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I was contacted this week by a cousin about some findagrave memorials I manage. Now I'm learning about some long lost cousins.
The one who posted them hasn't logged in for a year, but I know someone in the family and might ask if they know them. I'm really curious about how they actually got to North Carolina and Virginia. If they ended up in Tennesse, they likely didn't come with money.
Thanks to the advise I got in another thread to make my deceased husband living so I can let it go public again. But I finally tracked down the divorce dates for my grandparents, within four years at least, and listed his second wife. Any easy tricks on how to attaching a record on Ancestry would be appreciated.
I'm pretty sure that if my ancestors were moving from Tennessee to Georgia when it was first opened, they weren't people with money.
Now that I know my grandmother had siblings who lived and died in Georgia, I'd love to know if there are long lost cousins there.
I have been interested in genealogy for a while, but have only done research on occasion here and there, nothing extensive. I am not able yet to go back more than a few short generations, but I hope to find out more in time. I found out I had more aunts and uncles than previously.
I never could find anything regarding my fathers side of the family until the 1940 census which was just released in 2012. While quite young, my father and his sister had been adopted by distant family members who did not like to talk about the past at all.
I researched my fathers side of the family and found my fraternal grandparents and I found out there were many more children than I had known about. Previously, I could never find my grandparents in searches with the prior information I had. What I was told as a kid was vague, about how many children they had and their ages. On the 1940 census form, there were 6 children listed in the household and all I had known is my father had 2 siblings had died a while back. My father was not yet born in 1940, so his info was not there. My dad and his older sister were adopted by distant relatives in the mid-1940s after their parents had died.
Now that I have my grandparents approximate birth and death dates, I could probably find out much more. I'm not sure what happened to the other aunts and uncles listed, but may do more research from what I found out. The unfortunate part is I really have no one to talk to about this side of the family from that time period. I would have to just do research on my own to find out more.
The one who posted them hasn't logged in for a year, but I know someone in the family and might ask if they know them. I'm really curious about how they actually got to North Carolina and Virginia. If they ended up in Tennesse, they likely didn't come with money.
Thanks to the advise I got in another thread to make my deceased husband living so I can let it go public again. But I finally tracked down the divorce dates for my grandparents, within four years at least, and listed his second wife. Any easy tricks on how to attaching a record on Ancestry would be appreciated.
I'm pretty sure that if my ancestors were moving from Tennessee to Georgia when it was first opened, they weren't people with money.
Now that I know my grandmother had siblings who lived and died in Georgia, I'd love to know if there are long lost cousins there.
Have you used a DNA service? 23andMe has a DNA Relatives feature that identifies long lost cousins.
Ah, thanks. Someone in another thread did the same, so I thought it was some new concept, like the grandparents of my half-brother or adopted brother.
Not sure why but I used the wrong term. You are right mentioning: fraternal could sound like a half brother or adopted brother's grandparents.
Now after more research since a few days ago, I may not have found the correct family, but will keep checking. I might have the wrong city they had lived in. I know which county in which they most likely resided, but not the correct small town.
Saving up for it. I can only do the autosomal version, and not sure who to use. I do want to have a cousin match but I'm not sure who to use.
I don't mean to sound like a commercial, but 23andMe went down $99 and is still there. They have autosomal and mtDNA and Y (for males), all included. It's a really good deal. I didn't know who to go with either, but am glad I went with them. They seem to offer more features than the others.
I got a surprise email yesterday. A long ago DNA relative contacted me with renewed interest. Pending...
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