No, I'm not into geneology at all, but my father has a cousin who is and has sent on some info. Also, my mother's nephew is putting something together for that side of the family.

My brother delved into our family's tree many years ago. He discovered that our paternal grandmother, Francis Ward who died at 96 yrs old- had 3 uncles in England,(or was it Wales?).. two of which came to the US-and the one Mr Ward was founder of Montgomery Wards.

I'm been working on it for 15 years. Both my paternal sides are mostly done back to England. I'm the 10th generation born here. My maternal side is still in the works. I need a trip to New England and Canada to do more research.

My sister and I started working on it and in the process discovered a third cousin we knew nothing about who had done all of the research that could be done and shared it all w/ us. We, in turn, became very close to this cousin who died last year. We were so sorry we had not known her all our lives b/c she was delightful.

We also discovered that our daddy's uncle had fathered some children out of wedlock and out of his race which was not something common back then. We met one of them and had a delightful visit.

Our greatgrandparents had a town in Texas named for them and had a plantation w/ slaves. My sister and I have some of the furnishings from that plantation. It's very interesting to do research, and one of the best parts is obtaining wills from these ancestors.

I am very slowly working on mine. DH's cousin did their side way back, but I will have to take the time to input all the info from his old computer printout to my Family Tree program to make much sense of it. It's very hard to follow. It also needs updated for our generation and our kids. That is planned for the spring, when we head out in the motor home. We have several family visits planned along the way, so I can fill in the gaps. I also need to try to do DH's maternal side, but since his grandparents came from Poland, and his uncle is no longer alive, my chances of that are slim. He had gone to visit family in Poland. The kids needed information for school and I wrote down Grandma's maiden name, and I "thought" the towns they came from, but all I can find is names, no towns. I may still have it, just not found yet. I went to the local geneological chapter meeting last night. I will be helping transcribe some of the county birth records for publishing in book form for the chapter. Anyone able to give me a crash course in Excel?! I have never used any spreadsheet in my life! I want no part of committees or officer, but I can learn to do this little stuff!

Tami

My aunt studied geneology for years, and was successful in tracing her mother's family back to the mid-1600's. She organized her findings and had it all bound in a book, with a limited number made for immmediate family. I love it!

Yes, on both parent's sides. I've been involved off and on for about 10 years, picking things up from a brief start that my mother made.

My father's paternal family first arrived here in 1632, with a land grant in what is now Va. Since we are a old southern family, there is a very active group of descendants in my family...even set up a DNA research group to verify.

Through this, I met a second cousin a few years ago...neither of us knew that we existed.

I have a 2nd cousin that has written a book on My Father's family. My mother was adopted, I have been looking for her parents for 8 years with little results. I have names and birth places but that is about all.

both sides of my family have cousins who are doing searches...it's amazing what they come up with!

My cousin did it years ago and I have my entire family tree for my mom's side of the family.

Biological or inherited? I'm adopted so I can't do a biological search, but I have done an inherited search ;o)

years ago, in the late 70's my sister in law filled out for each sibling an "our family" book.

Then the next time my dad was visiting he brought his family history stuff, and we added it.

Now, I filled a book like that for each of my daughters, my two sisters, as well as for a nephew and a niece.

It is a nice way to keep track of baby's birth, and unfortunately also for death.

Moni

Not really, although I did start a journal with some family information.

My half sister played around with it years ago. McCloud has looked up his family just recently.

I've been working on my paternal side for about 12 years. It hasn't been any easy thing to do either. I have it back to my ggg grandfather Emanuel Hudson born in 1789. They were/are from Auburn, NY. Here was the problem. I couldn't find anything about my grandfather. He was 20 years older than my grandmother, and very abusive/alcoholic. They met here in Nebraska, when my grandmother worked in a hotel as a cigar/cigarette lady. He was a salesman for Firestone tires, and stayed in the hotel while here. But he was born and raised in New York. His birth name was Boyd Hudson. Boyd's maternal grandmothers name was Farnam/Farnham. Boyd got into some trouble or for some reason skipped to Canada, and changed his last name to Farnam. So when dad was born he was a Farnam, and so was I. We didn't know about this until I started doing the genealogy. Boyd had been married twice before my grandmother. His first wife went by Hudson, and his next wife went by Farnam, as she didn't know either.
I have these old letters to my grandmother, Boyd's 2nd wife, who was from Canada, sent to her. From them I learned some info, which the family new about. Previous wife, and 2 daughters etc. , brothers names, Boyd's father was a minister. I put out a lot of messages on different genealogy boards, with no connections, because I was looking for 'Boyd Farnam'. Finally, in 1999, I got a response. This man sent me an e-mail saying: "Edward D. Hudson b. 1824 married Mary Elizabeth Farnham in 1853 in Scipio, NY, Cayuga Co. and had a son named Charles H. (Boyds father) Charles H. had sons, two- one named Boyd 1844 and another named Charles b.1886. Probably no help."
Well everything matched. Fathers name, brothers name place of birth, dates etc. I knew I'd found him out. He'd taken his Gmothers maiden name to hide from something, and left for Canada.
This man then sent me all the info he had, which went back to my ggg grandfather. Now I'm kind of at a stand still. I must start digging again, further back, somehow.
Sorry to say, my Dad died in 1997 so he never knew what I'd found out. Maybe he could have been more proud of his ancestors. He only knew of an abusive alcoholic father.
Leslie

I have a cousin who does it, he has found some interesting things. I am not really into it that much myself.

My sister did a search a few years ago. Found a cousin on
the west coast who also had information.

Uncle is BIG into genealogy!

I am sorry, I didn't see this before I posted about geneaology. Just skip mine I am sure anyone interested has already posted here. Vique.
John 3:16

I haven't , but my cousin Marge has. She traced our family, my father's side, from
Marseilles France to New york. There were several marriages to female blackfoot Indians in the midwest.

I have done some work on my father's side. My mother's side is more difficult being that my great grandfather came here from France and there is very little information on that side in the U.S. We do have a family member who supposedly has a trunk full of information on the family in France, but she won't share it. :-( Can't understand that...???????
My husband has done a lot of work on both sides of his family.
From my experience, once you start, it's really hard to stop. Very intriquing.
Lu

I have an aunt, on my father's side, that did it years ago and traced it back to France 1700's. But for some reason she hasn't passed a copy to anyone in my family. We keep asking and maybe someday she will, but she is 97 so time is running out. My DH's brother has done his family to the 1800s. I would like to do my Mom's Irish side.
Clare

My name is Lindsey and I'm a genealogyaholic.

I've been working on our genealogy off and on for the last 20 years. I have a full subscription to Ancestry.com, so I can access any and all info they have; and I also have a fairly robust subscription to Genealogy.com (they do have some different stuff, and the family trees that are submitted are totally different). I also have a subscription to LongLostPeople.com.

In my experience, discoveries come in spurts. Sometimes I'll get on a roll and add a couple hundred new names in a night or two, and other times I go for weeks without finding anything new. And right now it's been a few weeks since I've even attempted any research. But, I was contacted last week by someone who found my web site, and he's sending, via snail mail, copies of a lot of stuff that he has that will tie into my tree. I've been contacted by about half a dozen distant relatives because of my web site, which is cool.

Yeah, once you start, it's impossible to stop!

I've been working on mine for years.

I'm researching the names Higginbottom/Chase/Booth/Monk or Monks from England.

There are so many variant spellings to Higginbottom depending on how the cencus takers heard the name spoke. I am looking for info on Samuel Higginbottom and his family and his wife Hannah Booth and then Raymond Higginbottom and his wife Margaret Chase and her family. Her father's name was Richard Chase who married a Mary Monk or Monks - her father's name was Benjamin Monk or Monks and he was buried in Hollingwood.

Higginbottom's come from Ashton Under Lyne Lancashire - (Hooley Hill and Audenshaw) My Grandfather was a hat manufacturer and hired and housed his siblings. Not sure if the Booths were from Oldham or not. I have hit a brick wall now for a while now. I can't find my Grandpa Raymond Higginbottom anywhere on the free internet sites. There are so many Samuel, George, James Higginbottom's. There seem to be hundreds of Hannah Booth's too. I just can't find which ones that are mine. LOL

I'm also trying to research McClelland and Paul in Port Glasgow Scotland and am having no luck on the free sites. You type the last surname Paul into a search engine and you get every first name Paul but very few Paul's with it as the last name. I am trying to find an Isabel Mclelland my Grandpa's Mother. I don't know his father's name though which doesn't help any.

Heck, I can't even find relatives from the Chase side who live in Ontario - last names Clegg, Taylor, Tilley (from Bellville). My Dad's Mom died when he was 5 and my Grandpa remarried and one of the Chase (Appleton) sisters adopted my Aunt Margaret. Family lost touch after my Grandmother died.

I need help. I think though years ago My Dad's Uncle Ben Chase did the family history. He lived in BC or Alberta. When he died the house keeper ended up with everything so who knows what happened to the information he collected. Too bad it was lost.

Anne