Hi again. So, while I keep working to find out who Rebecca is on my family tree, I decided to go and work on my dad’s mom’s side of the family. Overall, this one is fairly relaxing. I found a dead end on one part of the tree, where my 4th Great Grandmother Elizabeth McPherson Ray has nothing on her but a birth and death date. No parents, no hints, no nothing. But at least there seems to be no question on whether she belongs there.
But, this is also the side of the family where my paternal great grandparents were related to each other on both of each of their parents and closely. See, a couple of generations further back, two Houser brothers married different women, and a Coble/Kobel pair of siblings married two other people, then the children from those matches married cross-ways – the two Houser cousins [both girls] married a son of the Kobel sister, and the other the son of the Kobel brother. Then, those two pairs produced a son and a daughter who married each other, and my paternal grandmother was the product, along with a bunch of other kids. She was the youngest, near as I can tell, certainly one of the youngest.
So, yup, that seems to be the big scandal, genetically speaking, on that side of my family. Actually, to be fair, either the two House brothers, or the two Kobel siblings, were half-siblings. I’d have to spend almost as much time finding which again, because I’m working from my direct ancestor family tree right now, but there you have it.
Next week, there will probably not be a blog post; I’ve a con that I’ll be selling my stuff at next weekend, so I’ll probably be frantically trying to get everything together, or having a nervous breakdown. But join me the week after for more adventures in Genealogy.