Generation 0-1-2-3 DONE!
Thursday July 16 2020
So I am calling these generations DONE! If anything else comes up, I will put it in an addendum. I SO want to get this family finished by the end of the year so we will see how it goes.
In the meantime, I am hearing from my cousin Janet about the Erwin family (Curry Line) and cousin Sue (Lough line) as well as picking up new friends and family through facebook. I always invite them to join us in our facebook group so they can have access to files and information. Many of them have not heard the stories of the Drummer Boy or have no knowledge of anyone outside their immediate group. So this is why I feel collateral lines are so important (see other post on this topic). We have to be able to keep the stories alive for future generations.
Here's another example of a found cousin's response to my friending her on facebook:
Hello this is wonderful news. My father was Michael Harold Curtis. Thank you so much. I will check out the page. I will accept the request I was not sure who you were but was actually curious about the name Curtis. Would love to know how we are related.
I was talking to my sister, Brooke, last Saturday and playing around with the web at the same time. Yes, like most of the family I can do more than one thing at a time. Anyway, just before she called, I had found a birth record that stated that Pauline Maxine Curtis was the 5th child born of her mother of which four survived. Now, this was interesting because, up to that point, I was only sure of, wait for it….ONE child for this couple! I had found Pauline's name through a social security claims record. Before Brooke called I had found four of the children. While talking on the phone, I started the tedious task at wvculture.org, going through ANYone with the surname of Curtis born between the years 1915 and 1922. And…I found her! Amanda Curtis born in 1917! Hooray! The down side is I have yet to find anything else about her but that is a search for the next generation!
Another interesting find is from our Uncle David D. Curtis (he is everyone in the lineage's uncle). His will names the Robey children and the Roney children as his grandchildren. If you've checked any of my writings, you know that Nancy (David's daughter) married Marcellus Robey. She died young, maybe as a result of childbirth complications, and Marcellus did not feel he could support and raise the children. So, as the story goes, he loaded them all up on a horse and went through the country dropping them off to live with various other families. So finding them all has been an issue. David's will tells us that four of them were presumed alive as he named them and left them a bequest to be paid on their 21st birthday. This would mean that the first child, Olive, was probably deceased at the time of the will (1894).
All in all, a pretty productive week!
In the meantime, I am hearing from my cousin Janet about the Erwin family (Curry Line) and cousin Sue (Lough line) as well as picking up new friends and family through facebook. I always invite them to join us in our facebook group so they can have access to files and information. Many of them have not heard the stories of the Drummer Boy or have no knowledge of anyone outside their immediate group. So this is why I feel collateral lines are so important (see other post on this topic). We have to be able to keep the stories alive for future generations.
Here's another example of a found cousin's response to my friending her on facebook:
Hello this is wonderful news. My father was Michael Harold Curtis. Thank you so much. I will check out the page. I will accept the request I was not sure who you were but was actually curious about the name Curtis. Would love to know how we are related.
I was talking to my sister, Brooke, last Saturday and playing around with the web at the same time. Yes, like most of the family I can do more than one thing at a time. Anyway, just before she called, I had found a birth record that stated that Pauline Maxine Curtis was the 5th child born of her mother of which four survived. Now, this was interesting because, up to that point, I was only sure of, wait for it….ONE child for this couple! I had found Pauline's name through a social security claims record. Before Brooke called I had found four of the children. While talking on the phone, I started the tedious task at wvculture.org, going through ANYone with the surname of Curtis born between the years 1915 and 1922. And…I found her! Amanda Curtis born in 1917! Hooray! The down side is I have yet to find anything else about her but that is a search for the next generation!
Another interesting find is from our Uncle David D. Curtis (he is everyone in the lineage's uncle). His will names the Robey children and the Roney children as his grandchildren. If you've checked any of my writings, you know that Nancy (David's daughter) married Marcellus Robey. She died young, maybe as a result of childbirth complications, and Marcellus did not feel he could support and raise the children. So, as the story goes, he loaded them all up on a horse and went through the country dropping them off to live with various other families. So finding them all has been an issue. David's will tells us that four of them were presumed alive as he named them and left them a bequest to be paid on their 21st birthday. This would mean that the first child, Olive, was probably deceased at the time of the will (1894).
All in all, a pretty productive week!