Yes, it is funny how each person reacts to these items. But I figure it is
in the past what can we do about it - we always strive to do better than
the one before us - and if the opportunity arises we should take advantage
and do our best, although I don't believe in stepping on another's toes to
get ahead, nor do I believe in hurting one's feelings if I can help it.
But life back then was alot different than it is today. We still hear how
these same things happen today but then there is "punishment" for it
today. The lady who worked with me on this was of the Sinexon branch.
Thomas married her grandmother under the name of Sinex in the beginning -
so he was a Sinex - after he traversed to Indiana, met & married Flora and
on his return "home" he insisted on using the Sinexon in Philadelphia. Now
whether Hannah ever questioned him on this or not we don't know since she
did use the Sinexon name as did "their" children. This Sinexon lady & I -
although distant cousins, became great friends and "co-researchers". I
lost a very good family member and friend when she passed away a couple
years ago.
Antoinette (Tacoma, Washington)
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Mary F Kelley <mfk(a)valink.com> wrote:
Randi and Antoinette,
Thanks for sharing this story. Although not related to Indiana as
far as I know, my sister-in-law was researching her great-
grandfather's family from the Harrisonburg, VA area who had abandoned
his family in the late 1860s and in the days before the Internet she
wrote to someone researching an ancestor with the same first name and
a similar last name out in Ohio. It turned out that her great-
grandfather had moved out there and married again (without benefit of
divorce) and had a second family which he subsequently also
abandoned. My sister-in-law and this person became great friends
and visited back out and forth for many years. A few years later she
was contacted by a third person looking for information about their
ancestor with the same first name and a last name similar to both the
other names and it turned out that they were descended from the 3rd
and apparently last family. While my sister-in-law and the first
person thought the whole situation was amusing, the last person did
not and never contacted my sister-in-law again.
When you do family history you never know what "skeletons" may come
tumbling out of the closet!
Mary F Kelley
On Apr 28, 2013, at 12:26 PM, Antoinette Waughtel Sorensen wrote:
> It's on the website, and it was included in my published book. We
> found
> this out after attending a 2002 family reunion in Delaware - Sinex,
> Sinexon & Sinnickson - I had taken 2 suitcases of Sinex family
> genealogy
> notebooks, all via good ol' Greyhound. This lady looking at my
> notebooks
> said "this is wrong, this is my grandfather" - very interesting it did
> become <smile>. And we both became very interested and pursued it
> further
> -
> Antoinette
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Randi Richardson
> <gftl(a)bluemarble.net>wrote:
>
>
>> That sounds like an interesting story. If it hasn't already been
>> written
>> up
>> for a publication, I hope you will consider doing so.
>>
>> Randi
>>
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