RLP 256: Alford/Johnson Research – Interview with James Johnson

Today’s episode of Research Like a Pro is an interview with James Wesley Johnson, author of A Horse, A Gunfight, And The Law: A Historical Account of Our Alfords in Texas, and a client of Family Locket Genealogists. He hired us to help verify his family research that uncovered a family secret kept for over 100 years. Join us for a discussion of southern roots, horse thieves, gunfights, the law, and how documentary evidence and DNA evidence confirmed the details of the story.

Transcript

Links

A Horse, A Gunfight, And The Law: A Historical Account of Our Alfords in Texas by James Wesley Johnson – https://www.amazon.com/Horse-Gunfight-Law-Historical-Account/dp/1790569567

Uncovering the True Identity of James William Johnson: Part 1 Examining the FANs by Michelle Mickelson – https://familylocket.com/uncovering-the-true-identity-of-james-william-johnson-part-1-examining-the-fans/

Patrick Matthew “Mace” Alford aka James William Johnson on FamilySearch – https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LZG5-VM2

Wise About Texas podcast: The Texas History Podcast with Ken Wise – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wise-about-texas/id1054860435

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Miriam Robbins

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June 15, 2023 at 7:27 PM

As always, I enjoy your podcasts and this was exceptional. I especially love the idea of putting information into a spreadsheet to help correlate records, events, and to create a timeline. I just recently started putting together information from various records into a spreadsheet to help determine the four wives of my 3rd-great-grandfather, William Parker Wright of Tioga County, New York.

His granddaughter, my great-grandmother, wrote in her family history book that he was married four times, but gave very little additional information. From records, I have the full names of the first and last of the four wives, the first and middle names of the third wife, and one tiny reference in the 1865 New York State Census stating he had been married twice (at that point) and was a widower, which provides evidence–but no other information–about the second wife!

So much fun! Thank you for these interesting podcasts. I look forward to listening to them on my work break walks every week!