I was always interested in having the “latest” whenever possible. And as far as my own family, my continuing genealogical discoveries created a tree that just became increasingly bigger as I continued.įTM was updated and upgraded over the years. Having branched out into client work, I usually would use FTM as one of the tools to keep my research in order. With FTM eventually becoming an property, it became a convenience to me since I was already an Ancestry subscriber. Speaking, teaching, consulting, family research and literally anything to do with genealogy. In 1998, I began what has become my profession. Obviously, there must be a few folks I never knew or heard of on my mother’s side. Who were they? Who am I? Exactly how did I connect with someone born so long ago in 1849? That was my father’s side. It was the spark that lit up my desire, or rather my need to find out if “what you don’t know” included family. Until the moment the Family Tree Maker practically jumped off the shelf. You should know that I was brought up in an environment of “what you don’t know won’t hurt you.” At the time, I wasn’t particularly interested in anything family related. So impressed, that I put away and didn’t open it again until around 1998, a few months before my foray into the software department at Circuit City. I was so impressed with this information that I now knew an ancestor who was born over 120 years before the letter was written. The writer had typewritten what I know now is a descendant chart beginning with an ancestor of mine who was born in 1849. My paternal lines, on the other hand, had all settled in the American Southeast: Virginia/West Virginia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama. It’s from this side, I researched one of my 18 or so Revolutionary War Patriot ancestors and was able to join the Sons of the American Revolution. I’ve since discovered some very surprising ancestors that I’ve written about over the years. Now, by way of explanation, my maternal lines extend to the Mayflower and dozens of others who arrived during the Great Migration, settling in Plymouth Colony and, later, Massachusetts Bay Colony and finally, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It began in 1969 when I received a letter from someone who turned out to be a second cousin. By “back of my mind” I mean a subconscious, little-explored avocation. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I had family history in mind. I had recently bought a desktop computer and eventually I walked down the software aisle. I really don’t remember what I was looking for. In 1998, I was wandering around Circuit City, a company that went out of business maybe 7 years ago or more.
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