Thank you for this encouragement. There has been a fair amount of genealogy work on my mother's side of the family, but none that I know of on my father's, and I think that the picture that I referred to is on his side, since nobody has been able to identify it. But, like my mother, I'm a packrat, so this photo, along with a bunch of others, is in a box for now.
Thank you for this encouragement. There has been a fair amount of genealogy work on my mother's side of the family, but none that I know of on my father's, and I think that the picture that I referred to is on his side, since nobody has been able to identify it. But, like my mother, I'm a packrat, so this photo, along with a bunch of others, is in a box for now.
I think patience is essential in genealogy work. I have a mystery in my mother's direct line, five generations back. My wife and I have been talking about going on a road trip to Upstate New York and Vermont, to explore several cemeteries in both states, and research materials in Rutland, VT. I'll need to get back into the research before we go, hoping thereby to not miss the little hunches that occur after being into it with single-minded focus for hours or days on end. Vermont has digitized a lot of their records, but so far I have been unable to find my great-great-great-great-x-grandmother.
Thank you for this encouragement. There has been a fair amount of genealogy work on my mother's side of the family, but none that I know of on my father's, and I think that the picture that I referred to is on his side, since nobody has been able to identify it. But, like my mother, I'm a packrat, so this photo, along with a bunch of others, is in a box for now.
I think patience is essential in genealogy work. I have a mystery in my mother's direct line, five generations back. My wife and I have been talking about going on a road trip to Upstate New York and Vermont, to explore several cemeteries in both states, and research materials in Rutland, VT. I'll need to get back into the research before we go, hoping thereby to not miss the little hunches that occur after being into it with single-minded focus for hours or days on end. Vermont has digitized a lot of their records, but so far I have been unable to find my great-great-great-great-x-grandmother.