Family Tree....
My mother is so involved in genealogy, that she almost died when a friend of my aunts came over to her home and without permission proceeded to use her computer. It took me a week to recover about 95% of what she destroyed.....
That was 3 years ago and about 290MB worth of data. (My parents are Mormon, and heavily involved with the genealogy center in Salt Lake City. She has traced us back almost to Christ! Not a direct descendant, but that far back in time. At the current moment, she has three external drives, all Raided, as backup copies. I have a copy and my older sister has a copy. I don't think we will lose the 1.8GB file she is keeping track of now....
As for my wife's family, I do the work on that one. I currently have 350 names give or take a few, but have run into a brick wall on her dad's side at his great, great, great Grandpa. The family is from poland, and during the German occupation, the hospital where he was born was razed, all records burned, and many of the staff killed. Of course, we then went to the city records, only to find the same thing had happened there.
So, I have him married to a certain woman, with three kids. Married to a different woman, same kids. First wife 2 DIFFERENT kids. Second wife, 4 DIFFERENT kids. NO wife at all. (How did grandkids show up???)
The best part of all this.... The records I was given were from my wife's mother's grandfather, a second grade education was all he had, and he managed to collect and collate 6 generations of his family into a hand written file that I still have. It is written almost as a story. Way cool! The worst part.... I spent a year verifying it all, typing it up in Family Tree Maker and PAF, and 3 days before he and his wife got my rendition of his work in the mail, He passed away and never got to see it. He was about 99.5% accurate in his record keeping. I only had to fix a couple of minor errors, mostly involving spelling, that caused a few members of the family to be lost. I was able to find and include them.
I still work on it occasionally, adding new additions to the tree from the kids we have now, and looking for old Valentin, but I don't have the time to really delve into right now.
Just a few brags that I want to toss out.
My son is named for his great (say that like 28 times) grandfather. None other than Erik the Red. I have 3 Spanish kings, Phillippe the First, Second, and Third, two English Earls, and umpteen european royalties in my family line.
What the He!! happened that I am not RICH beyond belief!!!????:crying:
Keep up the good work and you'll find some very interesting things in your back story!!!
CdirtO