Half of a Family Found

dusty

dusty

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I have been working since Wednesday on a family history with almost no info from the present day alive members....butttt, I DID IT!!! This afternoon I hit the end of the road for the paternal side of the client's family back to 1704 in the colonies. I am going to get with the maternal side tomorrow. Very interesting people, but ordinary too. Then I have to build a tree for my client and send it off. I think the maternal side is going to go back further, at least I hope it will.

lots of fun!

send me one seed and I'll grow you a tree.
 

dusty said:
I have been working since Wednesday on a family history with almost no info from the present day alive members....butttt, I DID IT!!! This afternoon I hit the end of the road for the paternal side of the client's family back to 1704 in the colonies. I am going to get with the maternal side tomorrow. Very interesting people, but ordinary too. Then I have to build a tree for my client and send it off. I think the maternal side is going to go back further, at least I hope it will.

lots of fun!

send me one seed and I'll grow you a tree.
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What an achievement, well done you.. I wish you were in my country and could find mine....
 
dusty said:
I have been working since Wednesday on a family history with almost no info from the present day alive members....butttt, I DID IT!!! This afternoon I hit the end of the road for the paternal side of the client's family back to 1704 in the colonies. I am going to get with the maternal side tomorrow. Very interesting people, but ordinary too. Then I have to build a tree for my client and send it off. I think the maternal side is going to go back further, at least I hope it will.

lots of fun!

send me one seed and I'll grow you a tree.
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WTG Dusty!! That's really awesome! šŸ„³
 

hollydolly said:
What an achievement, well done you.. I wish you were in my country and could find mine....
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Ah, girl, can' t do over the pond. But if you have any family that ever came here, I'll track them down for ya! Let me know.
 
dusty said:
I have been working since Wednesday on a family history with almost no info from the present day alive members....butttt, I DID IT!!! This afternoon I hit the end of the road for the paternal side of the client's family back to 1704 in the colonies. I am going to get with the maternal side tomorrow. Very interesting people, but ordinary too. Then I have to build a tree for my client and send it off. I think the maternal side is going to go back further, at least I hope it will.

lots of fun!

send me one seed and I'll grow you a tree.
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Great work. So fun breaking through brick walls! I love genealogy and have also done some professional work. My last class for a MLIS was a genealogy elective and the bug bit me! So far, the line I can trace with firm documentation is one of my mom's lines that goes back to Lincolnshire UK to 1515.

I'm especially excited about progress with DNA and especially like Ancestry.com's ThruLines. I've made some breakthroughs using Thrulines but do get frustrated with the user generated errors at Ancestry. I have little hope that it'll ever be a trustworthy site for serious genealogists other than being a good starting place. Oftentimes when I've contacted people with documentation I've found in courthouse searches that show errors in their records, they stick with the error because that's what aunt so-in-so wrote out in the 1940s...errrrrgh! ...then 100 people come along and add the error to their tree. Sometimes people do have verified original sources on there and that's like hitting the jackpot!

I maintain two trees on that site, one speculative and one that has firm documentation.
 
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dusty said:
I have been working since Wednesday on a family history with almost no info from the present day alive members....butttt, I DID IT!!! This afternoon I hit the end of the road for the paternal side of the client's family back to 1704 in the colonies. I am going to get with the maternal side tomorrow. Very interesting people, but ordinary too. Then I have to build a tree for my client and send it off. I think the maternal side is going to go back further, at least I hope it will.

lots of fun!

send me one seed and I'll grow you a tree.
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Happy hunting Dusty!
 
AnnieA said:
Great work. So fun breaking through brick walls! I love genealogy and have also done some professional work. My last class for a MLIS was a genealogy elective and the bug bit me! So far, the line I can trace with firm documentation is one of my mom's lines that goes back to Lincolnshire UK to 1515.

I'm especially excited about progress with DNA and especially like Ancestry.com's ThruLines. I've made some breakthroughs using Thrulines but do get frustrated with the user generated errors at Ancestry. I have little hope that it'll ever be a trustworthy site for serious genealogists other than being a good starting place. Oftentimes when I've contacted people with documentation I've found in courthouse searches that show errors in their records, they stick with the error because that's what aunt so-in-so wrote out in the 1940s...errrrrgh! ...then 100 people come along and add the error to their tree. Sometimes people do have verified original sources on there and that's like hitting the jackpot!

I maintain two trees on that site, one speculative and one that has firm documentation.
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I'm glad to see someone else shares my feelings re Ancestry. I use them and 3 others, plus all locals where I am working. I love it when a family member still has old handwritten records or the family bible! I maintain 3 trees on Ancestry; one for my family, one also speculative and one for my son. I've gone back as far as Robert the Brus in one line a few years ago.

I can sit for hours hunting. For me it is more than a hobby, even though I don't ask for payment. Afer I finish wrapping this one up, I might take a few days off.
 
dusty said:
I'm glad to see someone else shares my feelings re Ancestry. I use them and 3 others, plus all locals where I am working. I love it when a family member still has old handwritten records or the family bible! I maintain 3 trees on Ancestry; one for my family, one also speculative and one for my son. I've gone back as far as Robert the Brus in one line a few years ago.

I can sit for hours hunting. For me it is more than a hobby, even though I don't ask for payment. Afer I finish wrapping this one up, I might take a few days off.
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Have you established a documentary trail to Robert the Bruce? I have a cousin who has put him in her tree for one of our lines, but I haven't been able to find firm, ecclesiastical or legal documentation in Scotland that far back.
 
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