OOPS!

Apparently I owe everyone, including myself, an apology.

I was aware I had not posted anything in a while but I had no idea it had been nearly eight months. I began this blog over a year ago. Then, life happened!

I was working at the Dallas Public Library part-time (two and a half days, 20 hours per week) and substitute teaching three days. Then the end of school set in and there was going to be no pay check for three months and we needed money during the three month. So, I applied at several places and landed a Customer Service Manager position at Walmart where I now work 30-35 hours per week- . The problem is not necessarily the hours but the time of day worked. I now work seven days a week, different hours each day with no set schedule . Obviously, there is not much time for anything else.

Bottom line is I plan on getting back to posting more frequently than I have been. Sorry.

While I just indicated I had not done anything in the past several months. I have. I have been working on a list of Texas African Americans who served the Confederacy in some capacity. Some served as cooks and body servants and others served as laborers on the breastworks that protected Galveston and Sabine Pass along the Texas Gulf Coast. Several applied for Texas Confederate pensions. Some got them, some did not.

The important thing about this project is it is not acceptable to the current African American community that any African Americans served the Confederacy and African American researchers are missing a treasure trove of great genealogical information by denying their own family history. Hopefully this study will peak their interest and at least alert them they ought to look at the records.

I plan on publishing the reports in several different ways to several different genealogical-historical publications and their audiences. I just need more time to work on the project.