Our Family Tree

[sutillman]

My older sister is the historian of the newer generation in our family. Our aunts really did all the research and we have really great records they passed down. She started researching my mother's side of the family and found out that our great,great, great grandfather was a midget in a traveling circus and married an indian woman. She couldn't find any other info after that. It's amazing the things you discover about your family.

 

[oldrooster]

Ewesheep, I feel your pain with the names being the same...In my family they favored the male names of Peter, Frederick and one other, and the female names of Sarah, Elizabeth, Anne and Mary. Big family, lots of people with the same first names, and they liked marrying their cousins. So you get multiple generations of Peter Branstetters marrying Sarahs, Elizabeths or Anne Branstetters.

I'm not sure what this says about that branch of the family...too many people with the same last name? Unimaginative at looking for a mate? Wanted a girl just like mom, right down to exactly the same name? I'm just surprised that non of them seem to have three eyes.

With the Scandanavian names, you might want to keep in mind that first sons were named for their paternal grandfathers, and then took their father's first name for a last names....Anders Jansen's first born son would be Jan Anderson, and his firstborn grandson would be again Anders Jansen. Same names, offset by one generation.

My mother is one of 8 4 boys 4 girls 3 of her brothers married women with the same first name as her (one of them even shared the same middle name) before she got married. So there where 4 women with the same first and last name in her family, one brother divorced and married a woman with my mom's twin sisters first name. My mom married and had 2 nephews with the same first name as my father (her husband) one married a woman with her first name so there where 2 couples with the same first names (different last names) the nephew finally divorced then and my brother decided to marry a woman with the same first name as mom. so there is still 4 women in the family with the same first name. one of my mom's brother's kids had a family get together and his aunt (who I never met before on his moms side) asks where (popular name) is? I asked which one? she shouted my sister that's who! and stomps off I turned to other uncle's wife and asked, with 4 of your with that first name how am I supposed to know who she is talking about? she said she couldn't figure that out either.

 

[dascountry]

Found three more application forms that have indirect relatives that fought in the Revolution. The most interesting thing is when I discovered that two of my direct ancestors are on the founders plaque in Founder's Park, (Mendon) Massachusetts!

My mothers side of the family came from Mendon and we are related to President WM. H. Taft. We are not in his direct line though.
She has did a lot of the research for our family line. I have completed a lot on my fathers side. And between my husbands Aunt and I we have been able to uncover a lot of the family tree. Which has not been easy as alot of you have said. But it is such a thrill to uncover a lead and go from there. I'm sure you know what I mean. This makes me want to get the research out again and start looking some more.

 

[MuckyPuppy]

Oh wow, we must be related somewhere down the line! I am related to the Thayers, the Aldrichs and the Wilkinsons who I believe are all from Mendon. How absolutely wonderful!

 

[KnobbyOaks]

The grandfather in question had four generations of same name.....

My uncle, Wm H Carlson (b. 1942), his father (my grandfather) was Wm H Carlson (1917), then his father was also Wm H Carlson (1870) and his father, emigrated from Sweden, was also Wm H Carlson but something tells me that his name could have been Wilhelm H Karlsson or something related. Not sure if Sweden and Denmark are the same thing to the people who were writing the documents down.

That was the frustrating part. With eight silbings, how can one missed it a mile away? The Wm H Carlson (1870) was the most problematic ancestor I've had!

In Sweden, the chances are good, but not guaranteed, that William Carlson's father's first name was Carl and his last name was "fathers-first-name"son. His sister might be named Anna Carlsdotter. The Scandinavians have really good birth, baptism, marriage and death records archived in their churches because it was a state religion then. Now you just have to know where they came from.

 

[MuckyPuppy]

I do find now that I wish health history on ancestors were available. So far I have had a benign "chest" tumor, my dad has had a benign thyroid tumor, my sister a benign brain tumor (as benign as a brain tumor that was causing headaches and vision, balance and movement problems can be) and my mom a benign "chest" and hip tumor. My sister's brain tumor was this year as was the tumor in my mom's hip (last week). Mom fell while in the garden and the pressure of the tumor cause her leg to break. 4 out of a family of six is making me go hmmmmmm. I think that there have been quite a few cases of cancer in my dad's side of the family and our niece on my hubby's side had and survived two (concurrent) types of leukemia. So

 

[dascountry]

Quote: My great great great thats right 3 greats grandmothers name was Sabra Aldrich born 8-16-1795 died 6-14-1887 any relation?

 

[MuckyPuppy]

My great great great thats right 3 greats grandmothers name was Sabra Aldrich born 8-16-1795 died 6-14-1887 any relation?

Mine is Huldah Aldrich 1680-1727. I have her father down as Jacob 1652-1695. Mine are well before yours so I'll try and see if I can find a link.

 

[MuckyPuppy]

Hummmmm, Do you know her father's name and dob-dod?

I have my line looking like this

George Aldrich m C/Katherine Seald - Jacob Aldrich
m - Huldah Aldrich m Samuel Wilkinson - Plain Wilkinson
Ferdinando Thayer m Huldah Hayward - Huldah Thayer

 

[dascountry]

This is what I have for my Aldrich family: Starting with Sabra's father then his father and so forth; Gardner Aldrich 4-17-1768/5-28-1853 Sylvanus{Syranus} 4-21-1722/10-6-1773, Peter 1683/5-27-1762, Samuel 11-1661 4-2-1747, Joseph 6-4-1635/4-24-1701, George was the immigrant born abt 1600 death 1682 came to America in Nov 1631 probably on the ship Lyon Was amoung the seven proprietor families of Mendon Mass he was a tailor by trade. Ancestor of Nelson "Aldrich" Rockefeller. Sabra had married Jesse Taft. My mother is a Taft.

Hey cousin I just connected the George! Same here Mine married Katherine Seald also. Yeah I had read yours again to notice the George after I wrote mine....been along day, I'm not going to blame it on my age!