Genealogy stuff

[figmo]

I love researching my family tree. I was very close to all four of my grandparents, so for me it's a case of looking up stuff about people I adored. Every once in a while I check Ancestry.com to see if there's anything new

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[figmo]

W.'s paternal grandmother had two daughters with her first husband, who then died. She then married his younger brother and had two boys, the younger of whom eventually became W's father.

Apparently it was relatively common for folks to pair off with a sibling or close relative of their first partner when that person died. My mother's maternal grandfather was dating a young woman who died. He then started dating, and eventually married her younger sister, aka my great-grandmother.

[figmo]

I also have a familysearch.org account. Ancestry.com has some things they don't have and vice-versa. One thing I recently found on familysearch.org that Ancestry.com doesn't have is my paternal grandmother's mother's death certificate (the data from it, anyway).

[elemirion]

My Great Grandfather and his daughter, my Great Aunt did a lot of the family genealogy, then my uncle did a lot more, sadly he seems to have lost most of what he did. We have double cousins too. I have been doing the Ancestry.com thing too. He did his on Heritage.com but lost his password...so that info is lost to us. You have an incredible treasure in this cousin? over there, we have nothing from beyond this country except for some names, but not where. I know I have family that goes back to Scotland, we have a fair amount of that, but the Irish, English and Welsh branches it just says that they came from that country in such and such a year...no more than that.

[figmo]

I agree that I'm lucky to have found that cousin. I've located several cousins via Ancestry.com, which I find kind of cool. I've also gotten updates on some of my other cousins through that site. It's kind of weird telling Mom stuff about her first cousins that one of them should have told her but didn't. ("Did you know so-and-so died a few years ago?" "Did you know so-and-so moved from the house that had been in the family for decades?")