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requiemessence

Old Family Is Old

Apr 03, 2010 19:52

As of today, I have traced my father's family back nine generations to Patrick Fassett (b. 1628 in Scotland, d. 07 Nov 1713 in Billerica, Mass.) and my mother's family (following her father's surname, Morford) back eleven generations to a John Morfit (b. 1620 in England, d. 1700 in Gunpowder Hundred, Maryland) supposing the spelling of the name ( Read more... )

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hattrickflyer April 5 2010, 02:58:45 UTC

What did you use to dig at it? I've always been interested in doing something like this, but really don't know where to begin (other than pay sites).

requiemessence April 5 2010, 13:40:52 UTC

My great uncle on my dad's side was working on the Fassett genealogy, so I inherited everything he had. There are a few sites you can use like FamilySearch.org (run by the LDS), AccessGenealogy.com, as well as the national archives for tracking down census' (a boon for genealogy). I do use Ancestry.com quite a bit, and while it's a pay-site, it's helped me uncover that my maternal grandfather's mother's maiden name wasn't actually Caswell, but Cannell (a Manx form of Connell).