Genealogy notes
Oct. 11th, 2024 10:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calzephyrOn our recent trip to Ontario I received some genealogical information about my husband's family. Like my own family stories, it's a jumble of names and relationships! One of his uncles mentioned "going on the computer and finding out someone had already done the work" for his maternal grandparents and it was true! It was delightful to see hubs's family tree light up like a Christmas tree. It turns out hubs is Irish (which I knew), French, Scottish and...German!
Hubs has no interest genealogy, which I think is a shame since it's always so fascinating. In one visit I learned so much more about his family than I did in 24 years of knowing him, LOL!
Ancestry did a big update recently and I'll keep checking back to see if they're still working things out. The little bit of Swedish and Welsh on Mom's side disappeared and the West Asian countries on Dad's side got lumped into Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean.
It seems like more electoral voting lists were also released or added, because suddenly I can find more of my relatives that way too, including my parents.
The voting lists are cool because a quick scan showed my maternal great-grandmother, who we'll call GV for now, was quite the busybody. Lady did not stay put for very long! It seems she lived with her youngest son and his wife from 1968-1972 and went where they went. I didn't meet her and Mom doesn't have anything nice to say about GV. Regardless, I can't imagine my MIL living with us for more than a year at most :-D
Hubs has no interest genealogy, which I think is a shame since it's always so fascinating. In one visit I learned so much more about his family than I did in 24 years of knowing him, LOL!
Ancestry did a big update recently and I'll keep checking back to see if they're still working things out. The little bit of Swedish and Welsh on Mom's side disappeared and the West Asian countries on Dad's side got lumped into Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean.
It seems like more electoral voting lists were also released or added, because suddenly I can find more of my relatives that way too, including my parents.
The voting lists are cool because a quick scan showed my maternal great-grandmother, who we'll call GV for now, was quite the busybody. Lady did not stay put for very long! It seems she lived with her youngest son and his wife from 1968-1972 and went where they went. I didn't meet her and Mom doesn't have anything nice to say about GV. Regardless, I can't imagine my MIL living with us for more than a year at most :-D
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