It is so much fun to find a documented line like that...Most of us have at least one or two once we get into the 1700's...
Funny thing, one of my major 16 lines (all 2 great grandparents) I thought I'd know absolutely nothing on the line...lots of reasons...but it turns out that a cousin I found in CA had been researching that family for some time, and since she was a Mormon, had to find out more, so hired a professional researcher in SLC, who traced that family back to Luxembourg, all lines on that line, back to the 1500's, and a few of them into the 1400's...many of them were "winebauers" (winemakers) and hadn't gone much farther than 25 miles or so away from the family... The line that finally did come to the US came in the 1840's...
But that line is still a puzzle to me, because while I have lots of dates and names and the same places....I still don't know what happened to that 2 great grandmother. What was she thinking to just disappear like that????
Someday, if I live long enough, I'll find out what happened. Have been in touch with a few descendents of various lines, but I still know more than they do about things...or so they say anyhow. Hummmmmmmmmmm....Last I knew, she went to Canada near the tundra and stayed there... |
