in pursuit of a pedigree

I’m pretty sure that I’ve been able to get into genealogy at the best time. Nine years ago, when my mother began this research, she wrote to a lot of people, she visited a few of the local historical societies, she talked to the living relatives and she managed to work out a decent pictures of her WINSTANLEY line, who began in Leeds, York, England and ended up in Collingswood, Camden County, New Jersey.

I was very fortunate when I began my family genealogy — my mother had done work on her own lines a few years ago for a project in college and had completed a lot of the ground work, particularly on her maternal line for her mother Beatrice TRAINER (1938-2006). She had already gathered a great deal of information about Beatrice’s father Harold TRAINER (1907-1967) and his parents, the first of that line to emigrate to the United States from their native England.

Edmund Hewitt Priest

Born: abt 1850 in Pennsylvania, United States

Mother: Sarah [--?--]
Father: George W Priest

Death:

Margaret B Krips

Born: 14 Jan 1858 in Pennsylvania, United States

Mother: Sabina Gary
Father: Thomas Krips

Germaine (German) Smith Hammell

Born: 15 Sep 1854 in Camden, Camden County, New Jersey, United States

Mother: Mary Locke
Father: Joseph R Hammell

My Trenton trip was just about a success. I came home with about eighteen documents and found almost all of the records I went there to search for. A few marriage records still remain elusive and I’ve just about given up hope of finding some of them in the state archives. I’ll have to pay a visit to the Cumberland County repositories in the near future since a great deal of my ancestors on the Hudson side have come from there.

I’m kind of excited to be writing this post because it’s the first real post since beginning my blog six weeks ago. I’ve been working on adding all my ancestors to the blog archives and while I’m nowhere near completed, I’m far enough through to start concentrating on other aspects of the blog.

Anna F Wright

Born: 5 Dec 1847

Mother: Martha Jane Paullin
Father: Samuel Wright

Death: 2 Nov 1936 in Bridgeton, Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States

David Henry Ware

Born: 24 Aug 1844

Mother: Sarah Bonham
Father: Ebenezer Ware

Death: 5 Jun 1914 in Deerfield, Cumberland County, New Jersey. United States

Mary Bowen

Born: 18 Mar 1854 in Greenwich, Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States

Mother: Mary [--?--]
Father: Josiah Bowen