Not quite a month into this and I am finding myself feeling bogged down! Of course, every time I opened the books to do research in the past I felt the same way. I ended up finding exhilaration after the fact, when I had time to slow down and look at what I had accomplished.
Nephew Aaron started up a Gallery on his server, to which I have been adding quite literally hundreds of family photos. It is a private site for now, but if the family eventually feels comfortable with the idea, we could, I suppose, go live for the world. It might be a way to find other arms of the family. I've begun to realise how many we already have actually!
Let's see...from memory, family names and lines.....Dupre and Douglas, obviously. Moore, Hopkins, Larner, Hawley, Hill, Guion, Naasson, Mueller, Shepard, Lundgren, Le Tourneaux, Du Maresq,Machen, Lowe,McClain, Kertcher,Johnson,Starkey,Monistorie.....I suspect that's only scraping the surface.
I read an article about a year ago that almost made me sad, and yet gave me a lot of insight. Essentially, the further back one goes the greater number of potential relatives, and that number can easily spread into the thousands, if not millions. By this premise, millions of people could be related to, say, Genghis Khan, or Elizabeth the First. More accurately, there is solid evidence in this that we are in fact much more closely related to each other than a lot of people would like to believe.
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