100% German

Well, its official, I’ve sullied the blood of my children. . . 🙂

I finished researching Nate’s ancestry to the immigrant ancestor to America. Most of his tree is really shallow, a lot of his ancestors immigrated about 3 or 4 generations ago. There was one line that was giving me trouble, but I found some information recently and believe I’ve got back to the immigrant ancestors on that line too. That part of his tree is the farthest back in time and he has two great grandfathers on that line that served in the Revolutionary war. So now I can say without much hesitation that Nate is 100% German. (I’m a mutt!)

I had created a photo album of all my research for the members of his family back in 2007 (before Hannah was born). Since then, I’ve gotten a lot of new info from Nate’s aunt (and another distant relative) and got the rest of the info on Ancestry.com. So, I updated our copy of the album except for the last little bit I just found out. After I get that part updated, his book will be officially ‘finished’ and I’ll be in a maintenance mode with regards to his tree. Which basically means, I’ll monitor my tree on Ancestry and see if anyone links to any of the records or photos I use and then I’ll check if they have any new data that I didn’t have and update accordingly.

Woohoo! It feels good to accomplish something. Since his tree is a lot shallower than mine, I’ve still got a lot of work to do. But I have a lot more research help on my side from some other genealogists who did my maternal grandpa and grandma’s lines. My dad’s side is a little harder, but Ancestry is helping out.