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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My maiden name is quite unique,  so anyone with this name is a relative.  Thanks to "find a grave" I was able to go back to the early to mid 1700's!

Anyone else into genealogy?[/quote]

Not my own maiden name, but my mom's maiden name (I won't say what it is, but maybe we're related??)--everyone in the US with this surname fits into the family tree. There were 2 people with the same surname who arrived in 1635 but nothing known of them after that, so they probably did not survive. Everyone else in the US came from a couple who moved from Nova Scotia to what is now the US in the early 1700s.

The name is found in church records in England from the late 1500s and early 1600s but I don't know of anyone who has found the links between them and the US branch. There is also a South African branch and some in Canada.

Someone did a genealogy in the 1940s for another long standing branch (my mom's paternal grandmother) that went back to at least the Revolutionary War although I have no idea what happened to it. My mom's cousin took on the genealogy task in the 1970s (he became disabled and never was able to fulfill his dream of traveling to England to research those records, and he died in the 1990s). A second cousin of mine (his niece) has put all the stuff online.

Dh's family has never been as much into the stuff, but a relative of his has done a family tree from 1830 to present. His 4x (? I think) great grandfather owned a limestone quarry in southern Minnesota after starting in Iowa, and I found an online pic of his widow, at advanced age, standing in the doorway of their limestone house, which is now a county historical museum. They were Irish, and the tree shows a few generations where there are 10-12 kids and a lot of Patricks and Bridgets until they became white collar professionals and turned Presbyterian.

There's census records you can see online as well. It's eerie because you can see the original writing of your ancestor's name, their kids, etc., and you know a census taker was at their house at a point in time taking that info. [/quote]

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