Not much exciting this week research-wise. I started on Susannah Cox Ballard and her husband James Ballard. I was able to research their first born, Elizabeth Ballard who married Robert Gregory. I did explore their three children a bit. Two married and moved to the Kansas City area. William, the second son, was mayor for a short time and later operated a wholesale grocery store in that town. The third remained married for a number of years, but divorced and lived a long life in Memphis. I would have enjoyed exploring this family further, however, it is not in the scope of this project. There is a fair amount of information in The Other Polks and I may revisit these cousins at a later date. I must move on to Elizabeth’s brother Benjamin.

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This week Ancestry gave me three new errors to resolve. I have 5291 errors in the tree–376 possible duplicates, 4311 with no documents, 604 other errors.

• A 3rd cousin with no records attached. Found a record to clear the error.
• A mother-in-law of a distant cousin with no records attached. She was deleted.
• The spouse of a 1st cousin 2x removed with no records attached. Found several records to clear the error.

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This week in the past…
I’d like to take an opportunity to celebrate the anniversaries of births, marriages, and deaths of my bloodlines which will occur during the week ahead.
282 years ago – death of Louis DeMoss (7th ggf)
270 years ago – birth of John McCullough (5th ggf)
166 years ago – death of Eva Korz Keller (4th ggm)
164 years ago – birth of James S Cardinal (2nd ggf)
158 years ago – marriage of Amanda Newcomb (3rd ggm) and Eli T. Butler (3rd ggf)
144 years ago – birth of Junie Bennett Fielden (2nd ggm)

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Goals and progress…
Beginning of Week: 27,977 people
End of Week: 27,990 people
Change = +13 persons
Tasks for coming week:

• Focus on Susannah Cox + James Ballard
• Review the information in The Other Polks to see if there is anything I don’t already have
• Continue data mining on Ben Cox and Sarah Piety
• Confirm the data from Polk Family and Kinsmen has been added for this family and page numbers are noted for easier citation adding
• Review Coxes of Cox Creek
• Review History of Mariah Creek Christian Church
• Review bio of James Ballard, husband of Susannah Cox