Subj : Re: memories of welland c
To   : JOE MACKEY
From : NANCY BACKUS
Date : Sun Feb 09 2020 21:36:00

-=> Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 02-07-20  08:10 <=-

 > I certainly became more interested in history when I started to realize
 > that it was the stories of my ancesters... and the history they lived
 > through also gave color and substance to their lives... :)
 JM> Same here.  
 JM> Much of my family history has disappeared over time, with so many
 JM> bachelors and spinsters dying off and not passing along the history.
 JM> I know my fathers side came to this country from Scotland in 1756. 
 JM> My mothers side from England in the 1600s and Germany after that.  
 JM> But what did they do in "the old country"?  Those are the stories
 JM> that are lost.

One just has to dig deeper to get those stories... sometimes one can
find out from newspaper articles... or might be able to extrapolate from
histories of the area... :)

 JM> I had an aunt who had the family tree "traced" and, of course, they
 JM> were "related" to some king in the Medieval period.  This was some
 JM> outfit that trace families back and it was a just a coincidence so many
 JM> were related to royalty.  :)
 JM> HRH Joe

Actually, If your mother's kin came from England in the 1600s, they
quite likely were younger sons of somewhat noble families.... Those
families tended to have been, in many cases, descended from royal
families, although not always legitimately... ;)  Lots of by-blows as
well as large families, where girls married noblemen... :)

A couple of my VA families likewise came over in the 1600s... they did
eventually hook into royal lines....

So you are clearly a cousin of mine, of some sort... <G>

ttyl      neb

.... The beautiful thing about standards is that there are so many of them.

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