Welcome to Digging Down East! In 2015, I concentrated my research on 10 of my Canadian family tree lines. I discovered that having that focus brought me closer to my Nova Scotia and New Brunswick roots. What wonderful Canadian contacts (many related!) I made throughout the year! So many times, social media, particularly Facebook Groups, proved invaluable to me, with so many folks willing to visit cemeteries for me, do look-ups in out-of-print books, and even do library research. The distance from Ohio to the Maritimes never seemed long!
In 2016 and 2017, I plan to focus on "my 64," as I like to call my 4th great grandparents. For some of these, I can follow them, genealogically speaking, "from cradle to grave." For others, I don't even know their names! But 64 seems a reasonable number of direct ancestors to work on, and already I see some interesting patterns:
- I have 2 sets of 4th great grandparents named Seavey, Libby, and Hamilton, and 3 sets of 4th great grandparents named Steeves!
- I have 2 sets of 4th great grandparents who are my 4th great grandparents twice:
William Brackley, Jr. and Anna Clayton
and
Simon Packard and Nancy Jordan
- I have 4 sets of 4th great grandparents whose names are unknown to me:
The parents of James Ross
The parents of Effie Constantine
The parents of Margaret Ferguson
and
The parents of William Harnett
- I am missing the first name of Miss Stevens who married Jonathan Seavey and the last name of Jane who married Richard Henry Norris,
So happy 2016 and off I go, biting off a big chunk of the trunk of my family tree, and excited to discover more fascinating stories "digging down east!"
My 4th Great
Grandparents
Jonathan Seavey
_____ Stevens
Moses Seavey
Huldah Locke
Allison Libby II
Sarah Dam
Thomas Cross
Lucy Hovey
Benjamin Griswold
Elizabeth Eastman
Elizabeth Eastman
William Prior
Elizabeth Ellis
David L. Libby
Charlotte Stevens
Daniel Miller
Patience Stevens
Andrew Leighton
Mary Weymouth
Enoch Morse
Eunice Russell
William Brackley, Jr. (Twice)
Anna Clayton
Simon Packard (Twice)
Nancy Jordan
Andrew Lovell
Sarah Joy
Richard Henry Norris
Jane _____
Thomas Bustin
Mary Utt
George Wilson
Jane Smith
_____ _____
_____ _____ (Parents of James Ross)
_____ _____
_____ _____ (Parents of Effie Constantine)
John Hamilton
Elizabeth Archibald
Hans Hamilton
Jane Cottam
William MacKay
Catherine Bethune
John Brown
Isabel Fulton
Robert Smith
Hannah Veckle Beck
George Steeves
Martha Smith
Jacob Steeves
Eleanor Bleakney
Christian Steeves
Christianna Jones
John McCain
Jane Allison
_______ _______
_____ _____(Parents of Margaret Ferguson)
_____ _____
_____ _____ (Parents of William Harnett)
Hugh Cowperthwaite
Mary Newcomb
What a great idea. I have a focus for 2016 (my colonial ancestors) I have the research, I just need to get writing.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea! I am a descendant of the Steeves family as well. I'm in Sydney, Australia and have traced one of my lines back to Matthias Steeves who was my 6th great-grandfather.
ReplyDeleteTiphanee, Matthias is my 5th great-grandfather. Will you be coming to the big reunion in Hillsborough, New Brunswick, next summer? My sister and I will be there!
DeleteGreat idea! I'm looking forward to reading about them.
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