I am
not someone who flies well. In fact, there have been many times when I have
barely been able to open my eyes on the plane. It isn’t really the flying part
that gets me it is the taking off and landing that doesn’t play well with my
stomach. However, there have been moments from time to time when, for some
reason, there hasn’t been even the slightest twinge of queasiness. Ever
hopeful, I always have a project or two on hand when I fly with the hope that I
will actually be able to remain productive during these unusual moments.
Today
was kind of an in-between flight for me. While I was not in a position to start
pulling out books and files or flip open my laptop, I was still able to think
about some of the questions that still linger in the family tree. Keep in mind
that these are topics that I keep on hand, jotted either on a post it note at
my desk or, as was the case here, written as a note on my cell phone. Here are
the questions that I keep coming back to hoping that I can think of a new angle
or a new place to look:
- Why can’t I find any record of Marcellias Nicholas
Love prior to his marriage to Laura Belle Redcross in 1889?
- Who was the third Jacob Teaford’s mother? Can
this information be found in his service record from the War of 1812?
- Where is the marriage certificate of Paulus
Redcross and Frances Beverly?
- When did the original William McKenna immigrate
to the United States? Where did he enter?
- Where are the records for Alexander Fulton? Any
relation to the Fulton family in Lancaster County?
- Why is there so little information on Mary
Eppright? Is the family really tied to the Muhlenberg line?
- Who is John W. Ardis’ father? Was he in the
Revolutionary War?
- Where can I find more information on the Yeagle and
Corner families?
- Who was John Uttley’s father? What did he do (his son and grandson became Philadelphia Police Officers)?
These
are the questions that I am most eager to answer at this point in my research. This
is why I keep this list with me nearly everywhere I go. It is a simple reminder
that I am sure most genealogists keep on hand not just for when we are sitting
among the stacks or at our laptop at home. Sometimes we just need to step away
from the inundation of information and just think about the possibilities of
where we might find the answers as well as mull over the many theories that we
all have regarding our family mysteries. In the end, there are times when these
undistracted moments can be the most fruitful. But, for now, for me, they
remain questions.
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