I have been doing genealogy since 25 May 2007. What started out as a few names and dates, has quickly turned into extraordinary lives and stories, some of which, I couldn't make up if I tried. I have two people who are responsible for my journey to the past.
Dad (1949- )
It was a few months after my Grandfather died, when my Dad decided to take another shot at figuring out who Hiram Blanchard and Elizabeth Ferris were. As I watched him click around ancestry.com, I became more and more frustrated with how slow he was working. I also realized some of his research techniques were a little "shady." For example he would just open a directory and look for the name Blanchard. It wasn't long before I took over the whole project. I quickly found out Hiram and Elizabeth were not my family, and all the Blanchard's listed in the 1851 New York directory weren't either.
Michael Joseph Lyons (1884-1891)
The name Michael Joseph Lyons was on one of the first interment lists I ordered from Calvary Cemetery. I had to figure out who he was, so I visited the Italian Genealogical Group. Armed with the certificate number, my next stop was the NYC Department of Records. How excited I was to find out his death certificate stated his Mom was born in Prince Edward Island. Maybe I was related to Lucy Maud Montgomery!
So why am I writing a blog about all this. First I would like to capture my feelings and emotions, as I continue my journey to the past. Second, and more importantly, I need to record what I am doing, and what I have done. I have found I have been forgetting my reaseach, and in some cases doing research I have already done. Hopefully this blog will help prevent me from doing this in the future.
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