I have started this blog as a way of sharing some of my work. I don't know a lot of genealogists, so I hope to meet more this way and spare my non-interested friends and family the gory details of census records and death certificates I often feel like discussing.
As for who I research and what I am researching now, let me catagorize these things some to keep them from becoming a tangled mess.
- I use Ancestry.com as my main resource and any other resource I can find to fill in the blanks of who what and when. I travel to the Archives and libraries to find documents that haven't been indexed yet.
- I started with my paternal grandfather's family, the Kouns. As I branched through them I have added McNeal, McGeary, Barney, Triplett, Salmon, families and many many more. I have an extensive history that travels through Pennsylvania, Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky. I myself was born in Florida.
- I moved into my grandmother's family and found the Karnap family, the Horstmann family and Orndorff family. While many were 1800's immigrants from Germany, the Orndorff family has a long history stretching into the 1700's with the Eskridge family in Maryland.
- Recently I started working on my Husband's family and have added the names or Rogers, Tipton, Drake, Bailey, and Watson to the list. Most of these names are found in Estill County Kentucky and have nearly always been there!
I hope to share some of the interesting things I learn about research and thing that I find along the way. I hope you'll join me as I untangle this mess of tree limbs.
