Introduction

  This blog is devoted to information and pictures about our children's ancestors, aunts, uncles and cousins.  It is a work in progress -- some posts, at first, may only provide the name, others may  have limited information, but they all will be developed as time permits -- so revisit specific posts to see updated material.

  This blog does not meet all of the generally accepted evidential standards for genealogical writing, but presents the research I've completed as a resource for others who may want to expand on the information from other primary and secondary sources. Sources used are identified for each individual, but many of them are secondary sources.  One should plan to verify this information if using it for their own family history. The material presented is thought to be correct. Where there are questions about relationships, the rational for the relationships presented are explained.  The editor welcomes any corrections and/or additions to the material posted.  Please post them as comments on the appropriate entry or email them to the editor.  

  The material is organized using the Ahnentafel Numbering System*. Our children are Number 1a and 1b, their father is Number 2, their mother is Number 3.  In this system a person's father's number is always twice the person's number and his/her mother's number is twice plus one. The system is also called the Sosa-Stradonitz System for the Spanish genealogist Jerome de Sosa who first used it in 1676 and for Stephan Kekule von Stradonitz who popularized it in his 1896 Ahnentafel Atlas.  All of the numbers used will have six digits which will permit organizing nineteen generations of the ancestors of our children. When the same person appears twice in this family tree, they will be assigned two numbers which will link to the same posts with the same information. Aunts and uncles will be organized under the number of their sibling with a letter added to the number. Cousins will only be listed under their parents.   In most instances, additional persons identified are limited to an ancestor's siblings and their children.

  Except for our children and their parents, no complete names or information is provided about living individuals.  No other direct ancestors are living.  Living aunts, uncles and cousins will be identified as "Living Surname" and no information will be provided about them, their spouses or children, unless they specifically request it.  

  *For more information on this numbering system, see Richard A. Pence's Numbering Systems in Genealogy.