Playing with my family tree...
Okay, I am addicted. It is the perfect way to explore some of my stalking tendencies and make it seem "okay". ;-) So far I have been able to go back quite a ways, at least to the point where I can't keep things straight anymore and don't have any way of verifying things. It all kind of started when I was trying to figure out just who all these "cousins" were and wondered how and if we were really related. There are still some gaps but next time I am home I hope to get a lot of pictures and help from family.
I started out with some tree information my Uncle Jim had put together for my mother's side of the family, and then added the Stavely tree which was a combination of some of my Uncle Charlies work and another Stavel(e)y way up the branch. I started out on Ancestry but am moving stuff over to WikiTree so it is free for anyone to join and contribute. It isn't as comprehensive as Ancestry.com but it will make the basic links to other trees and people so it can grow as more information is added. Best of all it is FREE! I am also working on putting one on this site that can be maintained separately but we will see how that goes.
The one thing that I have found kind of interesting is how little I knew about my Grandma Helen's family. Of all my family members I was probably the closest to her just never stepped back to see how little I know about the family beyond her immediate brothers and sisters. When I wrote one relative their response back was they had been told "There is nothing back there but Navajo's and Horse Thieves". Well, in my book that made me even more interested. Finding my great-grandmothers name was Smith was a bit daunting but so far it wasn't as difficult as I thought. (If you take a look at the tree and find that everything is wrong, well then, perhaps it was as difficult as I thought!)
This is mainly just a place to share with family some of the things I find. If there is any copyrighted material that you wish removed, please let me know. I have tried to link back wherever I could.
Kris
I started out with some tree information my Uncle Jim had put together for my mother's side of the family, and then added the Stavely tree which was a combination of some of my Uncle Charlies work and another Stavel(e)y way up the branch. I started out on Ancestry but am moving stuff over to WikiTree so it is free for anyone to join and contribute. It isn't as comprehensive as Ancestry.com but it will make the basic links to other trees and people so it can grow as more information is added. Best of all it is FREE! I am also working on putting one on this site that can be maintained separately but we will see how that goes.
The one thing that I have found kind of interesting is how little I knew about my Grandma Helen's family. Of all my family members I was probably the closest to her just never stepped back to see how little I know about the family beyond her immediate brothers and sisters. When I wrote one relative their response back was they had been told "There is nothing back there but Navajo's and Horse Thieves". Well, in my book that made me even more interested. Finding my great-grandmothers name was Smith was a bit daunting but so far it wasn't as difficult as I thought. (If you take a look at the tree and find that everything is wrong, well then, perhaps it was as difficult as I thought!)
This is mainly just a place to share with family some of the things I find. If there is any copyrighted material that you wish removed, please let me know. I have tried to link back wherever I could.
Kris
embeddable family tree updated live from WikiTree