When I began researching my mother's side of the family -- Wooden -- little did I know it would take me on an adventure to the Blankenships of Virginia and their movement to North Carolina and, eventually, to Kent, Indiana (where Martitia Blankenship met my great-great grandfather William Earl Wooden).
I have one puzzle left to solve here... James Hendricks who married Sarah/Sally Marshall Chambers in Kent, IN.
My father's side of the family -- Mac/Mc/Magruder (we spell it MacGruder) -- was, I thought, impossible because of children having been placed in orphanages, illigetimate births within a family that were kept hidden from descendants, etc.Not only has this puzzle been mostly solved, it takes my father's family back to the year 1100 in Scotland on one side, and to Elder William Brewster of the Mayflower via my illigetimate grandmother.
I've met five new cousins on the Internet in the past few months.All of them had information that was so helpful and they are wonderfully nice people.The experience has really been an adventure... one that started in 1999 (and here it is, 2006).
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