Category: Ancestors

Following My Mother

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In tracing my mother’s trip to Europe in 1934 I am learning more about the geography of England in particular.  For example yesterday I bloggedabout her stopping in Ormskirk for ginger cookies.  I had never heard of Ormskirk before.  Today as I was working on my genealogy project – tracing my ancestors – I find that a 13th Great Grandfather was born in Ormskirk.  Bingo!   Lancashire = not a part of England that I am familiar with.

Ormskirk_Parish_Church  Ormskirk Church

And as I follow her footsteps I also am reminded of my travels and I can “compare and contrast” as examiners love to design exam questions.

I just finished……

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I just finished printing a 78 page document that I have been working on for a long time.  It still needs some editing/tinkering but I’m basically ready to move on to the next stage.  I want to input the information to Excel and then do some sorting into different categories. These are my 300+ immigrant ancestors by name, birth and death dates and location, generation, marriage, arrival date and place, miscellaneous information.

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Annotated List Of Immigrant Ancestors

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Louise Maria Austin, age 20  Is she on the list??

I have listed approximately 350 ancestors (every ancestor I can find) who immigrated to North America.  The vast majority came in the Great Migration 1620-1640.  Most came to New England – Boston and surrounding area, and New Haven Connecticut. A few came to New York.  And a few came to Virginia.

They range from being 6th to 10th Great Grandparents.  The vast majority came from England.