By Debra DuPree Williams @DDuPreeWilliams
I spent a bit of
time this week looking into the latest information in the field of genetic
genealogy. Tracing my family’s roots and my husband’s family’s roots has become
a passion of mine. I became interested when I was in my teens, but I had no clue
where to begin. It wasn’t until the 1990s that I immersed myself into figuring
out our roots. I try to stay in touch with the latest innovations available for
my searches.
Two of my
ancestors had done an excellent job of tracing my Daddy’s DuPree side and his
mother’s Burdeshaw side. Let me tell you, I admire these women more than I can
say as their research was done years ago, back in the 1960s, perhaps some of
the work on the Burdeshaw line, in the 1950s. This meant trips to libraries or
to track down relatives unfamiliar to them. Emimae Pritchard
Langley compiled the two-volume set of books titled, The DuPre Trail, and Rhoda
Burdeshaw, missionary to China, wrote the genealogies of my Burdeshaw
relatives.
