I've been researching my family since I was about 10 years old, when my Great Aunt Mildred Irene Beaty, recorded a large amount of history.
Over the last 20 years, I'd periodically check out my college libraries, for information, and amazingly, I would find bits and pieces of it along the way.
After the birth of my child, I felt that need to not just know her and myself, but to really know who we are, and who we were. Becoming a mother inspired me to meet as many of "my" mothers (and fathers) as I could.
Over the last two years, I've built an extensive "tree", with a few, (but very few) dead ends.
My family consists of politicians, doctors, nurses, lawyers, soldiers, laborers, inn keepers, merchants, preachers, teachers, missionaries, gold miners, cattlemen, home makers and farmers.
The main names in my father's tree are: Beaty(NC>KY>MO>CA), Childs, Franz (IA), Beier(Austria>OR), Palmer, Glennon, Newell, Owens, Pemberton(VA>IN>CA), and Patton (VA).
On my mother's side of the tree, the main names are: Steele, Breckinridge, Preston, Patton, Cabell (VA and KY), Cram, Cilley, Weare, Scolley, Lull and Carr (NH and Mass.),
Herbert, Clayton, Couwenhoven, Dey, Perrine, Scanlon, Mount, Denise, and Van Cleef (NY and NJ), Smith, Johnson, Duncan, McAlister, Anderson (PA), and Alexander (MD).

I've named my web page after my maternal Great grandfather Col. William Dey Herbert, M.D. (b. 17 Dec 1881 NJ d. 28 June 1967 San Francisco, CA).
Welcome to my tree and hello to all my cousins.

• William Dey Herbert (1881-1968) (16 KB)
  Col. William Dey Herbert (of Freehold, NJ) and his daughter Jean McAllister Herbert, circa 1916.
• Maud Rue Smith Herbert 1884-1975 (50 KB)
  Maud Rue (Smith) Herbert and her daughter Jean. Photo taken abt. 1917.
• Palmer family plot (111 KB)
  This is the headstone for the grave of Robert Palmer and his wife Rose (Glennon) Palmer and their son Richard ( Richard died of Typhoid). They are buried together at the top of a hill overlooking the Kern River Valley in California. Rose was a "mail order" bride according to family history and traveled across the Panama Isthmus by mule on her journey from Kells, Ireland to meet her new husband in San Francisco. Robert was in an altercation at one time in his life with Native Americans as he was mining in Yosemite, and was buried many years later with a piece of arrowhead still lodged in his shoulder.
• Gravestone of Ann Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge (16 KB)
  This gravestone is located in the Lexington Cemetery (in Kentucky) in the Breckinridge family plot at the base of the monument placed in memory of Ann and her husband Dr. Robert Jefferson Breckinridge. Ann Sophy died at the age of 44, only three short months after giving birth to her last child, a son named Charles Henry Breckinridge.

Sara Pollastrini
sevenkittyhouse@mac.com

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