Ramaley Genealogy

The place where I can put up my recent research for the descendants of my 5th great grandfather, Ambrose Remeli. To contact me, please email to james.ramaley@nospam.com [replace "nospam" by "gmail"]

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Born in Columbus, Ohio, I graduated from OSU and then studied to be a college math professor (Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico in 1967), but after several years teaching at Bowling Green State University (Ohio) and the University of Pittsburgh, PA, I got sidetracked into a career in computers and eventually in publishing. I retired in 1999 from a 25-year career with Ziff-Davis Publishing Company in New York where I had been Vice President of Circulation Systems. Now Mary Ann (my wife) and I "do genealogy", enjoy our Gettysburg home, and travel.

Saturday, March 24, 2012

The Search Continues

Some folks have noted that it has been some time since I posted here and so I am posting today! I now have some 17,269 descendants of the immigrant Ambrose, Remeli and the tree is still growing at the rate of about 1000 per year. Of course it grows unevenly since the number of descendants added to a branch depends upon how far back the branch was linked. And there are still a couple of big mystery branches that we have not yet been able to tie in. The biggest branch is that headed by John Remely (b abt 1770, d 1802). John married Maria Catharina Bender and heads up a branch that contains some 575 descendants.

I am still pondering how to publish the info. I like books, but the number of volumes would be large and so I am leaning towards a one-line summary for each descendant. Even that will be a volume of about 350 pages. Then include a family tree database.

Anyway, that's where things stand today. If anyone reading this is interested in family history, please contact me via email at comcast.net.

Jim R.