B W Rex, JD

Professional Genealogist, US Navy veteran, and writer. CWSL JD ‘03, BU OL38. Roots 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇮🇩🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧🇨🇿🇸🇪

[B W Rex, JD @bwrexjd]

I had an amazing time at the @SCGenSociety Genetic Genealogy Conference this past weekend. Attended some informative presentations and was honored to be a speaker and DNA consultant. Enjoyed meeting and talking with some really great people. #Genealogy #geneticgenealogy

[B W Rex, JD @bwrexjd]

These are my AncestryDNA results that were updated back in August. I'm posting here bc I enjoy going back through my media and seeing the differences with each update throughout the year. I wish I had screenshots of my original results from many yrs ago.

[B W Rex, JD @bwrexjd]

@blaine_5 @kgcheng3 Congratulations to you both!

[B W Rex, JD @bwrexjd]

@THE_Gen_Show G grandfather- lighthouse keeper and later sheriff
G grandmother- ferry boat captain
G grandfather- yard foreman for cotton oil mill
G grandmother- housewife

[B W Rex, JD @bwrexjd]

New law (House Bill 450, now Act No. 470) in Louisiana, effective 8/1/2022, provides access to an adopted person's original birth certificate. #adoption #adoptee #birthcertificate #louisiana #law Adoptee Pre-Adoption Certificate | La Dept. of Health https://t.co/DZE9hRJrJa

[B W Rex, JD @bwrexjd]

Can you help with identifying victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre? #Genealogy #unidentified #massgrave #family #familyhistory

[Paul Chiddicks @chiddickstree]

A new #Blog for you to help fill in the missing parts of your #Ancestors life story What Did Our Ancestors Do Between The Census Years? https://t.co/cviudUEgEq… via @chiddickstree #Genealogy #BloggersTribe #FamilyHistory #Census #FamilyTree #AncestryHour #WritingCommunity

[B W Rex, JD @bwrexjd]

Had a great week attending Forensic Genealogy at @GRIPItt Great learning experience and I met a lot of amazing people! Can't wait to take another course! #genealogy #familyhistory #gripitt #genealogyinstitute

[B W Rex, JD @bwrexjd]

"A Dream Delivered: The Lost Letters of Hawkins Wilson" is a powerful and moving film. I hope more families can be reunited like this. I know Hawkins was dancing in Heaven when his family was finally reunited! @HenryLouisGates @neeksmith #genealogy https://t.co/wuVNrFD9TQ

[B W Rex, JD @bwrexjd]

Anthony Anderson Says Filming Ancestry Movie About Descendants of E...https://t.co/eQkvVmzqti

[B W Rex, JD @bwrexjd]

@HenryLouisGates In 1918, he changed his name and moved to MS where he met my great grandmother. My grandfather was born Dec 1919. My great grandfather married another woman in 1919, had 5 children, and became Sheriff of his small town in MS. / End

[B W Rex, JD @bwrexjd]

@HenryLouisGates My grandfather took his mother’s surname and he had no father listed. Found his father through DNA. His father was born to German parents in St Louis where he was raised. In his early 30s, he “got into some trouble” & was said to be on the side of the law. /1

[Henry Louis Gates Jr @HenryLouisGates]

#FindingYourRoots would like to know, what's been your most shocking discovery while researching your family ancestry?

[B W Rex, JD @bwrexjd]

@DLGenealogist 1970

[B W Rex, JD @bwrexjd]

@teal64 Thank you! I’ll post it there.

[B W Rex, JD @bwrexjd]

I'm trying to ID woman on left & woman in the middle. Woman on the right is Martha Etta "Mattie" (Thomas) Watts (13 Sep 1889 Union Parish, LA - 5 Jan 1971 Shreveport, LA). Taken Mother's Day 1946 in Richland Parish, LA. #oldphotos #Genealogy #ancestry #FamilyHistory #Louisiana

[The Fallen Poet @AtiqueMr9]

What's the oldest thing you still have at your home?

[B W Rex, JD @bwrexjd]

@AtiqueMr9 My great grandmother’s antique Singer treadle sewing machine table cabinet cast iron and tiger wood.

[Jade S @_30Genealogist]

For those who have done/doing a #OnePlaceStudy on an asylum/institution did you choose a particular timeframe or census return and researched those at that specific time? or did you do the entire timeline in complete detail? #OnePlaceWednesday #LocalHistory #Genealogy

[B W Rex, JD @bwrexjd]

@MiningthePast @DLGenealogist I became interested in genealogy when I was a kid in the early 80s and my cousin wrote two books on my maternal grandmother’s line. I started asking my grandparents and great grandmother questions about their past. However, I didn’t start digging into records until 1998.

[David Allen Lambert @DLGenealogist]

How many years have you been doing #Genealogy?