Question of the Week: What's on your genealogical bucket list? [closed]

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Is there anything on your genealogical "bucket list"?

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Answer 1

I would like to know who my great great grandfather is.

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William, I also would like to know the identity of my great great grandfather Ceruti. He could have been an adopted child or a descendant from an adopted child. Alternately, he may have used the surname, Ceruti, to escape something in his past, we don't know. In any case my grandfather did not like to talk about his family and we don't know why.

Answer 2

The only thing on my genealogical bucket list right now is to figure out who my paternal grandfather is, and trace that line back.

Answer 3

Work through brick wall of who the father and mother of my 4th great grandfather, William Barnett Forsythe. And his birthplace. Know information from his death and his children onward, he is my brick wall and often rabbit hole.    Spend more time on other branches of family and try to find more connections for my husbands tree.                        Try to finally discover records from Ireland and then Scotland that connect my Forsythe line, that might not ever happen due to dates.                                                           The hunt continues, just need to give more time to the hunt.

Answer 4

First - My mother's line goes deeply back to the beginnings of the country, but I have a couple of broken links without proof of parentage. DNA is helpful, but I don't have sufficient time to learn and apply the technology. Secondly, I would like to have the Matthew Fuller connection verified one way or another, so that I can stop telling my children we go back to the Mayflower, as we probably do not. Thirdly, I'd like to see more Italian verifications to bolster my own in person research, inadequate as that is.

Answer 5

My major bucket list item has always been to break down the brick wall of my paternal grandfather, Joseph Stutz. With the help of other cousins identified on 23andme.com after taking a DNA test and yet another cousin that had puzzle pieces of information and a desire to connect, that bucket list item has finally been checked off.

Now many of the cousins are gathering to find out when and why the Waxler/Escovitz family left Romania when they did.

Answer 6

My 2 Main Things Are Finding My Scottish and Irish Connections, and Finding the Parents of My 2nd Great-Grandmother, Emma Lousie Rose. She Married George Washington Couch. I Know She Is NOT the Daughter of John Crippen Rose and Bridgett Smith. That Being Said, in 12 Plus Years of Research I Have Not Been Able to Find Her Parents.

Answer 7

I would very much love to find relatives on my mother's side. My maternal great-grandparents' birth names are Cronin, McKenna, Fitzsimmons and Fallon. I've found records of maternal great-great grandparents, and no further. And I haven't found any of their living descendants except for my own immediate family.

Answer 8

Apparently, my birth father was married young and had three children with that first wife before divorcing pre-1964. My only bucket list item is to find those siblings. I have his military records, which indicate he was married early in his military career and later divorced, but I haven't been able to find a marriage certificate or a name for the first wife, which has made it impossible to find siblings. His name is Jerry Adams, far too common a name to be helpful in searching.

Answer 9

So many:

-find out once and for all who the mystery kid in my 2x ggrandfather's household is;

-find the parents of my 3x NH ggrandmother (all I have are one census and a marriage record with no parents);

- prove the line of my GA 3x grandparents (his possible  connection to Dosters from Germany, and who is she?);

-see if we're actually connected to the Menasco family of Mississippi, as I believe;

-travel back to see more of NH, ME and Florence, MA (my mother's birthplace)...and finally get to visit Kirk Deighton and Giggleswick in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

A tall order.

Answer 10

Too many.

1.  Find out the parents of David Jackel and Susanna Heidrich.

2.  Conclusive, irrefutable proof about origins of my Thatcher branch, Hoff branch, Taylor branch. Who is Lorana's father, mother, grandfathers, grandmothers..

3.  Conclusive proof of the Hauser line origins.

4.  Push back my mom's ancestors 1, 2 or 3 generations back.

5.  DNA testing of males in my dad's nephews or brothers.

Answer 11

Parents of Thomas Willis Dorrell 1795 - .. prob. England  .. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dorrell-120

Parents of James McGrath  1839 - .. prob .. Ireland .. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/McGrath-1580

Answer 12

I would like to find out the REAL Rebecca Merrick, wife of Benjamin Edgell and the REAL Rachel Beall or Hepburn, wife of James Veatch. My 6th and 7th great grandparents

Answer 13

My biggest query for my family tree is to find out more about my great grandfather on my paternal side. Many people have tried but we all come to a dead end.

George James William Ford was supposedly born in 1849 in New Zealand, place guessed at as where he said he was born didn't exist then, no birth certificate, parents uncertain.

Answer 14

Top on my bucket list is finding proof that Sarah "Sally" RICHMOND TARVER ( born 1806 NC - died 892 KY) was the daughter of Joseph RICHMOND (b 1780 NC d KY) and Anna CONNELLY RICHMOND (b 1784 VA d 1840 KY).  This is my brickwall to proving line for DAR Patriot.  Have so much trouble proving my female ancestors!!  Please help.  Thank you.

Answer 15

1. As the curator of family genealogical records from at least four family genealogists and historians on my mother's side, I would like to enter data and photos from these collections, solve a few mysteries, and enter most of this information before I make the transition.

2. Having been most recently active in putting together what we do and don't know about our extended family tree on my father's side, I would like to solve some of his family mysteries. If you would like to help with this effort, or if you have any idea about how to go about solving these mysteries, please see the Ceruti family mysteries page on WikiTree. Ovbviously, we need all the help we can get.

https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Space:Ceruti_Family_Mysteries&errcode=new_profile

3. Last but not least, I would like to identify who will take over the family records after I make the transition.

Answer 16

Still looking for my great-grandfather Isaiah Davis' 1803-1855, parents.

Answer 17

To find the link between my ancestors from Ukraine and their Prussian forebears (surnames von Freitag and von Stein)

Answer 18

To find out who are my Ennis family above my ggg grandfather John Ennis who died in Warren County, Ky about 1823.  About 1805-1810 he left Amherst County, Va with most of his grown children and their families and came to Warren Co, Ky.

Answer 19

I am looking for my maternal grandfather whom raised me, ancestry because he was raised by his step father.

Answer 20

Find out my husbands fathers family. It's a complete mystery. We know his grandparents, father and siblings came to Australia from The Netherlands (surname Willebrand) - I have their immigration records with the grandmothers maiden name and occupation of the grandfather -  but once in Australia they disappeared, not on any BDM records, not on any electoral rolls, nothing on google.

It is the only branch I don't have grandparents on - everyone loves to tease me about my Dutch brickwall!