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christinenorris

Hodge Podge

Jul 14, 2006 07:47

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Getting Lucky in the Cemetary... elizabethcbunce July 14 2006, 18:00:18 UTC

Hee-hee. I can relate. The first time DH and I hit an old cemetary looking for relatives, we scoured the plot, peering in closely at every tiny, buried, nearly obliterated stone. Finally, just as we had given up, (and in a coincidence that would NEVER work in fiction), the caretaker showed up! We said, "Is there a stone here for Bunce?" The man just eyed us like we were idiotic city slickers, and pointed to one of the largest monuments there. We must have walked past this 5'x4' stone 25 times without ever looking at it.

kbaccellia July 14 2006, 21:31:18 UTC

Oh, I love doing family history! As a matter of fact I was my church's regional genealogy director for a couple of years.

A few years ago, I went to the cemetery in old town Sacramento, looking for my great-grandfather's plot and found out that during the 50's or so they had moved some of the graves to another site a few blocks away. But I did find out about him in an old ledger dated around 1906. Pretty cool.

christinenorris July 14 2006, 22:28:27 UTC

I've gotten pretty far. Once you get back past 1840, which I was able to do using census reports, you have to start looking at wills, orphan courts and in cemetaries. Eventually I'm going to run out of years before America was a country, or until someone got off a boat, but I'm not there yet. Almost.

kbaccellia July 14 2006, 22:40:32 UTC

Good site to check for info on your ancestors is www.ancestry.com. My husband used this site alot to help others find out more about their ancestors. Check out the census records--pretty cool. I found my grandfather's mother's family this way and also where in Mexico they were from. I think you can get a free trial membership.

Have you also looked up the daughters of the revolution? They have tons of info on family history going back to the American revolution and then some.

christinenorris July 14 2006, 22:45:02 UTC

I have a subscription. :) And my father's mother is a member of the DAR. What I'm doing now is my mother's side.