Genealogy is a communal effort. Monday night, I returned a phone call to Elyse, genealogy friend (and cousin). During our conversation, I learned about her great-great grandmother, Greenella McNichols: she was born in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi; she died in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, and, she was in buried in Centralia, Illinois—cemetery unknown. Wait…What? I found it odd that her body would have been transported to Illinois—instead of […]