DISCOVERING OUR ANCESTORS

Discovering our Ancestors...WOW what a project. Searching our Families has became a most interesting hobby. The history you discover that you wish you knew when you were in school. History was always my favorite subject in school. Was I ever surprised when I found out my family were Quakers. Then I found my Mayflower Ancestors, talk about exciting. This started out as a project for our daughter Sherri who is 19 and we wanted her to know about our families. I think the best think I have found about doing my Ancestors is the interest of my nephew Dillon Vander Pluym. He always wants to know what new thing that I found and he goes to school and tells his teacher, Dillon is 11 years old and remembers everything. I have been extremely lucky with my search. My Great Great Grandfather - Thomas Wilson Burke owned a funeral home in Mound City, Missouri it seems he had a great interest in genealogy. He kept dozens of little peices of paper that he wrote the Burke names, birth date, death dates, who they married and their children. and dates on. He kept every obituary clipping, and wedding anouncement. My Granfather Paul Slagle Dillon followed up with the Dillon side of the family, by writing his relatives and getting information on the family. My interest started when I was 16. I was spending the summer with my Grandparents, and my Grandmother Helen Keesling-Dillon-Trollinger showed me the Family Bibles. As soon as I seen them I was hooked, it was 22 years later I really started gathering family history. The rewards have been great. Not only am I finding out about our family but I also found my Mom's only real cousin PATRICK BURKE WATKINS. This was really exciting, as no one in the family had heard from him since 1946. My mom had kept his baby book all these years, and when we meet him and his wife Carole this year we gave him his book.
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I would also like to thank the following people for their help at the dead ends.
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Barbara Thorn - Barbara has been a true inspiration. She has always been there for me with all the questions I had. She always took time to answer me and help me with anything I needed. Barbara had researched the Dillon Family for over 30 years. She never found an answer to the question Lydia Wright or Lydia Hodgson. I beleive this is going to stay a mystery. Barbara passed away a few years ago and will be missed very much by me.
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George N. Kidder - When I had problems with the Kidder Family. George helped me alot.
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William Kern - delivered a miricle with the Detwiler mystery. The help I received from him was more than I ever expected to find.
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And to all the others that have answered questions. This is a work in progress and far from being completed. If you find a mistake, please be sure to e-mail me. I will get the information that I have, where I found it and we can get the problem solved together.

Family Tree Maker Reports and Trees

• InterneTree: Cindy Fluri


• Genealogy Report: Ancestors of Dalton Rian Caringer


• Genealogy Report: Descendants of Patrick Burk


• Genealogy Report: Descendants of David Nichols


• Genealogy Report: Descendants of Sergeant William (James ??) Rosamond


• Genealogy Report: Descendants of Luke Dillon

Related Links

• Ancestory.com - Online Genealogy
• Bigelow of New England
• Latter Day Saints Family Search
• Kidder Family History
• Mayflower Passenger List