Other family trees

I have my basic 3, my mother's family (The Booths); my father's dad's family (The Rogers); and my father's mom's family (The Swaseys.)

If I spent the rest of my life just filling in new information on those trees, (on Ancestry) I probably wouldn't get finished.

And then I started looking at the wives of my 3 sons...so that's 3 more families to see where they came from. Oh my, they are so interesting. I think only one daughter-in-law is doing her own research, and we got into a mess last week when we found both our trees had the same name. So that's been changed and we can now see the work of the other, and not lose it.

I also have 2 friends who were interested in seeing a bit of their trees, and I don't do much more with them...but trees over on Ancestry have a habit of growing when I'm not looking.

Oh, and I have a fourth cousin who does genealogy on the Swasey tree, she has the same great times three grandfather! I've never met her, and she lives about a thousand miles away in California.

I recently switched back to the Swasey Family Tree (father's mother's family) here on the blog. So I'll stay on that tree for a while. They mainly came from New England, so there are lots of good records available.

So I'm going to spend some time this week looking at my fourth cousin's family. She has some different children in the very first family, which I've been scratching my head about. Her James family started with Ruth A. Swasey who married William D. James. I've got 7 children from them, and she's got 4.

So I started with one of the unlikely ones, read through all the information on a woman who lived until her 90s, and she's definitely a Swasey James ancestor, even though she was born in Iowa in 1857. My question was (of course) how and why did my great times three grandmother who lived her whole life (I thought) in Providence RI, end up having a baby in Iowa?  I still think she might had been adopted.

But I'll give you more information, in a bit more coherent version, tomorrow!