Staying Organized

I knew ahead of time that I would be away from home for a while this winter, so I pre-wrote some posts and scheduled them for future release. On top of that, I got lazy this month. Then I found out last night that Blogger did not release my posts as scheduled, nicely spread out over two months, and instead pretty much dumped them all at once. That's my excuse for the long break. I'll try not to let it happen again.

So far, I've covered my great-great-grandparents, also called "second great-grandparents" and some of my third great-grandparents that are dead ends as far as further information goes. Who knows? I might some day find out more about some of them and I'll add it if it happens.

I've gone as far as I can with my mother's side of the family, but I have much more information about the families of seven third-great-grandparents, all from my father's side of the family. The ancestors of Grandpa Lou (Laurel) came from Sweden, but the further back I go, the more they spread out, through all of Scandinavia and then to eastern Europe. Grandma Alta's family were mostly very early American immigrants from England. As I go farther back in time, I can see that they came from all parts of England and were involved in all the major events in the history of that country.

I have discovered that we have a pretty amazing family history with lots of nobility on both sides. Because of this, there were lots of records kept. Our ancestors were important enough that they are mentioned in lots of historical resources, but for right now I am just making note of names and dates. When I've got all I can find of that kind of info, I plan to spend time looking into all that history and figuring out just who everyone was and why they were important.

It is pretty obvious that this is a project that will last the rest of my life, but it's one that I look forward to working on every day!

Kathy