS Application!  This application is for a Rebecca Williams Gates whose parents were Bryant Williams and Clara Sanders of Chelsea, Macon County, Alabama.  This is just a few of the disappoints of genealogy research.  Well, all is not lost -- I still have Hattie Harris' possible death certificate to wait on.

Tuskegee police are still investigating the death of 29-year old Winston Deroyal Carter....Read  more

During the month of  December 2004 the following research activities were conducted:

1)  Contacted the Florida Vital Records for the death record of Hattie Harris-Streeter.  Based on information furnished by her daughter, Daisy Brown, Hattie died in 1966.

2)  Sent a request to the Social Security Administration for a copy of the registration for a Rebecca Fitzpatrick--possibly the sister of Hannah Thomas.  Rebecca died during the 1970's.  I do remember my mom, grandmother and Uncle Buster driving to Montgomery, Alabama to attend her funeral.

Research findings will be posted upon receipt of response.

A few days ago, while browsing switchboard.com , I decided to search for Tarver descendants in Chicago, IL.  I remembered the name Mattie Tarver and began to view the various names that were listed.  I called the first Mattie Tarver I came across and lo and behold it was a connection!  Mattie Tarver is the daughter of Isie Webb who had two other siblings William Webb, Jr and Mattie Webb

This is my very first blog!  The primary purpose of this blog is to complement my genealogy website and to keep family members abreast of all the happenings as we gear up for Reunion 2005!  For over the past 10 years I have been diligently researching family history though oral histories, bible records, census records, birth and death records, slave data and other resources.