Family History
11-16-2015, 01:36 PM
#121
Funny you'd post this wonderful pic today. Jim and I were reminiscing about family roots after watching Anthony Bourdain's piece on Charleston. We were particularly speaking to the way our cultures are defined in part by the foods we grew up enjoying that were cooked by our grandmothers and so on. My grandmother was largely influenced by my German/French ancestors and the foods she cooked are wonderful memories and of course by the culture of the African American folks who were such a huge part of my past. Love the pic and appreciate your posting it.
04-28-2016, 01:17 AM
#122
Thread Starter
Found this old pic from my fishing days at the camp in NC my uncle was a member of. Spent many, many happy times there. 
Some more pics from the camp on previous pages.
04-28-2016, 01:19 AM
#123
Thread Starter
Anyone want to update/post some family memories? I love old pics.
04-28-2016, 07:30 AM
#124
Setup for my story.....
My wife never knew her father. Through my research I learned he spent nearly 5 years in US Army; from January 1941 to November 1945. During the invasion of Italy and Africa in WWII he was a stretcher-bearer for 3.5 years! As a result he suffered from chronic posttraumatic stress disorder the rest of his life. Her parent’s marriage after the war only lasted 1.5 years. For reasons unknown he never made contact with her afterwards – but we suspect it was due to the wishes of her mother who was a very strong willed person.
She knew nothing of her father or his family until I got digging into it a year and half ago.
Findings
I had no idea when I started researching the ancestor side of her father that my wife would qualify to be a member in the national society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims and the national society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). We discovered her past relatives would be linked to the likes of William Penn, Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Boone, and George Washington. His family was linked to the original settlers of famous Pennsylvania cities like Germantown and Littlestown, be trustees of the first Mennonite Church in America, make world famous Pennsylvania long rifles, fight in the French & Indian, Revolutionary War, Civil War, and future wars. And there would be a connection to the second largest circus in the USA in the early 1800s.
Through my research I was able to contact one of her cousins, a retired minister, who was helpful in confirming my findings. I documented all my findings which resulted in 51 pages of text. It truly opened up a new chapter for my wife and how she felt about her father.
My wife never knew her father. Through my research I learned he spent nearly 5 years in US Army; from January 1941 to November 1945. During the invasion of Italy and Africa in WWII he was a stretcher-bearer for 3.5 years! As a result he suffered from chronic posttraumatic stress disorder the rest of his life. Her parent’s marriage after the war only lasted 1.5 years. For reasons unknown he never made contact with her afterwards – but we suspect it was due to the wishes of her mother who was a very strong willed person.
She knew nothing of her father or his family until I got digging into it a year and half ago.
Findings
I had no idea when I started researching the ancestor side of her father that my wife would qualify to be a member in the national society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims and the national society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). We discovered her past relatives would be linked to the likes of William Penn, Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Boone, and George Washington. His family was linked to the original settlers of famous Pennsylvania cities like Germantown and Littlestown, be trustees of the first Mennonite Church in America, make world famous Pennsylvania long rifles, fight in the French & Indian, Revolutionary War, Civil War, and future wars. And there would be a connection to the second largest circus in the USA in the early 1800s.
Through my research I was able to contact one of her cousins, a retired minister, who was helpful in confirming my findings. I documented all my findings which resulted in 51 pages of text. It truly opened up a new chapter for my wife and how she felt about her father.
04-28-2016, 07:35 AM
#125
Thread Starter
Good story!
04-28-2016, 11:06 AM
#126
Hey Dave, that's a great story. What do you use for a research tool?
04-28-2016, 02:06 PM
#127
Family #1 & #2
Date for earliest person 1755
Number people (online tree) 375
Story pages 126
Family #3
Date for earliest person 1634
Number people (online tree) 166
Story pages 50
Family #4
Date for earliest person 1600
Number people (online tree) 184
Story pages 11
I had planned to check those out this past winter for maybe a month (one month is $20); but for one reason or another I did not find the time. None-the-less the info will all be there when I get back on next winter. So I just saved the emails.
Beware: It can become very addictive and time consuming!
On my side I’ve made numerous contacts with relatives. As MsPerky suggested, photos are always a great find and I was able to share and pick up several with other relatives or other sources previously unknown. I disproved some long believed stories such as +1 cousin’s who all believed their dad was part Blackfoot Indian.
What you want is your own software that “talks” to the site (i.e. Ancestry.com) so you keep everything you put in the Ancestry on your own PC, after your done with Ancestry. II have a Mac so I purchased Family Tree Maker which was considered the best Mac genealogy software a couple years ago. This will give you an idea of what the various software records and how inexpensive it is. The records in the Ancestry cloud can be set up as private or public as you wish.
http://genealogy-software-review.top...logy-software/
04-29-2016, 08:03 AM
#128
I don't have sweet pictures of me fishing. Here's one from my Air Force days. I'm third from the left in the plaid shirt. We were enjoying Christmas without the family.
04-29-2016, 08:11 AM
#129
A young Dave with his first sports car - 62 Spitfire - and second - 63 Vette.
