Good night Fran.Good evening,angel
and a Goodnight,lurkers
Sounds like a good dinner to me...easy is always nice!We all can be if we really need to/have to.
Yeah, me too.I still haven't heard, need to get the local news pulled up.
Dinner was leftover (made extra last night) cheeseburgers, baked beans, and chips. Easy peasy.
Just need to rinse dishes and load the DW.
Only 142 with the surname, and less if you excluded women.
How about that! Wow, are you going to visit the gravesite?So, last night I was poking around the "find a grave" website.
I'm too cheap to join the ancestry sites.
Well, more info has been added to some of my family (paternal side), and I was able to track back to my Great, Great, Great Grandfather...who died in 1911.
PLUS, there were two pictures, one of him and my Gr., Gr., Gr. Grandmother, and another of just him.
It also had info regarding his place of birth in Switzerland...which I thought they had come from Germany...but my sister confirmed that nope, it was Switzerland.
From there, I went to the Ellis Island site, and who knew they had a (free) searchable database!!
Well, I didn't find him.
I went back to my Great, Great, Great Grandparents on "find a grave" and started snooping through their children, and one of them had info listed that she had come to America in 1850 with her parents...(score).
So, that took care of the immigration year...the Ellis Island searchable records didn't go back quite that far...
It also listed where they settled...and....*how about* it's not far at all from where I live!! Crazy!!
I then searched for the name of the settlement, and found a long write up about the original Swiss settlement, where they're buried.
It listed names as the settlement grew, and my maiden name was added to the surnames within the settlement in 1850, and it stated the same area/origin of immigration...so I'm taking that as a second source for the immigration time frame. (So interesting!!)
In fact, my Great, Great, Great Grandparents are buried in a tiny cemetery that is 10.4 miles from where I live!!
I know that there is a historian in our family who has gone back 6 generations (last I knew), but I haven't been to the family reunions to see the books she's put together...need to put that on my bucket list.
Anyhoodles, forgive me babbling on, but I just thought I'd share, I know Bobbi does genealogy, and I think Rachel has mentioned that she's into genealogy.
This is really my first dabble into it.
So....I know I've mentioned that I was from German heritage....well, nope...Swiss, and near the French border.
I looked online at some of the pics from the area, and oh my gosh, it's an absolutely gorgeous area!!
Yes.How about that! Wow, are you going to visit the gravesite?
Might as well since they're so close.
That's great, it'll be an interesting visit for youYes.
I'm going to try to find out who is maintaining the cemetery so I can do an annual donation.
It looks like they have a more modern stone, so I don't know if a historical society has maintained/replaced it, but would be curious to find out more info on that too.
It's a tiny cemetery along a very rural country road, but the pic I saw of it online looked like it was very well maintained.
I think so.That's great, it'll be an interesting visit for you
Forgive me but I'm going to call it a day.
Good night lovely and handsome Lurkers
That is really neat. And that does look like a beautiful area...you should make plans to go visit someday.So, last night I was poking around the "find a grave" website.
I'm too cheap to join the ancestry sites.
Well, more info has been added to some of my family (paternal side), and I was able to track back to my Great, Great, Great Grandfather...who died in 1911.
PLUS, there were two pictures, one of him and my Gr., Gr., Gr. Grandmother, and another of just him.
It also had info regarding his place of birth in Switzerland...which I thought they had come from Germany...but my sister confirmed that nope, it was Switzerland.
From there, I went to the Ellis Island site, and who knew they had a (free) searchable database!!
Well, I didn't find him.
I went back to my Great, Great, Great Grandparents on "find a grave" and started snooping through their children, and one of them had info listed that she had come to America in 1850 with her parents...(score).
So, that took care of the immigration year...the Ellis Island searchable records didn't go back quite that far...
It also listed where they settled...and....*how about* it's not far at all from where I live!! Crazy!!
I then searched for the name of the settlement, and found a long write up about the original Swiss settlement, where they're buried.
It listed names as the settlement grew, and my maiden name was added to the surnames within the settlement in 1850, and it stated the same area/origin of immigration...so I'm taking that as a second source for the immigration time frame. (So interesting!!)
In fact, my Great, Great, Great Grandparents are buried in a tiny cemetery that is 10.4 miles from where I live!!
I know that there is a historian in our family who has gone back 6 generations (last I knew), but I haven't been to the family reunions to see the books she's put together...need to put that on my bucket list.
Anyhoodles, forgive me babbling on, but I just thought I'd share, I know Bobbi does genealogy, and I think Rachel has mentioned that she's into genealogy.
This is really my first dabble into it.
So....I know I've mentioned that I was from German heritage....well, nope...Swiss, and near the French border.
I looked online at some of the pics from the area, and oh my gosh, it's an absolutely gorgeous area!!
Good night Dale.That's great, it'll be an interesting visit for you
Forgive me but I'm going to call it a day.
Good night lovely and handsome Lurkers
I thought it was pretty neat.That is really neat. And that does look like a beautiful area...you should make plans to go visit someday.
I've never traced my family back, but would like to some day, if I can ever find the time.
Good night Dale.
Time for me to call it a night too...need to go catch up on some of my shows and clear out the DVR...good night and sweet dreams lovely lurkers.
Have a great Tuesday.
Good morning Chili!!
Good morning SaraGood morning everyone
Dale, hope you are feeling better.
Lori, that is really amazing! How neat, that they are that close.
