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How Far Back Do You Want To Go?Updated May 24, 2011 | My research begins with Clark and Bonham, Davis and Tripp, Young and Hampton~and then of course the names increase exponentially as for every person on the planet.The Clark lines (I have two distinct family lines of "Clarks.") are my primary pursuits at this time (2011).Both lines mysteriously trail off with a whisper in the late 18th to mid 19th centuries ~ which is just "yesterday" in genealogical time. Another mystery is: "whatever happened to" my 3rd great grandfather, Thomas Henry Tripp 1800-1899.We know that he left my 2nd great grandfather, Samuel Volturner Tripp, 1830-1895, and SV's mother, Nancy Isabell Parrot 1806-1856 to join the Mormon migration in the 1840's.There is a recollection that Thomas Tripp had another family at some point but the documentation of this has yet to be discovered.I am very interested in any information and am willing to share all that I know. The love of family history was encouraged from my earliest memories as my grandmother, Laura Marion (from "Marion the Swamp Fox" tales) Tripp, 1911-2006, told many an intriguing story about her grandfather SV Tripp, including that he was the judge of Helen Hunt Jackson's account of Ramona.My mother, Shirley Sally Anne Bonham, 1935-2004, began doing genealogical research and vastly encouraged my own interests.In 1983 I began to help her do work for the San Diego Genealogical Society by typing (yes on an old Underwood) photocopies of census data (just like the ones we see now in images online) from the late 1800s.And now I join with cousins who have also had the genealogical bug for decades. I am only child who lost her only child (Sierra Lauraine Weatherbee 11/14/1988 - 4/14/2006).So in essence, all family is "distant" for me.I thought I would lose the enthusiasm for family research after losing my Sierra since there is no one to follow me, no grandchildren to tell stories to...Well, "no one to follow" becomes transformed into a world of yet-to-be-discovered-kinship with the world... quite a comfort.This joy of finding "new" family combined with my love of history keeps me going.There are also exhortations from authored ancestors to later generations such as myself to continue what they have begun in the documentation of the threads that connect us across and through space and time. My daughter is with the ancestors, and my research discovers other 17 year old ancestors who never had a chance to have children.I am as interested in those 17 year olds as I am in their siblings who did go on to have children and family lines that still exist today.Each of those children and all who died too early were loved as passionately and missed as dearly as my own dear one.The loss of these "children" must have impacted family and friends as much as the loss of my own child.And they all remind us that no one is truly gone who is remembered...Remember, learn, tell, remember... and on we go... with love to my family. |
Jennifer Lauraine Weatherbee
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