The Amazing Pennsylvania Link....

While in Gettysburg we went to the library to do some genealogy on Tom's family.  Back in Kentucky we found that Tom's maternal grandmother was born in Pennsylvania, something he didn't know.  So we decided to go to the local library to find out more.  After doing some checking and a little research on their Ancestry Data Base we came up with few facts.  A maternal great- grandfather and grandmother and a mystery as to why Tom's grandmother lived with an Uncle during the 1910 Census. It didn't make sense and we wanted to know why.

I pulled out my surf board and began my internet surfing.  After a few small swells and few clues I came across the big Tsunami wave.  I had located a family tree with Tom's Maternal grandmother and branches which extended back to the 1600's.  All this hard work done by a wonderful person in his family who had been researching and working on this for more than 20 years.  We now had names, links churches they were members of, births and deaths, cemeteries they were buried in.  The most exciting information was the mystery was solved as to why his grandmother lived with an Uncle.  It seems her mother passed away so the children went there to live for a while and had been there when the Census took place.  Tom contacted the person doing the research and they have spoken via email a few times.

So Tom finally has some history to his family and knows of the deep roots he has in Pennsylvania. To find out this information has been a terrific bonus to our adventure....