I. Project Introduction:
Welcome to our Ancestry section.
Our genealogy work
has been an effort to expand our understanding of our
heritage using the classic approach of following family
information to locate vital records, family documents and
news articles to identify all the people and families that
are part of our heritage. In addition to using data we
discover on our own, we have also received information from
other researchers who were developing their own leads and
databases when their information surfaced and they made a
connection to one or more of our family tree branches.
We started this web in
November of 2000 in an attempt to share what we had discovered. Our hope was
that others would
find our site and would share details they believed might
be helpful to our existing data, or
to expanding existing surname branches. A secondary
goal focused on needing to have feedback about the information
displayed to be sure we hadn’t misunderstood any details, or
missed known people. Originally, our genealogical effort was and
still uses a classic document seeking approach, and it is
available at this link: “Classic Family Tree”.
Since going public with our family
information we have met distant cousins and made new
friends, which added to the fun and adventure of ancestor
hunting. It was while we were doing this work, a friendship
with Cliff Rines in Ontario, Canada developed into a data
sharing partnership. Cliff has been working with one of his
Rines family members for years and compiled an enormous amount
of information on his heritage and associated family surname
branches. When we first met, it seemed like we would find our
common ancestor quickly, but unfortunately that connection still
eludes us to this day.
While “Classic Family Tree” research methods have
been our primary process for collecting information, we knew not
long into our project that our historic family branch horizons
would be unpredictable and severely limited because of paper’s
limited life cycle. To help get around the limitations of paper,
we expanded our methods of ancestor discovery early in 2006 by
including Genetic Genealogy processes through the use of DNA
analysis. This new approach is explained in detail in our
"Genetic Genealogy" section.
Our genetic focus has already developed a very
broad overview of the migratory paths of my surname’s genetic
markers and my mother's maternal marker trail. It has also opened up an entirely new area of science
to discover and explore as we pursue new connections to our
ancestry. While our efforts with this new tool are just
getting started, take a few minutes to understand the
potential for locating people we could have never known about
any other way by exploring the information in our: "Genetic Genealogy".
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