Can you get microfilm-sick?

Does anyone else get motion sickness when you use microfilm? I do. Fortunately, I didn't have to look too long at the Atlanta Constitution microfilm today to find my great-great-grandmother's funeral notice.

Mary Brannon Yancey died 6 July 1960 and the funeral notice was in the paper of 7 July. The reason no library could locate it for me was that obituaries are published on one page of the paper, and funeral notices are published several pages later.

Mary had one child still living (Cliff); Eddie died in 1956 and Pearlie in 1948. Nineteen grandchildren (including my grandmother), and "several" grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The service was at Mayes Ward Funeral Home, which I remember seeing on trips to Marietta.

I'm enjoying all these connections I find as I dig into the past.

James M Yancey (1862-1924)

There are at least two James M Yanceys floating around north Georgia during the late 1800s and early 1900s. The James M Yancey who was my great-great-grandfather was fostered by Washington and Mary Collins (and is listed as James Collins on the 1870 census). He resided in both Milton and Forsyth Counties over his lifetime, and is buried in the Shady Grove Baptist Church cemetery in Cumming (link to FindAGrave here).

He married Mary E Brannon in the mid-1880s, and they had three children who lived to adulthood: Eddie, born in 1888; Clifford, born in 1890; and Pearlie, born in 1892.

The Inferior Court Records for Milton County show that James M Yancey served as Constable for the 842nd militia district in 1895 and 1896 (link to Rootsweb here, records A299 and A317).

James M Yancey's death certificate can be found in Georgia's Virtual Vault (link here). His birthdates differ on his certificate (6 May 1861) and on his tombstone (1862).