[Pontiac]

You are fortunate that your family came to the States before the Civil War.

For those of us that came after the historical ties often end at the water’s edge.

[mairdie]

My husband is Polish and has NO genealogy that he can trace. So I offered him half my ancestors. I help friends with what I can but I have no international subscriptions. In this country I subscribe to maybe 3 newspaper archives.

Mother's mother
Illegitimate and background lost in mist

Mother's father
Came in the 1600s to avoid English prison

Father's father
Pennsylvania Scotch/Irish back into the 1700s; small town though one uncle did have the first oil well discovered on his property; gold miner who won and lost fortunes from Alaska down to Central America

Father's mother
Royal Scotch line thru Robert the Bruce; Rev John questioned Charles II to let him land in Scotland, then had to flee to Holland when his religious details differed from mainstream; all educated theologians and soldiers and lawyer/politicians going back forever; in this country, all theologians, soldiers and lawyer/politicians