I've received very little from any of my mailing lists...the most active
right nowof the ones I'm signed up with (Argo, Bell, Campbell, McMath, Hill,
Quinn, Wyatt, Snead, Mauldin, Cherokee) seems to be the Cherokee list. Maybe
everyone has finally hit all they believe can be found. Everyone has probably
hit every census by now and many of the main sites such as Rootsweb,
Ancestry, Cindy's lists, etc....and they've made phone calls, checked Bible
records
and maybe feel, like I do, they've run the gamut. So now, I'm mostly trying
to contact descendants of my ancestors to just bring my files up to date. If
some of them have records and photos, then icing on the cake.
I've even had a male cousin do the DNA on one of my family lines. It made
some connections with other people, some of who claim to be descended from a
particular "famous" ancestor, but they can't show me the paper trail, so I
can't say for sure I'm connected to the "famous" ancestor.
Seems to me genealogy is just in a frustrating slow down. I remember how
much fun and how exciting it was to start all this...going to the library,
courthouses and cemeteries....finding a clue here and there. Wish I could
recapture some of that.
Well, enough genealogy doom and gloom. I still LOVE the treasure hunt. !
Laura
PS: My one and only known Campbell ancestor is Julia Ann Campbell from
Georgia who married Zedekiah McMath and settled in Clay County, Alabama.
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