Who's in that tree?
@thebeaddoodler (4262)
Lubbock, Texas
August 14, 2008 7:13am CST
Have you ever done a family tree? My youngest daughter has decided to work on our family tree and has turned up some very interesting material.
All my life I've been told that my great great grandfather, owner of the historic Blazer Mill and first agent to the Mescalero Apache, was named Arthur Blazer. Not so. His name was Joseph! No wonder my searches for Arthur Blazer never led to New Mexico! I was searching for his name, she searched Blazer Mill.
Anyway she contacted the University of New Mexico to see if she could get some pictures and family history documents. Turns out there are 35 boxes of pictures and documents. She's in Oregon and I just don't see any way for me to make a trip to Las Cruces, NM and spend, what, a week or so, going through documents. Well maybe some day. How did all this information elude all the previous attempts to trace my family? The internet is a wonderful invention! 
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@thebeaddoodler (4262)
• Lubbock, Texas
14 Aug 08
Now I have to go through all my mother's and grandmother's pictures and see if I can find any that are that old and figure out who the ones that aren't marked are! Hmmm. now why didn't shedo that while she was here in April? Oh yeah, she was on her honeymoon.
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@thebohemianheart (8827)
• United States
14 Aug 08
Road trip, anybody?*S* I find that very interesting, myself. 35 boxes of documents is a lot of stuff to go through. Might be worth it though, huh?
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@thebeaddoodler (4262)
• Lubbock, Texas
14 Aug 08
Sounds good. Unfortunately the money for road trip and hotel just isn't there. 
Plus I'm afraid by the time I got through one box of pictures I'd be so confused and tired I'd collapse and leave you to do the rest! 
Plus I'm afraid by the time I got through one box of pictures I'd be so confused and tired I'd collapse and leave you to do the rest! 1 person likes this
@thebohemianheart (8827)
• United States
14 Aug 08
We'll get there. As for you getting through the stuff, we would just have to take our time, and I wouldn't mind going through all of it. You know me, when I get engrossed in something I find interesting, I might sit there all day and not think anything of it. You could always go back to the room and rest, or go sight seeing, or something. We'll figure it out. Now that we know there are more records, and pictures, how can we not go explore?*L* Wheels already grinding away.
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@dixie1 (1330)
• United States
14 Aug 08
HI,
I started to dabble with genealogy and quickly become frustrated:)
Where are some sites to make our attempts simplier?
I would love to continue some work in this area.
@ElicBxn (63233)
• United States
16 Aug 08
There is a woman who came to settle in New Amsterdam named Penelope Van Princess (or van Princen). THe ship she was traveling on shipwrecked off the Jersey shore and she stayed behind with her sick husband. They were found and attacked by indians. Her husband was killed and she was later taken and healed by the indians and finally escaped to the English. She married a Richard Stout and they finally settled in the Mommonth County area of NJ. (FYI - that's where Bruce Springsteen comes from.)
@p1kef1sh (45681)
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14 Aug 08
I think that it is fantastic that you are researching your family history. To find an illustrious ancestor and all those records is just fantastic. I have traced my family back to 1687 (or 1644) it gets a little confusing. My Great Great Grandfather was a multi millionaire. Not a very good one because he didn't leave anything tangible for his descendants!! But it's great fund and the internet makes it so much simpler. That said, everything still needs to be evidenced and verified. We have a family tomb that made tracing the family a tad easier but now I have a dilemma. There are more names on the tomb than we think there are in there! What to do now? LOL. I have made friends in very strange places through this hobby. But it is a wonderful journey. I hope that you can make that trip to those places someday.
