Nathan
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Well this post ran afoul of the forum's "paragraph police" software and wouldn't let me post it, even with chopping it all into little tiny pieces. So I saved it as a word document and is attached. Let me try this again:
Continuing on with this line of ancestry, which is on my paternal side: I had a lot of information about my paternal grandmother's folks, my dad's 2nd cousin did extensive research and published a book, which I have a copy of. Those folks were all solid Germans, my immigrant ancestor arrived in Philadelphia in 1737.
But, on my Dad's father's side, the bearer of our surname- I wasn't sure of the nationality, could be German, French, English or from any one of a number of countries.
For a while I was operating under the assumption that this line was German, because in genealogy circles the clues to nationality are usually that if a person lives within a group of Germans(for example), does business with Germans or marries Germans...they are generally themself German.
Indeed, my g.g.grandmother who died the same day as dear old g.g.grandfather Levi was certifiably German, this I know from published works by a distant cousin of mine.
However, Levi had 2 previous marriages, the wife he had before my g.g.grandmother had come from a Welsh settlement in Md. Welsh? That ex-wife of Levi was not a genetic ancestor of mine, but does at least casually connect my Levi to...Welsh. Welsh? Not on my radar, but OK...worth some investigation.
To make a long story short, I used the information available on geni.com and found the original immigrant ancestor, who was born in Llanmadoc, Glamorgan, Wales in 1638, and died in Port Tobacco, Charles County, MD in 1688.
If it was worth money to me(LOL) I would want to see birth certificates, grant deeds and wills to establish a paper trail, but I'm satisfied, as there are no indications that would point in a different direction.
Continuing on with this line of ancestry, which is on my paternal side: I had a lot of information about my paternal grandmother's folks, my dad's 2nd cousin did extensive research and published a book, which I have a copy of. Those folks were all solid Germans, my immigrant ancestor arrived in Philadelphia in 1737.
But, on my Dad's father's side, the bearer of our surname- I wasn't sure of the nationality, could be German, French, English or from any one of a number of countries.
For a while I was operating under the assumption that this line was German, because in genealogy circles the clues to nationality are usually that if a person lives within a group of Germans(for example), does business with Germans or marries Germans...they are generally themself German.
Indeed, my g.g.grandmother who died the same day as dear old g.g.grandfather Levi was certifiably German, this I know from published works by a distant cousin of mine.
However, Levi had 2 previous marriages, the wife he had before my g.g.grandmother had come from a Welsh settlement in Md. Welsh? That ex-wife of Levi was not a genetic ancestor of mine, but does at least casually connect my Levi to...Welsh. Welsh? Not on my radar, but OK...worth some investigation.
To make a long story short, I used the information available on geni.com and found the original immigrant ancestor, who was born in Llanmadoc, Glamorgan, Wales in 1638, and died in Port Tobacco, Charles County, MD in 1688.
If it was worth money to me(LOL) I would want to see birth certificates, grant deeds and wills to establish a paper trail, but I'm satisfied, as there are no indications that would point in a different direction.
