Genealogy: Yours
and Mine
Genealogy: Yours
How Many Ancestors Do You Have?
Only 1 YOU
2 parents
4 grandparents
8 great grandparents
16 gg grandparents
32 ggg grandparents
64 gggg grandparents
128 ggggg grandparents
256 gggggg grandparents
512 ggggggg grandparents
1,024 gggggggg grandparents
2,048 ggggggggg grandparents'
4,096 gggggggggg grandparents
8,192 ggggggggggg grandparents
16,184 gggggggggggg grandparents
32,768 ggggggggggggg grandparents
65,536 gggggggggggggg grandparents
131,072 ggggggggggggggg grandparents
262,144 gggggggggggggggg grandparents
524,288 ggggggggggggggggg grandparents
1,048,576 gggggggggggggggggg grandparents
2,097,152 ggggggggggggggggggg grandparents
Getting Started with Online Genealogy
If you want to find your ancestors online, you'll need to know where
to look. Luckily for you, there are far more resources available to the roots hunter today than
in the early days of online genealogy.
But gone is the honest, dignified research environment of yesterday.
Today it's a commercial jungle, and the researcher must be wary. Start with Cyndi's List (see
below, and you'll be off to a great start.
To Pay or Not to Pay?
One thing you'll need to decide is where and how much money, if any,
to spend on tracing your roots. If your budget will be deciding for you, take heart: many
searchable sites are free. There are also volunteer-run sites that charge nominal fees to cover
costs. And even the subscription-based companies, whose annual fees range from $48 to $419, offer
some free services, as well as free trial periods on their premium services.
Must you purchase a subscription to find your ancestors? Maybe. But
ancestors, like gold, are where you find them, so don't assume that a pricy subscription will
necessarily yield all the results you seek.
Older Sites or Newer Ones?
The gold-is-where-you-find-it principle applies to age also. The
older genealogy sites usually house larger repositories of data, so the chances of finding your
ancestors there may be greater. But some researchers are picky, for one reason
or another, about where they will share their data. And since your ancestors' names might be in their
trees, you should visit the newer, smaller sites too. Today's online researcher uses multiple
resources.
Online Resources
Cyndi's List. Genealogy resources are available
at CyndisList.com. If you click here, it will open in
its own window.
Personal Webpages. Many researchers place their family trees
online, either on their own websites or on pages provided by genealogy sites, and you may find your
ancestors there.
Bear in mind that many researchers upload their pedigrees (family trees) to the
Internet without having proven all of the data in them. You should always regard the family trees
of others as a guideline for conducting your own research.
My Family Trees on This Website. Scroll down and search for your ancestors
among mine. I cannot guarantee 100% accuracy throughout, so here as elsewhere, use whatever
information you find as a working hypothesis.
Vital Records Scans on this Website. You might
find your ancestors among the Vital Records Scans I recently uploaded. Feel free to harvest
the images you need for your own family research. You'll find 8 pages' worth of these scans, beginning
here: Vital Records Scans
Genealogy: Mine
My Ancestry
Like most white Americans, I am of mixed European ancestry. So far,
my research shows my father's ancestors to be of Dutch, English, French, Irish, Prussian, Scots
and Welsh descent; my mother's are of Belgian, Dutch, English, Flemish, German and Semitic
origin.
About My Family Trees
Some of the family trees on this website contain information from
other sources that has not been proven yet, so I cannot guarantee 100% accuracy throughout. You should
always regard the genealogical information you find, here on my site and elsewhere, as a
guideline for conducting your own research.
The ancestral trees appearing at left represent the
beginning of a massive uploading project. I will add more photos, anecdotes, and
historical writings and documents as time permits. Eventually I will also upload more trees, such
as Campbell, Conine, Enlow, McCammon, Pifer, Post, Stevenson, Strickler, Thielemans and
Tournay.
Thanks to My Kin
Over the last ten years, numerous relatives, living and deceased, have
assisted me in tracing my roots, as have several "internet cousins" with whom I have connected
along the way. I intend to thank every one of them. Following protocol for keeping the names of
the living off the internet, living contributors are acknowledged using their first names only.
As I comb through my papers, I will continue to add more notes of thanks, so please don't feel slighted
if you don't see your name among the contributors yet.
Cousins, if you spot any errors or omissions, if you'd like to
see your branch added here, or you'd like to share photos, information or just a friendly
hello, please contact me, I'd love to hear from you!
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