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I went on Ancestry last night to see if anyone had information on one relative and found something completely different. From one of the public trees, a few documents had been copied. I looked at her tree and her two x great grandmother was a sister to my two ex great grandfather. But she had documentation a generation back. It seems our shared three x great grandfather had two wives. She had names, full ones, and dates and records of the marriages. Some of the children listed under the second wife, my gggggrandmother, and hers, are actually from his first wife.
Her family also lived in Pennuslvania, and moved on to Kentucky then to Illinious. I guess the family stayed together. Most interesting. I'm considering a thanks for the information.
If only anyone had a lead on the missing ggrandfather. Sigh....
Not so long ago when I had time to research with a paid subscription to Ancestry.com. On one side of my family, I even have some ancestors who fought in the American Revolution. I really thought none of my earlier family tree research could lead me back to the early to mid-1700s era.
I'm indeed excited I could possibly trace back to an earlier century in western Europe (17th or most likely 18th century maybe). Unfortunately, I have to put off my own family tree research for quite a while. I will keep reading from some of you pros here and elsewhere as time permits.
I discovered that I had two ancestors who fought in the Revolutionary War, and one of them later became an Indian Scout and Spy. I also discovered that much of his wife's family was killed in an Indian attack in Kentucky.
It was a surprise find for me how common the name Thos was in the 19th century in the US. Thos is a shortened name of Thomas.
The others are correct, Thos is just a written abbreviation for the name Thomas, that doesn't mean Thos was the person's actual name or even a nickname. He would never be called "Thos" when speaking.
My most recent? That the earliest arrival in the USA of my Mother's father's family was 1635 in Plymouth Colony, MA and that that line of the family played important roles in the early days of MA (in Cambridge, as Chief Justice of the MA Supreme Court, etc.). It's a line which is so very well documented in written records. Oh, and that the name of the same family line was shortened upon arrival in the USA, for reasons I'm not yet certain of (an "e" was dropped from the end of the vamily name).
It's my understanding that Thos is the written abbreviation for Thomas. A man named Thomas would not be addressed as Thos when speaking.
Written out as Thomas makes sense. I do remember someone in my long ago past being named Thos (pronounced Thahs) but probably was a nickname.
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