Tennessee Pastoral

Dispatches from Judy and Manoj : Genealogy: Or, trundling through cemeteries

Saturday 03 July
2004

Genealogy: Or, trundling through cemeteries

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Spent the day talking to family, and happily trudging through nearby cemeteries where relatives were buried, squinting at headstones trying to decipher the dates. Learned a lot about the Shardos and the Chappies and Littmans in Darke and Shelby counties, going back to the mod 1850’s.

In the evening, Judy’s brother Jon came in with large Boxes full of documents and funeral books and a genealogy report for part of the family done in 1950, and things like copies of reports from Ellis Island and so on. We have data for over 200 people now.

Stayed up late playing reinstalling windows on Reyna’s computer.

manoj