February 6, 2021
I have been working on my genealogy at Ancestry.com. A perfect fit for Covid Isolation, a tedious repetitive process with rewards. I submitted my saliva for DNA analysis a couple of years ago. The DNA serves as a navigational beacon while traversing your history. This project is one that I was going to undertake when I get older, I’m only 73! It was/is definitely an adventure of a lifetime. Seeing and reading about your history can add much flavor. I wish I had known I had relatives in Bristol, Rhode Island back in 2014 when there with the band. Both the Ross and the Dickinson sides of my family were active in the Revolution. I also wish had this information when Mary and I did the Great American Adventure of 2013. I’m found of saying, “It’s the Memories!”
April 27, 2021
The genealogy bug has become quite compelling to say the least! I recently discovered the name of the widow of an ancestor in the Baker City phone directory from 1910. Part of the time I’ve been reading local history of the NE Oregon area, from the Wallowa. The USFS has documented some of the early settlers in The “HISTORY OF THE NORTHERN BLUE MOUNTAINS” by Gerald J. Tucker in 1940, as well as the Baker County Historical Society Because of the reading and the genealogy passion. I’ve found a pattern of members of a migrating family’s clan deciding to settle before the rest and stayed along the way. It adds depth to history. I’m also reading “Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce” by Kent Nerburn.
May 7, 2021
Genealogy can be tedious work. I find it calming, taken is short spurts. I intersperse my creative needs with the tedious which seems to fit me well. My creative pursuits include photography, websharing, reading and writing and most of all LEARNING! I aspire to be a Visual Storyteller Extraordinaire, although couldn’t define the term. Meet my 9GGM
I’m going to need a few more pictures to tell this story for sure. When I first started working in Ancestry.com, Nancy Cockeral’s history was a mystery, except that her mother Nancy Wright was in my Thru-Lines as a 3GGF without a link to her daughter until I had worked backwards to find the connection, but once I did it was back to the repetitive process of leaning about your ancestors going back in time. There are lots of jewels you find along the way.
This clan of Dickinson have certainly provided lots of challenges trying to figure it all out. Joel Adams Dickinson and Joseph Dickinson are the same person (birth and death dates). The family lived in Surprise Valley, Modoc County, CA. I’m hoping a visit might provide some threads to pull on. I’m looking for any family history. I already know my DNA goes well beyond this point in time. I will continue adding to this blog topic.
