vmajeske's blog

When I first got interested in genealogy I was a mother of four young children, none of which were in school yet. I did not have much time to devote to the interest, however I felt prompted to ask my family members for information. I found that they provided a good start for my search. My mother had collected some information about ten years earlier. She was no longer interested in collecting any more information and gave me all the information she had collected. A family group sheet with her parents and siblings. A pedigree chart was started but a lot of information was incomplete. There were several other group sheets, but there was a lot of missing data on the sheets. My Grandfather was deceased, but mother had a letter from his cousin in Kansas that had copied the family Bible information on his father’s line. On grandfather’s mother side, there was an onion skin paper booklet about the Gunselman Family. The author had corresponded with my mother when she was putting together her booklet. My mother did not have very much information on her grandmother’s line so the information was very incomplete but there was some of the other lines that had extensive data. My grandmother on my mother’s side who had been left an orphan at age ten was still living. Grandmother had a published booked on her father’s side but as her mother died when she was only one year old, she did not know much about her mother’s line. My parents had divorced when I was a teenager. I had no written record for anything on my father’s line. I knew he had grown up in Floyd County, Kentucky and the names of my grandparents and the names of their eleven children but that was about all I had. I have gone back to this beginning information again and again. How fortunate I was to have such a substantial amount of information to start with.