The net is sometimes good

[Nut]

Yes it is, I did some research since I been laid up today with being sick.

Well I found a site where someone in my family did some genealogy and put some records up. Well remember the pic of the great-great grandfather I put up. I discovered the year he was born and his parents names. I also found out other neat things about where they are buried. So there is a road trip next summer to find the graves. Kinda morbid in a way.

 

[Tom]

Can't wait.

Take pictures! I guess you could post those at those sites and save others a trip, maybe. Form a group, who ever is closest goes and take the picture. Where are they burried?

 

[Nut]

Tom, I emailed the person who knows where they were buried. A coal mine is operating there and I might not get permission to look also. So I believe it will be difficult to find the graves. But I will also get the address of the coal mine and see if they have any info.

 

[Nut]

Oh this is in Gatliff, Kentucky where my Dad spent the first 17 years of his life and also where I hunted for the first times of mine.

 

[Nut]

Plus it also reminded me that 25 years ago today my Grandpa died.

 

[Tom]

I found an old wooden stake/cross out in the woods hunting once. It had some short name carved in it still. It must have been some early settler type person's grave and who knows if their family has any idea its there. I stayed away from there after that. We find Indian mounds here some too, while out hunting, sometimes. There's geneology clubs and people really work on that. My grandfather came to this country from Hungary. He used to ride in the pony express they had, he was a little guy, and good for the horse covering ground. One day, he just road out of the country. Then, he ended up in Indiana, worked for US Steel many, many years. Him and my grandmother had 5 stars in their window for WW II. 2 aunts, who were WACS ? and one is still kicking, two uncles one Navy, one Army (he was in the Battle of the Bulge, left for dead, after his tank was hit, but he made it back, full of shrapnel, it kept coming out through his skin in little pieces) and my sister's dad, who is buried on the beach in the Phillipines. He was a neat artist, my sister has some of his drawings
I think you could spend your life doing geneology on your family. I've got offers to buy a book about my family name, but I never got it. It might be interesting. I have a friend who found out he has a murderer for an ancestor, another friend found out a great grandfather ran a chiken ranch during the depression. History. Anybody do this geneology stuff?

 

[trophy_killer]

That stuff has always kinda made me wonder. We don't have any pictures of my g-g-grandparents or anything so it might be kind of neat to learn about them.

 

[Mojave]

I have a lot of records but I didn't come by them the hard way. At some point it got out in my family that I was mildly interested in geneology. Everyone just started sending and giving me everything they had, pictures, heirlooms, stories, all kinds of stuff. It was like I got elected defacto historian for everyone, which is weird because I am one of the only Americans. Everyone else is still in the old country.

I have records for my Mom's Dad's side of the family back to 1471. There were some really fascinating notations in the records including one where it mentioned that a family member died in the war of Morea. I had never heard of Morea so I did some research. Apparently the country no longer exists (the campaign went bably I'm guessing). A bunch of the boys from the area went off to fight in this war as mercenaries (interesting considering the peaceful reputation of the Swiss). There were songs and poems written about them (One of which I have and have only partially translated so far).

Other notations include deaths by avalanche. Not unusual as my ancestral home is at the foot of the alps.

I find it really fascinating, but really tough to keep up with in any active way. You could literally keep searching forever.

 

[Nut]

Yep this could be a long lasting thing. I only do this every so often. On my mother's side I was lucky and somebody had did all the work til the late 1600's. That is as far back they traced in this country. But my father's side was severly lacking in anything until I found the sight. It also gave me the info on where they have some records in the county library.

I actually thought I would find some jailbirds in the lineage. But just sometimes the family tree didnt branch. LOL (dueling banjo's theme inserted here)

It also is funny on the numerous variations of my last name. In fact on my Dad's birth certificate his last name is different than the one on mine. Mine ends in "en" and his ends in "and"

It would never end for sure. But it can be fun when you discover something.

 

[Nut]

Well I have nobility in my line so.....................

 

[Elkhunter]

The interesting thing about visiting the old graveyards is that they used to put on the stones what the person died from and lots of other information like brother and sisters names and more. I visited a lot of old cemetaries with my brother who is big into geneology and that is where he got lots of information. Then he would hit the town halls and search their records. There is so much information to be found when doing this.