Since I've finished most of the crocheting and knitting projects I had lined up, I put away the knitter and stored the yarns for another year. Yeah, well, the next year starts in about three weeks, but what the hey!
Anyway, I decided it was time to get the scrapbook of our ancestors and see if I could work on it a little. I've gotten up to Jimmy's family. There's not a lot stuff from that side. We've only been able to go back to Thomas E. Rouse (1811) and Henry Neitzey (no information). My cousin has worked on several branches of the tree and he couldn't go back any further, either. He found exactly the same information that Jimmy's niece, Joyce, had found. Did they just fall out of the sky? I know they came from Germany, or the area around Germany, but that's about all we know. One of the Neitzey ancestors was a baron in Germany and he had to give up the title when he immigrated. He was Jimmy's great (great, great?) grandfather's brother.
My side of the family is a different story. I received information from several sources and also did a little research on my own. We can trace our Marlow ancestors back to 1668 in Charles Co., Md; our Troxell (Tracewell) family was traced to Switzerland, 1689 in Lenk im Semmenthal in Bern, Switzerland. That was Hans Trachsel who immigrated to Egypt, Bucks County, Pa. in 1737.
The Clem side came from Johann Conrad Klemm who was born in 1678 in Ittigen, Germany. My Rudacille family came from Switzerland, too. Thomman Rudisuli was born about 1605 in Frumsen in the Parish of Sax, Kanton St. Gallen, Switzerland. When my son and his wife were in Switzerland, I asked him to try to travel to Kanton St. Gallen, but he looked it up and it was 200 miles away and he didn't have an international driver's license. Drat!!!
Down through the years they came. Living their lives the best way they could. Were they happy? Did they have easy lives or did they struggle? I've often thought of them and I wish I knew more than just births, marriages, children and deaths. Of course, we don't have many pictures at all. That's one thing my decendents will have - plenty of pictures! Since I don't have lots of pictures of them, the scrapbook is a small 8x8. I didn't see any reason to try to make a 12x12 book since I wouldn't have much to put in it.
One day, possibly, my great-grandchildren will be reading my blogs (that I've copied and put in a notebook) and they'll have a better understanding of who I am (was).
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Janice
My family too came from Germany. My maternal side is from Norway. My paternal Gma's sister had made a detailed family tree of them all but all was lost in several moves.
Good to hear you know where you came from, but more importantly, always know where you're going. Tee Hee!
Janice,
I have a massive ton of old negatives that were in Mom's possession. I don't know who all of these people are, but maybe you do. I am getting a negative scanner for Christmas. I plan on scanning them all. I have grown greatly in my abilities to restore photographs. My goal is to get them all scanned and restored. These cold months coming up are perfect weather for staying indoors and doing such. I will happily send you a CD of restored digital copies that you can save on your computer and / or reprint.
I am not angry with you, I just know that we are different people. I think I just got some deeply buried genes that are from some forgottan roots that just don't mesh well with the ones you guys got. But just because we don't get along doesn't mean we are not related.
There are even a ton of negatives of you, mom, and grandma and granddad. Again, a lot of other people I am not as familiar with, but I know you will remember them.
When you get a package in the mail from me, please do not discard it. I want you to have these.
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