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Criminal trials are not normally held at the Baxter County Fairgrounds, but the COVID-19 pandemic created a "new normal" in the way courts operate. On Monday, a

Time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Here is your assignment, should you decide to accept it (you ARE reading this, so I assume that you really want to play along - cue the Mission Impossible music!): 1)  Almost  all of us have genealogy software that we use to manage our research and our family tree.  Some researchers use only an online family tree.  What do you use? 2)  For this week's SNGF, tell us how many "trees" (or "bushes)" you have in your genealogy management program database.  How did you figure it out?  Also, where do you have online trees? 3)  Tell us about it in your own ...

  For Mother's Day, I thought I would post something about my mother's ancestry, and about my mitochondrial DNA which I received from her.  My mitochondrial DNA haplogroup is K1b2b (per 23andMe), which I received from my mother, and she received it from her mother, and she from her mother, and so on down the line for time immemorial (with mutations every so often, probably). Here is a favorite photograph of my mother, with her mother, and her mother's mother: This is the only three generation photograph I have of my mother's matrilineal line. My (and my brothers') matrilineal line is:

James Seawell A man who once rode his old bicycle into the Mountain Home Walmart and rode out with a new one while allegedly proclaiming he was a police officer made an appearance in Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday. Fifty-two-year-old James John Seawell of Mountain Home entered a guilty plea to charges in the bicycle case and two drug-related cases. He was sentenced to five years in prison by Circuit Judge John Putman. Seawell was last arrested on drug charges in December 2020 when he was found to be in possession of methamphetamine. He was also arrested September 12 last year for posses...

Photo: Mika Seay Mika Seay, charged with criminal attempt to commit first-degree murder, domestic battery and commission of a felony with a firearm, was found not guilty in Baxter County Circuit Court Wednesday. The case was unusual in that the victim, 33-year-old Stephen Loosey, claims he was shot accidentally through his own negligence, while the state charged the 37-year-old Seay, the victim’s ex-wife, with intentionally pulling the trigger. Circuit Judge John Putman presided over the non-jury trial. After both sides rested Wednesday, Judge Putman wasted little time in ruling on the case...