Ancestry/Genealogy

It's be really nice to have a place here to discuss the subject.

I just finished going through my Dad's side of the family. I've always thought of it as being the "shortest branch" of our tree since Dad's grandfather came over from Wales in 1872 and we have not been able to find out anything about his father's parents.

But the Canadian branch of the woman who the Welsh ancestor married - that I have managed to get back to the 1600s in Scotland and in Yorkshire! :woo-hoo: I verified the woman's mother's name - no one researching the family had done that but on the baptismal record of one of her brothers it lists her name with maiden name AND married surname - and her brother and his wife were witnesses! Using her brother's name, I found where he was born and married in Scotland, his parents names, then their brothers and sisters! MOTHERLODE! Following those people took me back another two or three generations.

On the baptismal record of a sister, one of the witnesses was the husband of my great-great-grandmother - the only solid link other than family notes that he was connected to her family. AND it showed a variant spelling that verifies other links.

And Mom and my mother in law never bothered to research siblings - they consider it a waste of time. HAH!