Me and My great great great great gram gram :o)

[Guava Jelly]

Elizabeth Shively(1833-1908)
Here is what she looked like sitting next to my great great great great great gram gram.

(I found her grave as well)
I made a pilgrimage to a small township in Pennsylvania last friday during my visit to Scranton PA

[laylah]

1. How exciting!

My younger sister has done our family's geneology, visiting numerous cemetaries in KY, TN, IL, VA, and MO. Very exciting indeed.

[Guava Jelly]

2. thank you

I have been researching this for a few years now.
I wish i could spend more time there and do more research.
I may have to go back
:D

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Wow! Incredibly cool!

And that is an incredible picture! What a wonderful and valuable thing to have! I love finding such things, though have very few, except from my Dutch grandmother, whose family arrived here back in the 1600s, since my Irish and Polish ancestors arrived here "on the last boat," as my mother says...:-(

I am also very much interested in family history and genealogy, thanks to my grandmother who told me stories about the family and took me to visit cemeteries since I was very young. My aunt and I slogged through years of debris and fallen trees to reach an abandoned cemetery where many of my ancestors were buried, mostly from the 1700s. It was very sad, stones fallen down and buried, lives forgotten. ;(

You should check out the Ancestry/Genealogy group here on DU, if you haven't, started by Cooley Hurd and me. There are some very knowledgeable folks there who could help you with your research...:hi:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=331

[Guava Jelly]

4. I didn't know there was one

Thank you.
I will check it out :hi:

[Rhiannon12866]

5. Terrific! I hoped that you'd be interested...

There are a lot of us on DU who are very interested in this, love sharing discoveries, tips and information. We started this group back in 2005 and it's really taken off, even though not everybody's aware of us...;) We'd love to have you with us!:hi:

[Guava Jelly]

10. consider me a member

:D
I'll check it out tonight when i get home.
http://www.shivelyfamily.com/Tree.html
I have a family tree webpage i have been working on for a while so I know a little.

[Rhiannon12866]

20. Welcome! And I am very impressed! You're obviously very good at this...

I'm very fortunate, at least with my grandmother's family, since her aunt published a book, which I have a copy of, that traces her family back to the 1600s, when the first Dutch ancestor came here, and they haven't traveled that far...:-)

The only thing is that this was in 1972, so a lot of us are missing... My cousin, who's much better at this than I am, and I have talked about updating it, but he moved halfway across the country a couple of years ago, so it's much more difficult for him now, even with the internet, since a lot of genealogy research is footwork, visiting cemeteries and libraries, and all, as you know...:shrug:

[Guava Jelly]

26. yeah

and Missouri is quite a ways from PA.

[VenusRising]

6. That is too cool, GoPsUx!

Thanks for sharing that.

Both sides of my family have some genealogy done, and one side has a whole society to join.

I'm glad you got a chance to make some family connections while on your trip.

Welcome home!

:hug::loveya:

[Guava Jelly]

11. Thank you.

I want to go back and spend more time there researching.
Eventually i will.
:hug: :loveya:

[VenusRising]

16. One of the largest libraries dedicated to genealogy

is in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. It's not near as far from where you are, and I believe they are second only to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.

It's fun to research the family tree. :)

[Guava Jelly]

17. i will check into that

thank you.

[Maestro]

7. That is terrific!

I am into this geneological thing as well. I have one branch of my family that is from PA as well. They had come to PA from Redruth, England.

[Rhiannon12866]

8. If you're interested, there's a group about genealogy on DU.

We'd love to have you join us...:hi:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=331

[Maestro]

14. Thanks

I already PM'd someone after reading a post in that group. :hi:

[Rhiannon12866]

19. Terrific! Good luck with this...

There are a lot of folks there that have a lot of knowledge and resources and would be more than glad to share and help you out...:-)

[Guava Jelly]

12. I am stuck around 1850

I can't find the name of a great X 4 grandfather.
My family name is Germanic in origin

[Maestro]

15. I have a branch from Baden, Germany

The name was Leibenstein which became Livingston when they moved to the Americas in the 1700s.

[Guava Jelly]

18. My last name is totally americanized

Schaeublin is the suspected origin but i can't confirm it.

[madinmaryland]

23. i have been able to trace my ancestory back to bavaria in the

early 1620's. We migrated to the US in the 1730's. It appears it was in 1738 to Philadelphia, settling in Berks County PA.

[fudge stripe cookays]

38. God...how did you find the emigration?

I'm trying to find our "Ancestor Zero" (the first ancestor to leave the old country), and I'm researching Schmidts in Northampton County, PA.

I've checked just about every "Pennsylvania Dutch" book I find, but it's like needles and haystacks.

[supernova]

9. You have her eyes.

:-)

I'm sure she appreciated the visit. :D

I love looking at hold photos and am always sad when they turn up at the flea market. Thanks for sharing.

[Guava Jelly]

13. thank you

and you are welcome.
I have several more pictures at home i need to go through.
The gravestones are getting pretty worn so I need to get up there and do some rubbing's.

[krispos42]

21. So she married a "Smith"?

A likely story... what was his REAL name? And who were they hiding from?

:rofl:

[Guava Jelly]

25. i don't know

:dunce: :D

[krispos42]

29. Well, I'm sure you'll have no trouble tracking them down

It's not like it's a common name.




:rofl:

http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/dist.all.last

[fudge stripe cookays]

31. No...

that's the photographer's seal at the bottom.

fsc <--actually researching Smiths

[krispos42]

37. Ah! Gotcha! n/t

[Deep13]

22. Alas, poor Betsy.

Sorry, but I didn't know her, Horatio.

[spacelady]

24. That is very cool. My husband's family name is "Dively"

Most of them live in Pennsylvania, too. Hmmm...

[Gormy Cuss]

27. Wow, I never thought she was a troll but I see that she got the granite cookie.

:+


It's cool to find evidence of long dead relatives.

[Guava Jelly]

28. she disrupted

poorly and quite prematurely. :D

[BarenakedLady]

30. How cool is that?

Wow.

Nice to see you by the way! :D

:hi:

[lost-in-nj]

32. this has got to be one of my most favorite posts

on du.....


wonderful...
beautiful...

you did good....

:hug: :hi:

lost

[Guava Jelly]

34. Thank you

I plan to go back some day when i can spend more time.

this is the other Grandma's gravestone.

[applegrove]

33. Genealogy is so amazing. Hello to her!

[Guava Jelly]

35. It is

And also very confusing.
Family stories and records are often way way off too i have found.

[applegrove]

36. Sometimes you can bust a myth..or get supporting documents on another myth. I did both.

Was fun. Like being a little investigator. Fun and touching.