1) My great-grandfather on my dad's father's side is from Detroit, Michigan. His grave is still there. Now I'm all curious and kind of want to go see it
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Could be your great-grandmother's family on your dad's father's side lived in Canada. There are/were a lot of people of Scottish ancestry in Canada. Easier to plan weddings and keep down travel and other expenses if church and family are there in the neighborhood. Of course maybe not, what do the records say? Interesting about the names. My grandmother had us do some research for her in the UW-Madison archives for her. I have Lucinda and Laurantine in mine family tree. Kid I went to school with was saddled with Carlisle Ford for his first two names.
Ooh, fun! We have ancestry.com through work but I haven't tried looking anything up, yet. My boss has found all sorts of stuff about her family on it. Which really impressed me considering the Holocaust and the general destruction of Germany and Austria in WWII.
I did find my Dad's father's family's immigration paperwork when I interned at the National Archives in MA years ago. He was the only sibling born in the US so he wasn't on it.
I setting up the family tree in Ancestry.com, but I'm getting a lot of my information from the Mormon Geneology records (familysearch.org). Which is great it the records are very clear cut. Not so great if there's any doubt and you get multiple records with many variations of the name because people can't be bothered to realize someone's already in there.
It's interesting. I'm trying to track back ancestors to when they came over and am kind of hoping I can get one from the Mayflower, considering that the group I'm working on seemed to have lived in Massachusetts before they migrated to Michigan. ^^
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Interesting about the names. My grandmother had us do some research for her in the UW-Madison archives for her. I have Lucinda and Laurantine in mine family tree. Kid I went to school with was saddled with Carlisle Ford for his first two names.
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I did find my Dad's father's family's immigration paperwork when I interned at the National Archives in MA years ago. He was the only sibling born in the US so he wasn't on it.
Anyway, happy family hunting. ^_^
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It's interesting. I'm trying to track back ancestors to when they came over and am kind of hoping I can get one from the Mayflower, considering that the group I'm working on seemed to have lived in Massachusetts before they migrated to Michigan. ^^
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