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3rd Great Grandmother
Identified Again - and Hutton was misspelled as Hatton
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Which Mary Jane, both?
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Ancestors
Researching, Remembering and Repeating
In researching ancestors, how many times have surprises given us correct ancestors names after finding additional records.
How many times have we failed to make a note of a snippet of information that we run across only to realize later, we cannot remember exactly what it said or where the reference was located.
Repeating ancestors - Pedigree Collapse. Repeating mistakes - Documenting everyone. Repeating Genes - DNA for genealogy
Location, Location, Location
Nothing Can Match Researching On Location
Everyone knew where the descendants, descendants of John Thrasher, went, they cover the USA and countless reunions have kept the families in touch. Everyone knew where John and his wife settled in North Carolina, close enough anyway. Researchers knew he was from Virginia and the International Genealogical Index (IGI) had John connected to parents 150 years older than him from Colonial Virginia. But when Helen Raye Thrasher and I teamed up to find John Thrasher we saw no one had tried to walk in his shoes. Road Orders of 1734 Albemarle County stated one meeting was held in the room of John Thrasher. A purchase of Hammer and seed in Hanover Town also put him with the men who left the eastern shores of Virginia and moved West. His patent said the Blue Mountains, it mentioned property lines of Buffaloe Creek and Puppies Creek and mile by mile we were led to Amhurst County, Virginia. I will never forget walking into the Historical Society and asking about John Thrasher - yes they knew him, they knew and mapped and directed us to the exact location - Thrasher's Creek and Thrasher's Lake and yes, Along the way we encountered one landmark after another.
Nothing replaces researching the place your ancestors lived and if possible in person. Know who moved there at the same time, did they come from the same places, did they marry their neighbors, do they lead to more documented ancestors.