Jeanie DiLeonardo's Blog – August 2009 Archive (4)

One of the toughest things in genealogy can be figuring out where people went and/or came from, of course. I'm particularly stuck on the PARKER brick wall at the moment, which never gets me anywhere. My great-great grandmother Mary Parker (sometimes listed on censuses with the middle initial J, and whose daughter and my great-grandmother was Mary Jane Wade) married my great-great grandfather George W. Wade in 1876 in Clam Lake, Wexford County, Michigan. The marriage certificate says she was 17… Continue

Staring at page after page of scanned census records from 1851 (Canada) for hours has got me a little punchy, I guess. I just found the Partridge family in Elgin county - scanned down a few more lines and there was...the Brady bunch!

I can't believe how many times I'm cranking away on my family tree in Ancestry.com, finding records with spouses and children and thinking "hey, that name sounds familiar" - and come to find out, yup! I've been here before - on the other side of the tree. Both sides are second or third or kissin' cousins. I guess that's what happens when you have a lot of ancestors in Kentucky... (ducks and runs)

A funny thing that I encounter is the different ways people will describe eye color or hair color. For example: I consider myself a redhead: my earliest photos show a wisp of light reddish hair, and there's always been a "warm" cast, even when the Florida sun lightened it. It irritated me a bit when a high school boyfriend's best friend gave me the nickname "Blondie" - that just didn't fit in with my self image! Likewise, I once was filling in a form and put "red" for hair color, only to have a… Continue