Another Year -- Another 1000 cousins
I see it has been nearly a year since I have posted to the blog.
I have an excuse -- I am STILL finding relatives at the rate of about 100/month.
I started my search for descendants of the immigrant, Ambrose Remeli some years ago, prompted by the realization that if I was to locate contemporary cousins I needed to have an organized framework that tied folks back to the immigrant. I found a genealogical program called Brother's Keeper about 15 years ago and have continued to use through several updates and variations. I rarely encounter relatives "by accident".
My MO is to follow obits (the Allentown Morning Call is a great source) and see if I can tie folks into Ambrose and then try to locate the current locations of family members in the obit. If possible, I will contact the person, verify that the connection is correct and then send a PDF attachment report that gives the person their complete history up the line to Ambrose. I include all source citations and so in this way the person has a jump start on their own genealogy. It's a fun thing.
As of a count today, I now have over 18,023 descendants of Ambrose.
No big break on the major unlinked line, but I did encounter a cousin sitting next to me at the Easton Library a few months ago and he supplied me with a very large number of obits of Remaleys that he had been collecting over the years. I am still working through the list and breaking new ground almost daily.
If you or someone you know has a Ramaley (Remaley, Remaly, Ramaly, etc.) in their background, let me know and I'll see how they fit in. Maybe I'll spark their own interest and that is my goal.
I have an excuse -- I am STILL finding relatives at the rate of about 100/month.
I started my search for descendants of the immigrant, Ambrose Remeli some years ago, prompted by the realization that if I was to locate contemporary cousins I needed to have an organized framework that tied folks back to the immigrant. I found a genealogical program called Brother's Keeper about 15 years ago and have continued to use through several updates and variations. I rarely encounter relatives "by accident".
My MO is to follow obits (the Allentown Morning Call is a great source) and see if I can tie folks into Ambrose and then try to locate the current locations of family members in the obit. If possible, I will contact the person, verify that the connection is correct and then send a PDF attachment report that gives the person their complete history up the line to Ambrose. I include all source citations and so in this way the person has a jump start on their own genealogy. It's a fun thing.
As of a count today, I now have over 18,023 descendants of Ambrose.
No big break on the major unlinked line, but I did encounter a cousin sitting next to me at the Easton Library a few months ago and he supplied me with a very large number of obits of Remaleys that he had been collecting over the years. I am still working through the list and breaking new ground almost daily.
If you or someone you know has a Ramaley (Remaley, Remaly, Ramaly, etc.) in their background, let me know and I'll see how they fit in. Maybe I'll spark their own interest and that is my goal.
posted by Jim Ramaley | 1:29 PM
