Rapidly Moving Backwards
I was thrilled this week to get another piece of the family tree puzzle that absorbs me lately, a copy of the marriage registration for my second set of great, great grandparents. With this type of record, I can go back at least one more generation, because the record shows the names of the fathers of both bride and groom. In this case, however, I was able to go even further. With a little sleuthing I discovered more family information from online sources, and asked another researcher of a similar family name for some help. He has been working on his for about 30 years, he says, and he readily supplied me with details for my family line going back to about 1635. Wow! In a couple of days I jumped two centuries.