Over 20,000

I don't update this blog as often as I should because I usually spend my research time trying to find, or to verify, cousins. But I see that I managed to miss a somewhat important milestone in that a couple of months ago I surpassed the 20,000 mark for descendants of Ambrose. 20,200 to be more precise.

Although the quest for new cousins is somewhat pressing because folks have a unfortunate tendency to die before I get their family info recorded, my thoughts have turned to ways I want to distribute what I know of Ambrose's descendants. Of course I find new connections that often render previous connections suspect (or even simply incorrect) but I realize that the history will never be finished if I simply work on "new" connections.

While I believe the bulk of my work will only be handled in electronic form, I want to produce some hard copy version that will at least give future generations a road map to rediscover their individual genealogies and so I am struggling with that now. In the meantime I am trying to clean up some earlier work that I "inherited" from Elizabeth "Isabel" (Remaley) Taylor (1908-2007), a Westmoreland based genealogist. She spent a lot of her time corresponding with family members from each of her 16 great-grandparents and I hope to get some of the non-Remaley items into the hands of family members working those lines.

But I will still welcome emails from folks interested in the Remaley/Ramaley line.

Jim