This is soooo cool!
We checked our email the other day and discovered a message from someone who was searching for their ancestors. As it turns out, they found this thread from 2006:
http://www.americanponders.com/forum/index.php?topic=249.msg2336#msg2336More specifically, this post by me:
http://www.americanponders.com/forum/index.php?topic=249.msg2336#msg2336:
Interesting. I love reading about everyone's ancestry. I have often wondered about the "six degrees of separation" theory and how it may relate to the folks here on the forum. Maybe some of us are even distantly related and don't even know it. Cool
Krista, my hubby's father was an accomplished organist as well, and was taught by a famous person who used to play at St Paul's in London, and then his father or brother made Jenn pianos. We'd like to research that side of the family more. I would love the opprotunity to go to England and visit cemetaries and churches. Someday! Kevin's mother's side is interesting, her tree goes back hundreds of years.
My brother has done an amazing amount of research on my ancestry. He's been to England several times, and finally got to go to East Germany after the wall came down. He hit a dead end in Gotha, 1844. So if anyone knows anyone related to Johann Drescher or Marth Weibezahl just give us a ring!
As far as the English side goes, there are lots of pretty common names- like Brown, Bulmer, Wilkinson, Hyde, Allen, Dunne, Hall, Clark, Hind, Palmer, Mowbray, Fitzgerald, Fenton, Lloyd, and Jenn.
Actually, he played at "All Hallows", not St Paul's.
2006! We are so tickled. Kevin re-subscribed to Ancestry.com to hopefully get more information. We'd been unsuccessful there before, but due to the help of this new connection we discovered a wealth of information. We were able to get several generations back. We've been able to go back to approximately 1735- 1803 with a great deal of accuracy.
The thing is, maybe we could have done it with Ancestry.com.... maybe not. What we really needed was a real HUMAN connection. And believe it or not, it was through American Ponders!!!!!
So happy and Sooo endlessly grateful to Jerry and Sean. It's a tough time for all of us, but this is a shining light of happiness amidst economic doom. Thanks!