Genealogy

[cayenne47]

My aunt, who is in her 70's , is the family genealogist. Since no one else is interested, I am being 'groomed' for the job, lol.

I was thinking it would be cool to have a forum here dedicated to this. Who knows, we may be more closely related than we think? :baby04:
Here goes:
This is a 5-generation picture. My mom is the baby. If you look closely you can see the names of the women underneath. Is anyone related to me? LOL


They are, from left to right:Emma Davies Hewitt,Emma Jane Hewitt Storey,Emma Jane Storey Cooke,Susan Jane Cooke Olin, and my Mom...barbara jane olin.

[james dilley]

My Family tree traces back 700 plus years Beleive it or not.

[tinda]

My first ancestor on this continent was the cooper at Plymouth Colony. They arrived from England in 1638.
Beyond that, the family has been traced bck to the 1200s in Scotland. www.Ancestry.com is a good place to start. It is the LDS site and has traced families geneology regardless of their nationality or religion.

tinda

P.S. a cooper is the person who makes wooden pails, barrels, etc.
his last name was Maycumber, later changed to McComber.

[cayenne47]

my grandfathers side of the family came from wales...the first john olin was an impressed sailor in the british navy who jumped ship in 1622.
the cookes were intermarried with the brewsters of the mayflower.
I know shes got it back farther than that but thats all i can think of off the top of my head lol.

[mistletoad]

I am a professional genealogist, but I come here to escape from work! lol

[cayenne47]

[hoggie]

Cool Mistletoad - I didn't know there were professional genealogists. Always thought people just did it for a hobby. Nice job

hoggie

[Spinner]

mistletoad, that is so cool. How did you become a pro? Sounds like a fun job for someone who loves history and research.

I'm the family genealogist for our family. Lots of the younger generation are interested and I love sharing with them.

Now to find out if I'm related to anyone here...

Is Robert E. Lee in your ancestory?
How about Oliver Loving of the Goodnight Loving Trail?
The actor James Arness? or his brother Peter Graves?
Any members of the Lonesome Dove church in either Tenn or Texas from the 1700's or 1800's?

They are all relatives of mine.

[mistletoad]

It is a cool job. I started researching when I was 16 (my mother had watched Roots and wanted to trace our family tree but didn't want to go by herself so I was dragged along). Turned out I was pretty good at it.

When I moved to the US I started tracing DH's family and eventually people started approaching me at the national archives - people assumed I worked there though I never tried to give that impression and I always answered with "well I don't work here, but..." That led to people asking me to finish their research for them and offering to pay me. From there it snowballed. I was hired by a large research firm and a number of years ago I was able to take over the company when the previous owners retired. I have been with USGenWeb since 1996, was instrumental in setting up IIGS and am the current president of USIGS (my term has actually expired, but the board has not held an election to replace me yet).

I am at a point where I can pick and chose which research I do - federal military records at the national archives is my speciality, but I like to research at the Library of Virginia and the DAR Library at Constitution Hall too. I try to avoid the Library of Congress and Philadelphia City Archives, but you don't always know where a search will take you.

As you can tell I could talk about it all day! lol

[cayenne47]

Spinner: My ex husband was a Goodnight. Grand grand nephew of charlie

[Jennifer L.]

Cayenne47, we might be cousins, I've got some Hewitt cousins.

My mother did ours and some of it goes back a long ways to England and Germany. If you can hook into royalty (either side of the blanket) you can back a long ways fast.

Jennifer

[EarlsNan]

First ancestors of mine in the United States were John Hopkins and his family who came over on the Mayflower. My Mom was the genealogist in our family and my sister and I picked up the "bug" from her.

[chickenista]

I would love a genealogy forum. How interesting it would be to see from whence we come.
Simon Aartz DeHart came to New Amsterdam in 1664. He opened a house where new arrivals could stay and get their land legs back. On line there are excerpts from letters and journals of people who had stayed. They tell of where they slept, what they ate and whether the goose was dry, which it was one night.
He had a son ..Simon Aartzen DeHart.. and there hasn't been another Simon DeHart until my son was born. He is so proud of where his name comes from. He's 4 and thinks its neat.

[cayenne47]

THIRTEENTH GENERATION

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4302. Josiah COOKE died on 31 Jan 1731 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. He was born @1645 in Eastham or Plymouth, MA. He was married to Deborah HOPKINS on 27 Jul 1668 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts.

4303. Deborah HOPKINS was born in Jun 1648 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. She died before Dec 1727 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Children were:

i. Richard COOKE was born on 1 Sep 1672.
ii. Elizabeth COOKE was born on 12 Oct 1669.
iii. Josiah COOKE was born on 12 Nov 1670.
iv. Elizabeth COOKE was born in Jun 1674.
v. Caleb COOKE was born on 15 Nov 1676.
1059 vi. Deborah COOKE.
vii. Joshua COOKE was born on 4 Feb 1682.
viii. Benjamin COOKE was born on 28 Feb 1686/

[Bink]

This is great-great-grandfather, Harvey Collins

he is some type of great-great-uncle to Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine. I have the letter informing his daughters that he was murdered in California.

We have an old album full of Collinses we don't know. I'd written Susan once, offering to send her a CD of the pics in case they were relatives they'd know/want pictures of, but I never heard back. :/
Guess we're on the wrong side of the tracks. Imagine that.

[frogmammy]

Since I am getting older I'm worried about what will happen to my research when I die. Don't know anyone in the family who is interested in genealogy and I hate to think of the cost to someone in the future who decides they need ALL those birth/death certificates!

It took me seven years to find out when/where my great-great grandmother died and I wonder who in the future will look for her for seven years (or more). What about all the family tombstones I've photographed, all the rubbings I've done?

All you Mayflower people...my husbands great-great-great-great grandfather Beaumont was married to Fear Alden.

Mon..related to Sullivant/White/Dye/Stafford/Bye/Hands/Donihue/Hutchins

[Bink]

Originally Posted by frogmammy

It took me seven years to find out when/where my great-great grandmother died and I wonder who in the future will look for her for seven years (or more). What about all the family tombstones I've photographed, all the rubbings I've done?

Donate 'em to LDS. They should be happy to have them, will take care of your info, and someone somewhere down the line will be delighted to stumble upon it.

[BeeFree]

What some wonderful old pictures.

I have dibbled in genealogy a bit, but keep coming up with brick walls. I was told that my Ggmother was half Indian, but so far I have not found anything to verify that.

I have tried finding out who my DH's Ggrandfather's parents were, but can't get anywhere on that one either.

[sheepish]

My second daughter works for a photography store. They like to use photos belonging to staff in the frames they sell.

One day a young woman brought a frame with one of these pictures to the desk and said she wanted to buy it. As the clerk began to take the picture out of the frame, she said, "No I want the picture, too. It looks just like one my mother has."

Fortunately, my daughter, who owned the print was on duty at the time and told the customer it was the wedding picture of her great great grandparents, Donald McEachern and his wife Catherine McDougall.

"My grandmother was a McEachern." said the customer. "I better phone my mom."

Once they both contacted their mothers, they discovered that they are 3rd cousins, sharing the pictured set of great grandparents. Each of them had recently moved to a city far from their birthplace. I actually had this young woman in my database, thanks to another relative.

[goatsareus]

I have been researching my family genealogy since 2002, I definitely have the bug. I will cut and paste a paragraph from one of my stories.

"I have been astonished at the number of my ancestors who arrived on these shores in the 1600's; Anthony Brackett in 1623 or 1624, George Cleeve in 1630 or 1631, Edward Starbuck in 1633, John Manning in 1635, Roger Shaw in 1636, Michael Mitton, prob. 1637, William Partridge in 1639, Rose Stoughton, 1643, Thomas Sleeper, 1646, James Prescott, 1665, William Clayton and Prudence Lanckford in 1677, and the families of John Simcock, George Pownall, James Paxson, Nicholas Waln, Edward Carter and Mariam Short who came across in 1682 on the ships of William Penn. A few years later the Quakers Thomas Martin and Margery Mendenhall arrived in 1685. Gabriel LaBoyteaux came from France in 1687, as a result of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Most of these ancestors were escaping religious persecution. My most recent emigrants, the John Clayton and Mary Bate family emigrated from Derbyshire in 1839 to escape the economic conditions of pre industrial England."

This is a wonderful time to start researching your families. The internet provides an unprecedented opportunity to research genealogy.