Begat Chat

Recently Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings wrote about Ancestry Member Trees. He wondered if anybody had uploaded their family tree to Ancestry and how it had gone. I proudly commented that I had.

I have my genealogy file uploaded to Ancestry's Family Tree, and RootsWeb's WorldConnect. (I was going to link to my file at Ancestry, but I just realized that having the tree "public" at their site means that my full name as well as all other living members' full names are visible. With all the identity theft issues, I decided I better mark my tree "personal." People can still find out information on my deceased ancestors, but no information on the living ones.) RootsWeb just shows living people's last names. I guess this isn't a whole lot better, but it gives me a little more comfort - and people can't tell which of the living members I am.

Two different women have found me in the last month through my RootsWeb file. One has emailed pictures and information to my mother and me about our Mullins line and the other one has mailed many documents and sources to me on my Bickel line. I also found someone else just last week who emailed me a picture of my husband's GGG Grandmother (picture below), an ancestor who's been quite elusive to us. I've only had my file up for a few months, but I have had some great finds since then.

I was also recently contacted by someone through Ancestry, but we haven't shared any information yet. I'm excited to continue finding more cousins!

Emily Wilson - Born in 1814 in Kentucky, parents unknown.

(I feel like I just wrote one of those success stories in the RootsWeb Weekly Emails :>)