Sandra Andrews

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Category: [52 Ancestors - 2018- Week 1 `Start']

“Start” My younger sister Linda started researching our Andrews family in the 1980’s, before I had any interest or idea of doing any such thing. She was trying to sort out two John Andrews found in Jefferson County, Ohio. Which one was our 4th great grandfather? John Andrews who came to this county with Lafayette and fought in the American Revolution or John Andrews who came from Washington County, Pennsylvania and bought a tract of 640 acres from the State of Ohio. Our father rather fancied the Andrews who came with Lafayette. Being of French descent appealed to him. She invited me to go with her to the Southwest Branch of the National Archives in Fort Worth to work on census records. It took just that first visit to introduce me to the worlds found in a microfilm reader and I never looked back.

We are not of French descent. Our John Andrews descended from a Scotch-Irish Seceder Presbyterian from Northern Ireland. John fought in the War of 1812 and his father, David Andrews, was in the Pennsylvania Militia when he went on the expedition in 1782 to Sandusky with Colonel William Crawford and was killed by Indians.

Microfilm is being phased out and records now are available right here on my desktop every day and every night. I am grateful for the access to so much but still will miss the trips to a Family History Center locally when a new film comes in or the Family History Library in Salt Lake City on a January trip with the National Genealogical Society and an entire week or two roaming the past.

Sources

• Andrews letters from the household of Samuel Andrews, copies from Marion Andrews Edwards family, descendents of Samuel Andrews

• DNA testing on Ancestry, FamilyTreeDNA and 23& Me

• Culver-Colver Genealogy by Valerie Colver, copy in Sandra Page's collection.