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okay, where did my last post go?

I had just posted a nice long, chatty post and now it has gone >poof<

Hi Cindy!
Glad to see you here!
I hope you find this forum helpful.
I wasn't sure where to start either...so I just began with myself...then I extended to my parents...full legal names (women always keep maiden names in genealogy), birth dates & places, death dates & places (city, county, state).
Work yourself back through the generations. Add siblings.

Will my maiden name work if my father changed his name when he got married, or do I start with his former name - or my mother's maiden name?

Last edited by Cindy (2008-01-28 20:00:37)

Cindy~What are the given names of your relatives?

I just got a phone call from London from a distant cousin! I've been working on a whole-family genealogy on my father's paternal line, and it paid off. Through Synagogue records, census images and general intutive detective work, I found my patrilineal g-g-grandfather's sister, her husband and their children; my distant cousin saw the name of one of the children in my family tree on Ancestry and tracked me down. He emailed me my third great aunt's birth entry and wedding record to confirm my piecing-together of that part of the ancestral puzzle. I'll post my London Isaacs report in the surname forum.

The earliest stuff on Ancestry.com regarding my Isaacs-Myers family was the 1880 census index compiled by the LDS church, and I'd already seen that at the local Family History Center. Since then, they've posted census images and indices for all the UK and US censuses I'm interested in. Australia unfortunately destroys all its original census documents after extracting the pertinent data, so information about my family when they were in Australia from 1858 to 1870 is sparse. My great grandfather was born there in 1859, but I have been unable to find a record of it, even though I have found birth records for a brother and four sisters (only one of whom survived to the 1880 census).

My other family research has generally been easier, however. I've occasionally found a distant relative who has done a lot of the pertinent research already. If it's sufficiently documented, I dump it into my own tree; if it appears to be unsupported, I copy their findings into the notes for the connecting ancestor but don't actually add their branches simply on their word.

I began by entering family data from my father's notes (which were tangled, but I had his original resource material, so I was able to structure a corrected tree) for his father's side; data from a well-documented published Genealogy on his mother's side; data from a well-documented published genealogy on my mother's father's side; and finally the sketchy family tree my great-aunt had written in the flyleaf of an antique book she gave me when I was about 12 for my mother's mother's side.

These data were all in a piece of software which disappeared long ago, so I exported my gedcom to the Mormon's Personal Ancestral File software. In this way, when I share my family tree with a family member who does not have any software, I can also give them a copy of the software. Besides, PAF doesn't have a new upgrade to learn every year.

I've added details and family members to all of these branches, but especially the originally very sparse patrilineal and matrilineal ones. I've been to Salt Lake City (as well as my local and Los Angeles Family History Centers), Trinidad, Colorado (where my Isaacs family lived for a time), Carlisle, Pennsylvania (whose library has copies of documents on a couple of my mother's lines as well as on my husband's) and London, England. Unfortunately, the day I intended to begin my research at the Public Records Center there, the Underground was bombed. I am glad I got off to a late start that morning, or I could have been trapped for awhile, or worse. At any rate, I didn't get over to the PRC or to Whitechapel where my family lived near the Great Synagogue (which was bombed out of existence during WWII). This, of course, gives me an excuse to go back to England (as if I needed one).

I did my dad's taxes this year (itemized!), so I figured he could give me a full subscription to Ancestry.com for my birthday. He didn't even ask how much it cost (I got him over $5000 in refunds). A lot of the stuff Ancestry makes available they have gleaned from other, free, online sources. I tried to exhaust the free sources before I joined the Dark Side, and even now that I've had Ancestry for a couple of years, I still find treasures offered by state libraries and local historical associations.

Hi Gloria!
Welcome to the group!

I have roots in PA...surname  PERHACS

I'm glad I spoke to my father about his ancestry before he passed away last month. I found out that the real spelling of his father's last name was Cannavacciuolo, even though his father spelled it Cannavaciolo (his first name was Gennaro). That family was from Amalfi, Italy, but I'm not sure of his first name. He also told me the names and places in Italy where his other ancestors were from. I will have to do some research when I get a chance. Joseph Carbone, from Scafa, Italy was in the Italian Navy. Ernest Carbone was Joseph's brother. They were his mother's ancestors.

Just wanted to pop in and wish everyone a great day!

Good morning, Ladies...

Just popping in wth a "hi" and a {{{HUG}}}

Ya'll have a great day!

Hi, Julie. I've been busy with other things. I've even had a call from the DAR I have yet to return. Shame on me.

Sure has been quiet in here lately! I hope all is well with everyone!