AN UN-HOOTIE UPDATE

Yesterday I decided to remove myself from active participation on the forums for the Herald-Dispatch. There were a number of reasons for this move, among which were the fact that I simply do not have time to keep up with all the different computer related forums, blogs, sites that I have been active on. I am going to restrict myself to only the WVbloggers board and the H-D blogs (primarily Jim Ross' blog). That should free up a couple hours daily for me to concentrate on the genealogy project. I imagine I'll keep an eye on all the rest but participation will be extremely limited.


As a sort of progress report on the genealogy project, we now have captured some 41,000 persons related directly or indirectly to our family, dates from current back as far as the twelfth century. While I continue to add individuals to the files, I am concentrating more on capturing dates of weddings, deaths, names of places and historical tidbits. Yeah, I mentioned dates of death and not births--it seems births were recorded in family Bibles, but deaths seldom were--probably because the Bible remained in the possession of one son or daughter and the others had migrated westward or whatever and did not keep in touch, due in part to the inability to read or write.

It is interesting to note that my family and my wife's family have common ancestors back three or four generations and then in alternating generations behind that. his appears to be a common thread with all genealogies. I read where a guy had said that if we all went back three or more generations, we would all have common ancestors. It sure seems to be true in our families.