Here I am going to give you an update on what else I have found!
1. I now have 1465 people on the extended branches of my tree. That's a lot of branches, twigs and nuts!
2. Still, pretty much nothing but German, Scot, English or Irish farmers, blacksmiths or coopers.
3. 7 generations back in my tree is my 5th great grandmother who is first cousin to Francis Scott Key. He is still the only person on my tree who seems to have been a creative artistic type. Everyone else was busy trying to keep food on the table and had no time for such foolish extravagances.
4. There are going to be lots and lots of new records available this year as the 1940 federal census will become available. So I guess I am going to pay to stay in at least one more year!
5. Sadly and regrettably, I have found a few people who had one or two slaves. They must have been really poor farmers to only have one. But it does something to you when you read about this in your own family. I don't really know what to even say about it. It's a heartbreaking reality.
6. I still think the ancestry work dovetails nicely with my obituary reading. Which I have to get back to! I haven't posted about obits in quite a while.
2. Still, pretty much nothing but German, Scot, English or Irish farmers, blacksmiths or coopers.
3. 7 generations back in my tree is my 5th great grandmother who is first cousin to Francis Scott Key. He is still the only person on my tree who seems to have been a creative artistic type. Everyone else was busy trying to keep food on the table and had no time for such foolish extravagances.
4. There are going to be lots and lots of new records available this year as the 1940 federal census will become available. So I guess I am going to pay to stay in at least one more year!
5. Sadly and regrettably, I have found a few people who had one or two slaves. They must have been really poor farmers to only have one. But it does something to you when you read about this in your own family. I don't really know what to even say about it. It's a heartbreaking reality.
6. I still think the ancestry work dovetails nicely with my obituary reading. Which I have to get back to! I haven't posted about obits in quite a while.
Do you do ancestry work? Are you interested in your family tree? Or are you more the looking forward rather than backward kind of person?
My family tree doesn't branch.
ReplyDeleteOh, I crack myself up.
On my mom's side of the family, I can trace the tree back to the 1600's. English (Wells and Fish), Scottish (Stewart) and German (Sieg).
On my dad's side, I can trace the tree back to my Eastern European great-grandparents and that's about it. I can't even find Ellis Island records which makes me wonder if they slipped under the fence. Or arrived via Canada.
I don't know how I missed this post earlier.
ReplyDeleteYes, I have been pretty much obsessed with my family tree forever. The latest weird finding is that my mother's maternal family decends from a prince of Nothern Wales who just happened to be Jewish. Now his decendants came to the US in the 1700's and were long hunters with Daniel Boone. These Jewish men married Native American women. So I am a decendant of two of the most persecuted peoples on the planet. Yes, it's totally far out.