New contact makes my interest in #genealogy seem a passing fancy. She is very distantly related on my Faherty side, but has done research on all lines. She let me know about the whole birth family of my 2nd gr grandfather Manus Faherty.

She has generally pieced together all the separate Faherty families both in the US and County Galway who relate to us. Quite extraordinary.

My #genealogy contact talked about septs and clans and back to the 800s AD and was using Irish versions of names. I mostly smiled and nodded. But I did learn things.

Reading passenger lists for William Penn's fleet to Pennsylvania. Some ships made several trips back and forth with passengers. There were also more ships than I realized. Am seeing names of ancestors on several ships, giving date of arrival. The most ancestors I'm seeing on any one trip are on the ship Lamb arriving 22 Oct 1682.
*Cuthbert and Mary Rudd Hayhurst and Children.
*Robert and Alice Heaton and children.
*Thomas and Margery Stackhouse.

#genealogy #history

A great uncle, two horses, my grandfather, his sister. I have no idea why they're all dressed up and posing with horses. Guessing this is in the 1920s. Grandpa died in 1933, so that sets a firm limit. #CoSoPhotography #Genealogy

Now #DNA test matches are often adoptees or have some big branch of their tree missing. It's fun to help when I'm able. Two different times I've been able to tell someone who a parent or both parents is/are. That's a wonderful feeling. #Genealogy #DNA

I regret that everyone is much more cautious about #DNA testing now. I used to get swamped with new DNA matches in mid to late January after tests had been given as Christmas presents. #Genealogy

23andMe gives my paternal haplogroup as R-DC25, which is actually pretty detailed info. I think there's only one lower branch it could be. They give my maternal haplogroup as X2, which I think is a lot more general. I wish someone more familiar with these matters could tell me more. #Genetics #DNA #Haplogroup #Genealogy

Mom's Aunt Win Ryan. Her husband Andy Roberson (Robbie). My older brothers. Nov 1963. Picture taken a foot from where I'm sitting.

Mom stayed with her through high school. My Dad's family stayed in her club house when the old farmhouse burned down in 1940. She was born 13 Jan 1895. She died in 1968. I just barely remember her. Mainly her death. I remember Robbie better. He lived until 1977. She was a nurse. Her husband ran a gas station. She was known for her humor. #Genealogy #CoSoPhotography

The birthday of my 2nd great grandfather Jeremiah Roach (1828-1897) So Jeremiah was not a bullfrog, he was a roach. He was born in eastern Ohio, married my ancestor Lydia Stackhouse (1822-c 1854) and moved to Indiana, where they had three children. Lydia died shortly after the last child was born. Jeremiah moved to Iowa and married again, having another nine children. He moved to Kansas, then back to Iowa. Don't know too much about him other than he had "palsy" for many years. #genealogy

My mom always talked about staying with her grandma. That grandma would be 161 years old today. Her birthday. She's the one on the left. Mathilda Deterding Donjon (1862-1940) #Genealogy

I have a ledger book my 2nd great grandfather wrote all sorts of random things in during the mid 1800s. One item is a copy of a letter to a cousin who lived in Pennsylvania. I don't know how they were related. I just got an AncestryDNA match who descends from this cousin. DNA is so amazing! #Genealogy

Guess it's an old Finding Your Roots. #Genealogy

A new Finding Your Roots is on PBS tonight. Unless I'm wrong. #Genealogy

I have an unreasonable desire that everyone on earth be #DNA tested and use the results to create a massive family tree. What could go wrong? #genealogy

Nothing quite as awkward as explaining to someone their grandparents were first cousins. Well, parents would be more awkward. #genealogy

Mom with a cousin's boy in 1980s. #CoSoPhotography #genealogy

All three sisters at the middle one's wedding in 1950. Mom's on the right. #CoSoPhotography #genealogy

Around 1937. Mom is the smiling girl behind her mom. Standing girl is the sister who was "too young" for the 1933 picture. We think the girl in the very back of the car is a first cousin, but not sure. I love this picture of mom. She looks so happy. #CoSoPhotography #genealogy

The youngest known picture of Mom. She's holding the teddy bear at age 2-1/2, shortly after her father died. About April 1933. Younger sister was just a few weeks old. They thought she was too young for the picture. 🤷‍♂️ #cosophotography #genealogy

The earliest ancestor reported here on CoSo was born in 1872. The most entertaining story I heard here was about a great grandma born in 1881 who always brought along a talkative parrot who asked to have his head scratched. 😀

The collective memory of CoSo goes back at least 150 years! #genealogy