Posted by: daynac84 on: September 10, 2009
Okay, so I’m still creating my research web but doing a little wiggling of my information as I use data from one inquiry as a foundation to enlarge my web:
I received an e-mail response from Rhonda Stewart, Arkansas genealogy and local history specialist, at the Arkansas Studies Institute. She offered me websites and researach ideas to continue my inquiry. This evening I took my ancestor’s name James (Homer) Dobbs, who was adopted by the Cross family in the 1890s and looked the name up in the Ancestory.com census records. It was so interesting; I had to call my dad at 10:30 pm to tell him some of the information I found.
At this point, while I’m not sure how much conclusive evidence I’ll find because of the shady information that comes from family stories, I’m enjoying the inquiry. I feel confident about my search because I know the direction I am going in and each portion of my search seems to build.
September 10, 2009 at 8:43 pm
I really don’t know much about researching family trees, but the idea has always intrigued me. I have a distant cousin who has a huge, ongoing family tree research project on my dad’s side of the family. He takes pictures and names of every single family member at a family reunion every year and files them away. On my mom’s side, some distant relative did a family tree that resulted in a thick book all about what he found. So you could go pretty far with this if you wanted.