Is he the guy?

Genealogical research often seems like a detective story.  In our house, we watch a lot of detective stories on television and we’ve taken a line from Monk, one of our favorite shows of the genre, and applied it to other shows.  As soon as we guess who the villain is, we say “he’s the guy.”  Or if we disprove someone as the villain, we say “he’s not the guy.”

Today I took a quick look on FamilySearch to see if I could find anything on the elder Aaron Lowe, who I wrote about earlier this week.  One newspaper item that I showed mentioned he lived in North Carolina from about the time of the revolution and moved to Georgia in the 1830s.  There are four entries in the U.S. census indexes that could be him, but I don’t yet know for certain.  Using “Aaron Lowe” as the name and “North Carolina” as the place and 1780 to 1820 as the year range, I see four entries for Aaron Low(e) living in Pasquotank, North Carolina, in the 1790, 1800, 1810 and 1820 censuses.  The images are at Ancestry, so I’ll have to go to my local library to look at them, but I’m left to wonder… is he the guy?

Aaron A. Lowe begins to reveal himself

Yesterday, I posed the question asking who was Aaron A. Lowe.  One of the references in that article described an entry for Lottie Horne’s death in the Macon Telegraph.  I hypothesized that Aaron could have been Mary Lowe’s brother.  I haven’t proved that yet, but today I found a little more about Aaron and his family with another connection to Orrin C. Horne.

Surname Saturday: Carstarphen

Today's Surname Saturday post is a bit of a puzzle.  I am not entirely certain that it connects in the way that I have it in my database right now, and the more I look at it, the more likely it is that I have the connection wrong and I may be linking to another family entirely.  In any case, we'll take a look today at the family leading back from what I have currently listed as my fourth-great grandmother, Nancy Elizabeth Carstarphen.

Surname Saturday: Cahoon

Well, here we are at another Saturday and that means another look at a surname that I'm researching.  We come back to my lines this week with one that I learned about only very recently, and that discovery came about after discovering that a surname further down the line was misspelled.  So, today we look at the Cahoon surname connection.