Totally Geeking Out *Squee*

[ickaimp]

And another doggie followed me to work today. This one was a female mini-doberman pincher. Skittish thing, ran off before I could get her in the backyard, but she followed me for half a block, barking all the way. *laughs*

OMG. Am having so much fun with the Genealogy lines. Have the Hubbard line traced back to 1799 in Columbus, Ohio (seriously, that line has the weirdest middle names. 'Stocking'-?!), the Korffmann to 1653 in Stein-Bockenheim, Germany and the Reiss to Wonsheim, Germany in 1423. Both Stein-Bockenheim and Wonsheim are small towns in Rhineland.

Tonight, I get to play with Grandpa's notes for the Curfman lines, since the information is slightly different from what I found online and start on the Gorman lines, who are from England. Liverpool, I believe. Then I get to start on the Thompson lines, which Grandpa has notes for as far back as 1832.

Is great fun, like finding where a big ball of many strings leads, or a jigsaw puzzle. So far mostly following paternal lines as far back as I can, cause this can get real complicated real quick. Everyone's been farmers or smiths thus far, which I'm gleeful over. Although Dad assures me there's a snake-oil salesmen on the Thompson line. ^___^

There's quite a few genealogy sites out there, can anyone suggest a good one for posting stuff? Rootsweb seems to have the most complete as far as where my family lines lead, but it also seems like a lot of the sites are all linked together, some free, some not.

p.s. sorry about missing lurker day. ;_;

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[spark-force.livejournal.com]

My mother swears by ancestry.com, but it's pretty expensive. myfamily.com is another one she uses; it has a free option.

[ickaimp.livejournal.com]

Rootsweb is a free section of Ancestry.com, I think. I'm not quite sure how the paid vs free thing works. ^^;;

Hmm... never heard of myfamily, will have to check it out! Thanks!

[spark-force.livejournal.com]

Huh, you're right, they're the same company. Didn't realize that. From what I can tell, ancestry.com seems to be more robust than rootsweb (makes sense, since it costs $$), and lets you search the US Census records (even see the original images), which is pretty neat.

Good luck with the search!

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

That sounds awesome! My genealogy...I only know as far back as my paternal great-grandmother, who came here from Poland at the turn of the century. Went through Ellis Island and everything. I'd like to research it someday. We're convinced that my dad and my aunt's husband (dad's brother-in-law) have a common ancestor because everyone always thinks that they're brothers, rather than Mom and my aunt being sisters XD

*lurks at you*

[saitaina]

Went through Ellis Island and everything. I'd like to research it someday.

Good luck with that, Ellis Island records are very hard to straighten out, especially if they changed her name. My great grandfather came through there and that's as far back as I can trace him since I can't figure out his 'real' last name.

[saitaina]

I've traced my mother back (through maternal then paternal lines) to the Cullison clan of Scotland in the 1500's. We apparently came over with the fishermen to the colonies and never left. Had more trouble with grandpere's paternal line as we run smack into Ellis Island and name changing. Apparently, Loeffler is not Great Grandpere's real last name (and if I can find that, I can find out our ancestors in Germany).

Pere's line is harder as his family is all Ohio farmers and their record keeping is not as good, though I did find out that Beaulha is a family name that's been passed down (Grandmere's name on pere's side).

Intresting notes though: The Cullison side always dies either tragically young or lives forever (80-100), Two sisters married two brothers of related families on their side (could explain some of the problems of my generation), One of my great x5 grandmother's was named Effie (and I don't know why this is intresting, I'm just in love with that name).

I use geneology.com, but I think that's a part of ancestory.com. Generally I just cruise forums of the sites to add branches to my tree and try to get help from others regarding the Ellis island and farmers problems.