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Ashley Gonzalez
Join me on a genealogical journey into your family past!

Recent Posts

  • Family Legend – Week Two
  • Beginnings – Week One
  • Post Offices of the Past
  • Do You Know About Reclaim the Records?
  • Joseph Martin: The Almost Revolutionary War Patriot

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  • Post Offices of the Past - HeritageTracer on A Shoemaker, a soldier, a farmer: Owen Moore Grimsley
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  • Joseph Martin: The Almost Revolutionary War Patriot - HeritageTracer on The Misadventures of Owen Grimsley as recorded in Newspapers
  • Post Office Application Files - HeritageTracer on A Shoemaker, a soldier, a farmer: Owen Moore Grimsley
  • One or Two Owen Grimsley's? - HeritageTracer on The Misadventures of Owen Grimsley as recorded in Newspapers

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Florida 1860 Map

Welcome to HeritageTracer

November 4, 2018 Ashley Gonzalez Genealogy Help

My goal is to help those with genealogical questions  answer them and to also work with other genealogists to help them build their business. 

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Clara White Arthur Riebe

Family Legend – Week Two

January 10, 2021 Ashley Gonzalez 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks

Every family has that legend where a kernel of truth exists in the hand-me-down telling of the tale. For my Riebe family, it was being a descendant of Peregrine White. As my grandpa Arthur told me the story, he said...

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New Beginnings

Beginnings – Week One

January 3, 2021 Ashley Gonzalez 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks

In December of 2019, I looked forward to setting and smashing my 2020 genealogical goals. Then COVID happened. While the rest of the world seemed to slow down, my life seemed to get busier! Between work (a paying full-time job...

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Post Offices of the Past

December 4, 2020 Ashley Gonzalez History Research

(Originally posted on the Flagler County Historical Society website.) More than 100 years ago, there were many little towns located within the area now known as Flagler County. These towns had a need for postal service and between 1868 and...

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Reclaim the Records

Do You Know About Reclaim the Records?

October 6, 2020 Ashley Gonzalez Genealogy Help Research

Reclaim the Records started as a personal passion project by Brooke Schreier Ganz and grew into a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization. It’s an activist group that uses FOIA – Freedom of Information Act (Federal) and FOIL – Freedom of Information Law...

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1776 Flag

Joseph Martin: The Almost Revolutionary War Patriot

September 25, 2020 Ashley Gonzalez Ashley's Family History ProGen Research

Joseph Martin is my newly discovered 4x great grandfather. During past research for ProGen, I broke down the brick wall that was my 3x great grandmother, Telitha Martin. I realized through newspaper research that her last name was truly Martin...

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Florida St Johns County Chancery Court Records Grimsley Family

Clinton vs. Grimsley & Family

September 13, 2020 Ashley Gonzalez Ashley's Family History Research

Just before COVID 19, a search of the St. Augustine Historical Society library brought up a name I had seen many times but for some reason, ignored. It was a civil court complaint file of Charles M. Clinton vs. Tabitha...

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Census - Department of the South

A Forgotten Census – Florida African American Research

June 21, 2020 Ashley Gonzalez Genealogy Help History Research

I recently learned about a book named “Census” Department of the South November, 1864 For Jacksonville, Fernandina and St. Augustine, Florida Ordered by the Department of the South, Hilton Head, South Carolina by the Florida State Genealogical Society. A super...

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Using Newspapers in your Genealogical Research

May 29, 2020 Ashley Gonzalez Genealogy Help Research

“Which newspaper subscription should I get?” I am asked that question frequently and I see it asked on various Facebook genealogy groups and forums. The answer to that question is, “It depends!” Newspapers are essential in your genealogy tool box...

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Our Anniversary and the Seminole Indian War

May 23, 2020 Ashley Gonzalez Ashley's Family History

We were married on a very hot day 22 years ago, in Washington Oaks State Park, Florida. Shortly after our wedding and honeymoon, the world around us burst into flames as our little slice of paradise caught fire, in what...

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Owasco Post Office

Post Office Application Files

May 19, 2020 Ashley Gonzalez Genealogy Help Research

As genealogists, we always want to know more. More about our ancestors, their back stories and where they came from. In my quest to understand the place Owasco, I stumbled upon the fact this little hamlet located on the eastern...

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