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Researching surnames: Ewing, Fuller, Price, Porter, Tickle, Bradley, Anderson, Hager, Short, Cress, Parks, Akers, Farley, Cook, Winskell, Sublett, Soblet, and Jordan.
First, I would like to say that I am new to genealogy and I plunged right in, addicted and making every mistake imaginable. After downloading the demo of Family Origins, I went straight to ancestry.com and started typing surnames in the search windows. I was amazed when one of the names I searched had parent after parent after parent listed. I followed one line all the way to 1555 and I didn't even need to write to a single courthouse, order a roll of microfilm, pay for a census cd or visit an old cemetery. What could be easier? All the work was done, all I needed to do was type the information into my new program and print out cute little family trees. The more I researched, the more I kept running into words like, "verify" and "sources". Hopefully I am slowing down a bit and figuring out what I am trying to accomplish by researching my family tree. After seeing the tree stretch out so long, I realized that it does not mean anything to me without the proof that what I was seeing was real.
My goals have changed and I'm looking at this new addiction from a different angle. I'm almost positive that my database has errors in it. From the conflicting information that I run across daily, I can't assume otherwise.
This site is a work in progress, being added to almost daily. Please bookmark this page and visit often. I would love to make contact with anyone that finds a family member on this site.
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- My family tree (222 KB)
Researching surnames: Ewing, Fuller, Price, Porter, Tickle, Bradley, Anderson, Hager, Short, Cress, Parks, Akers, Farley, Cook, Winskell, Sublett, Soblet, and Jordan.
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