What an amazing archive!

 I have a number of genealogy goals for 2025.  One of them is to make some headway working through the extensive archive of pictures, letters, notes, etc., that my 90 year old mother has accumulated.  I'm talking about 30+ banker's boxes of unorganized papers and pictures.  And that is just the beginning.  Here's what I found in the archive this week that really knocked my socks off.

I have recently inherited land that has been in my family for over 180 years.  Beautiful land in the Great Smoky Mountains of Western North Carolina.  When my uncle transferred ownership to me, he told me he had received the land from his mother (my Grandmother), who had received it from her father and so on back to the first White person to own this land, my 3rd great grandfather, Nathan Tabor.  My uncle had told me that he had a survey of the land, but couldn't lay his hands on it.  Why that survey would be in my mother's possession, I do not know -- but I unearthed it this week, along with the deed that Grandmother signed over to him.  I got chills!

I've been trying to follow the train from the original land grant (from the U. S. Government, after the land was taken from the Cherokee) to one Tabor or another until it found its way to me.  I'm sure a delighted post about finding all of those links will be posted here eventually.  

Next time, I'll post more of my genealogy goals for 2025 and (hopefully) once a week I'll post a joyful discovery.