I love the family stories! I was told quite a few as I was growing up, so when I started my genealogy journey about 40 years ago I found out that most were just that - stories! Not true at all! I really enjoy finding things like this out about my family - with my grandparents (all 4j were still alive for me to share my findings😄😄😄
Sometimes questions creates more questions than answers. My great grandfather had a family before he met my great grandmother. She died in a house fire with their 3 young children. Then after he married my great grandmother, she died from poisoning and their 3 young children put up for adoption. Always made me wonder if it was him. We'll never know.
Did he marry again? My great Aunt became a widow in 1912, several years later when she was going to remarry her first husbands children were unwanted by her new husband so she was going to take and surrender them to an orphanage. My Grand mother took them instead, so she had 9 bio children, and 3 children of her sister's. my grandfather was a business owner who while not extremely wealthy was definitely comfortable. So she could afford to care for the children. Placing children in orphanages was not unheard of.
I agree. I'm pretty sure my Dad had enough affairs for me to have brothers and sisters out there and I don't want to know them bc he was a awful person. No dna sent from me or my brother's.
@Carole R he did remarry in the 50s and unfortunately, finding Canadian records past the 30s is difficult so I'm not sure what happened to her or if she also met an untimely and tragic demise. My Mother's side of the family has a history of family trauma that I can clearly trace back to this event. My grandmother ended up being adopted and abused, she met my grandfather and used him as an escape from her bad home life at age 16. Had 3 kids and then she left in the middle of the night and she never came back. Even to this day I've never met or spoke to her. Fast forward, and my Mother ran away from home at 16 never to return. If anything, it's taught me that family dynamics and traumas are intergenerational, and can carry on for 100 years. It's crazy.
My GGGGGGG Grandfather fought in the Revolutionary War in the South Carolina Militia and I have found family that fought on both sides of the Civil War. I was told that my GGGGGGG Grandfather fought with George Washington ❤ I read somewhere that a lot of Indian people were counted as White during the enumeration in the census if they lived off the reservations among the white man. Talk about a rabbit hole, I can look at pictures of my Grandmother's and see they are Native American but have a hard time proving it. They lived in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas.
I have two mysteries that you can not solve. 1) Been told by my abuela paterna that we are related to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain. Confirmed 20 yrs later by the same story by cousins that are 20 yrs younger then my abuela. They also informed me that relatives were asked to be dukes of Spain. I can't find the parents of Liborio Aragon born around 1755 2) Other brickwall is my Great Grandfather alias "John Wallace". I did find out his true name is Johann Karas / Karasch born in Bobroviniki Poland around 1871 ...... I know his parents are Moshe Karas and Hannah "Anna" Wabiek (spelling is unsure) . Don't know where alias John Wallace disappeared to or died.
The relation to Franklin : she was came across as very flat in affect and seemed uninterested, like she was over with it even before they began looking into the connections!
Y'all were ahead on the times in curiousity in genealogy. You should try bringing back this series today.
This genealogy road show should be produced for television..its very interesting
It was. PBS
I love the family stories! I was told quite a few as I was growing up, so when I started my genealogy journey about 40 years ago I found out that most were just that - stories! Not true at all! I really enjoy finding things like this out about my family - with my grandparents (all 4j were still alive for me to share my findings😄😄😄
Sometimes questions creates more questions than answers. My great grandfather had a family before he met my great grandmother. She died in a house fire with their 3 young children. Then after he married my great grandmother, she died from poisoning and their 3 young children put up for adoption. Always made me wonder if it was him. We'll never know.
Did he marry again? My great Aunt became a widow in 1912, several years later when she was going to remarry her first husbands children were unwanted by her new husband so she was going to take and surrender them to an orphanage. My Grand mother took them instead, so she had 9 bio children, and 3 children of her sister's. my grandfather was a business owner who while not extremely wealthy was definitely comfortable. So she could afford to care for the children. Placing children in orphanages was not unheard of.
I agree. I'm pretty sure my Dad had enough affairs for me to have brothers and sisters out there and I don't want to know them bc he was a awful person. No dna sent from me or my brother's.
@Carole R he did remarry in the 50s and unfortunately, finding Canadian records past the 30s is difficult so I'm not sure what happened to her or if she also met an untimely and tragic demise.
My Mother's side of the family has a history of family trauma that I can clearly trace back to this event. My grandmother ended up being adopted and abused, she met my grandfather and used him as an escape from her bad home life at age 16. Had 3 kids and then she left in the middle of the night and she never came back. Even to this day I've never met or spoke to her. Fast forward, and my Mother ran away from home at 16 never to return.
If anything, it's taught me that family dynamics and traumas are intergenerational, and can carry on for 100 years. It's crazy.
The first lady is the first 4th generation Californian I've seen. Most today are first and second. Very cool.
My GGGGGGG Grandfather fought in the Revolutionary War in the South Carolina Militia and I have found family that fought on both sides of the Civil War. I was told that my GGGGGGG Grandfather fought with George Washington ❤
I read somewhere that a lot of Indian people were counted as White during the enumeration in the census if they lived off the reservations among the white man. Talk about a rabbit hole, I can look at pictures of my Grandmother's and see they are Native American but have a hard time proving it. They lived in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas.
Benedict Arnold is an ancestor of mine through my mother's grandparents.
I just watched this earlier today. Why put up re-runs if it’s still within the PBS family?
I have two mysteries that you can not solve. 1) Been told by my abuela paterna that we are related to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain. Confirmed 20 yrs later by the same story by cousins that are 20 yrs younger then my abuela. They also informed me that relatives were asked to be dukes of Spain. I can't find the parents of Liborio Aragon born around 1755 2) Other brickwall is my Great Grandfather alias "John Wallace". I did find out his true name is Johann Karas / Karasch born in Bobroviniki Poland around 1871 ...... I know his parents are Moshe Karas and Hannah "Anna" Wabiek (spelling is unsure) . Don't know where alias John Wallace disappeared to or died.
The relation to Franklin : she was came across as very flat in affect and seemed uninterested, like she was over with it even before they began looking into the connections!
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