Hi;
I love Susan’s knowledge and confidence - it’s inspiring to a scaredy-cat like me. This summer I will try some of the acid things, to get started.
My family came a little later. I picked 1630 to be safe, because I couldn’t recall the exact, earliest date where my genealogist aunt found record of us here. (She took it much further back in England and Wales; and knowing that stuff makes history really come alive!)
I will dig out the records someday soon, and figure out the real date.
JT
I was our family’s genealogist. Granny would say they’re all dead and gone so who cares. One time while visiting granny’s wackadoodle sister, her husband took us out to the horse barn where we found a box of old family photos which he gave to me. The horse barn! Rats, bugs, rain, snow, hay dust and manure! That got me started. Those ancestors became real from photos and letters. Sadly, the kids couldn’t care less. Some of the original documents were donated to the University of Texas but apparently they don’t care either because they were never catalogued and now lost. Some things are ready to be sent to Texas Woman’s Univ but I don’t want them treated the same as UT did. Other items (we never threw anything out) have been sent back to the small towns the family came from and they’re appreciative but those museums seem to be dying out and are being packed up. Anyone know where to send family history where it’s appreciated?