Arkansas – Family Locket

RLP 369: Decoding the 1819 Weatherford Assault Case in Frontier Arkansas

Aug 4, 2025

Today’s episode, sponsored by Newspapers.com, focuses on decoding the 1819 Weatherford Assault Case in Frontier Arkansas. Diana introduces the topic of researching challenging court records and how new AI tools can assist with finding, transcribing, and understanding them. She discusses her project to discover the father of Henderson Weatherford, which led her to Lawrence County, Arkansas, court records. Diana explains how FamilySearch’s Full-Text search capability helped her find records for William and Buman/Bunyan Weatherford. Diana...

RLP 273: Brick Wall Ancestor: Clemsy (Cline) Weatherford

Oct 2, 2023

Today’s episode of Research Like a Pro is about Diana’s research on Mary Clemsy (Cline) Weatherford. Clemsy is a brick wall ancestor. We don’t know who her parents were, and record are challenging to come by due to record loss in Izard County, Arkansas. However, Diana shares how she found substitute records at the state and federal level that helped locate a hypothesized father for Clemsy – John C. Cline. FAN club research also helped...

RLP 226: Using the FANs to Find a Female Ancestor’s Father

Nov 7, 2022

Today’s episode of Research Like a Pro is about Diana’s research project on Clemsy Cline, her third-great-grandmother. Clemsy was born about 1817 in Alabama and married Henderson Weatherford. We discuss the first steps in the research like a pro process to decide on an objective, gather and analyze known information, and create a timeline. Transcript Nicole (1s): This is Research Like a Pro episode 226, using the fans to find a female ancestors’ Father. Welcome...

Insights from “A History of the Ozarks” by Brooks Blevins

Jun 17, 2021

When researching your ancestors, have you considered a deep dive into the locality through reading a book? Although articles on Wikipedia or other websites can give us an overview of an area, we might be missing the deeper nuances that can be found in an in-depth scholarly treatment of our research locale. I recently read A History of the Ozarks, Volume 1: The Old Ozarks by Brooks Blevins. With several ancestral lines settling in the...