Things will be slow on this blog for a bit, I'm researching my family tree, and it's very interesting, and has turned into something that I've become obsessed with...
and I think you'll understand from how much, and how indepth I have gotten on a lot of stuff here, that I will spend a ridiculous amount of time on looking into something to get to the bottom of it.
Well, a family tree, is so much more intense than I thought it would be, and so far I'm back as far as 1200 years ago.
That's just on one line of ancestors.
I haven't even looked at their spouse's parents yet
Anyway, I have been focusing on that, and I think it's easy to see that the amount I post here has dropped by 40% at least for the last week.
I'm not sorry, as I have no commitment to this, it's simply something I enjoy a LOT, but I'm a little conflicted - because I do ENJOY the car stuff so darn much.
But I have wanted to know my family tree for about 40 years.
Now, with Ancestry.com, I can actually dig into it from a computer. No trekking to cemeteries, libraries, and govt records.
It won't take forever, and there's only so much that can be looked into with a family tree. Sooner or later, it's going to be complete and I'll be back to working on this to my normal amount of posting every day
and I think you'll understand from how much, and how indepth I have gotten on a lot of stuff here, that I will spend a ridiculous amount of time on looking into something to get to the bottom of it.
Well, a family tree, is so much more intense than I thought it would be, and so far I'm back as far as 1200 years ago.
That's just on one line of ancestors.
I haven't even looked at their spouse's parents yet
Anyway, I have been focusing on that, and I think it's easy to see that the amount I post here has dropped by 40% at least for the last week.
I'm not sorry, as I have no commitment to this, it's simply something I enjoy a LOT, but I'm a little conflicted - because I do ENJOY the car stuff so darn much.
But I have wanted to know my family tree for about 40 years.
Now, with Ancestry.com, I can actually dig into it from a computer. No trekking to cemeteries, libraries, and govt records.
It won't take forever, and there's only so much that can be looked into with a family tree. Sooner or later, it's going to be complete and I'll be back to working on this to my normal amount of posting every day
Good luck with your search. A second cousin did his family's genealogy about 40 years ago and graciously included that of my immediate family. The trail ran dry about 3 or 4 generations back in Bavaria. There's a lot online now, especially if your family was of a particular ethnic group that immigrated at a specific time. In my case its Germans from Russia who immigrated here in the latter 19th to early 20'th century to homestead in the great plains.
ReplyDeleteAncestry.com expanded that to indicate the ancestors went all the way to Romania and Croatia.
Jesse that sounds great. I hope you find all that you are looking for and then some. As for Just a Car Guy, I know you'll be putting plenty out there for us when you get around to it. Thanks for letting us know, and thanks for all the great stuff you post here. ;)
ReplyDeleteI have been working on my family tree for 4 years now so be prepared to spent a lot more time doing that. It's so fascinating to look into the past and reveal little known secrets. I had a great aunt who had three still born children that nobody knew about. My father said I was wrong until I showed him the death certificates. Just amazing.
ReplyDeleteWow... story for a story, years ago a guy came knocking on my folks front door. Said, Hi, I think I'm your brother, to my step dad. Turns out, about 70 years ago my step dads mom had a fling with a foreman that came to town to see to the work camp (Ford's Camp One, Sidnaw Mi - was loggers getting wood for the infrastructure for earliest Model ts with the wood frame under the cab body panels) and the foreman stayed at her families boarding house/hotel. She got pregnant, spent time with an aunt out of state, came back and no one but her older sister and parents knew. Once her parents died, only her sister knew, and no one at all knew anything about the baby, until he was in his 70s, knocking on my parents front door with a copy of a hospital form about who gave birth to him. CRAZY reaction in the town gossip mongers after that... after all that quiet little old lady, Nora, had never - ever been anything but the old lady down the street.
DeleteI did the same thing. And you get caught up in the game very quickly. Looking for dates, names, identifying people in photos... It's fascinating. Good luck.
ReplyDeleteHell, I'm not doing anything like photos, I'm simply parents and kid, and that kid's spouse and kid, and that spouses parents, and on and on. Straight V drive from me to how ever far back I can get in every line. I don't care about cousins, etc etc. Just may parents, their parents, theirs, and back and back and back. So far, the 800s is the limit. Other people already added all the info to ancestry, you just have to catch a thread, and then pop around through other threads, and soon enough, wow, pages and pages of notes, etc etc
Deletesomeone volunteered to do my moms history a while back, and turned up some cool info, some of her ancestors came over on the "Hercules" in 1634.
ReplyDeletealso discovered that her fathers grandparents were first cousins.
we always joked that she was from Alabama so she was probably missing a fork in her family tree.
If anyone goes into a family tree deep and accurately enough, they are going to find some weird shit like cousins, 2nd or 3rd cousins too... and remairriages due to early death, death by childbirth, wars, etc.
DeleteToo bad there are no notes about peoples lives... there is some inference, like, died at sea means a sailor, or coming to America. Died in Jamaica means died as crew of a ship that was moving rum, slaves, sugar, or whatever.
I found one "Died in Palestine" aka in the crusades! Effing crusades!
That's some history right there, 1191 Slain Acres, Palestine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Acre_(1189%E2%80%931191)
DeleteIm cool with it.
ReplyDeleteI did dig about my ancestors many years ago. Couple of lines back and I'm from the nobility! Poor one and mostly stick to small estate and lived mostly as soldiers in service of Crown. After move to the lands in east they lost everything and move back to the Crown lands, then turn in to peasantry for couple of generations, then in to workers and now in to middle class.
ReplyDeleteSo you know... don't need to fall on your knees before me, simple bow to the waist will be enough. :D