52 Ancestors Week 51: Future

Question

Time for the next 52 Ancestors challenge!

Please share with us a profile of an ancestor or relative who matches this week's theme:

Future

From Amy Johnson Crow:

Although we spend most of our genealogy time looking back, we should also look ahead. Week 51's theme is "Future." Who or what do you want to find next year? Which family member do you think will pick up the family history and carry it forward? Another way to think of it is to think of an ancestor who seemed to be "ahead of their time."

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Just one more week to go!

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The future I hope fo in the next year is that I will complete and share with family the research I have worked on for so long on the ancestors of my husband, Bill Chidlow. I want them to know the vast history of their forbears, the Chidlow farmers who lived along the English/Wales borders, the lives of the Frohbergers in the Eastern parts of Germany or Prussia or whatever their country was called in their lifetimes, the Pozzi immigrants to Scotland whose immigrant story can only be lightly understood and whose children then became immigrants in Canada themselves, and the Dinsmores who survived the massive shift from weaving trades to merchantile success in Canada.

Yes, I do want to share my passion for the wonder of our past and how it shapes our future, the understanding of human challenges and failures that comes from knowing of our family's past, and the joy in facing our own future strengthened by knowledge of our past.

Answer 1

Well I hope I can get better answers on my mystery Mitchell line.  Frederick Mitchell (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mitchell-21206) is the farthest back I have and all the information points to him being from Kentucky.. so I'm hoping next year I can get better answers on him to expand that line.

Answer 2

52 Ancestors Week 51: Future

I hope that in the future one of my younger family members would develop the love for genealogy that I have, so that when I pass from this world to the next, I have someone to turn all of my records and pictures to. Someone that would take the torch from me and carry it on to the next generation. I do not want all of my 30+ years of work to be for nothing.

Answer 3

In the coming year I have several brick walls I'd like to break down.    One I plan on focusing on is who the father of my 3x great grandmother Martha Cagle (Cagle-751) was.   I have some suspicions based on DNA matches but I need to start working with some more distant matches to try to narrow it down.

Answer 4

I don’t know if anyone in my family will carry on, neither of my kids seem interested. I would hope whatever I can add here will be useful to someone in the future, even if my kids never pick up the hobby.

Answer 5

I've interpreted this question as more to do with who and what I'll be researching in 2020, in between working hard at my final year of high school. My goals for next year's research is split into two: work that I do for projects, and work that I do for my family.

For projects, I would like to:

• Continue my work as the team leader for Warwickshire by working on transcriptions and adding necessary space pages, and encouraging a communicative and collaborative team.
• I would also like to work on the research I am doing for Vermont as part of the United States project; I'd like to add further space pages for necessary events and topics, pull further research on Vermont's military history, and work on the unsourced profiles in the state.
• Furthermore, I would like to focus my efforts on my Place Study for Lydney, Gloucestershire, where my mother's family immigrated to New Zealand from. I've been doing research into a murder which took place there in 1771, and prominent families from the area such as the Joneses and Wynters.
• I also need to continue to work on my list of Maisons des Illustres for the France project. Once the list is complete, I can link the illustrious people to the list, work on their profiles, and create profiles for those who do not have one.

For my family:

• I definitely want to crack the case of my Utting brick wall. You wouldn't think that there would be dozens of "Robert Uttings" born in Norfolk in the same 10-year space, but you'd be surprised.
• I'd also like to get further back in my Bolton and Marsh ancestors, as well as build my tree outwards to find more cousins.

Answer 6

Recently, I've been trying to focus on getting my nieces and nephews genealogy (my siblings spouses genealogy) input as a way to get some of them interested in carrying on the work.

Answer 7

What are my future plans for family history?  That's a good question to ponder.  Last year I ended the 52 weeks/#52 "Resolution" with my brick wall Young family as a to-do for this year.  I haven't made much progress as other things kept happening to distract me.  And, if it were easy, it would be done by now:)

But, as I think on it, there are lots of other projects I've been dabbling with that I could be more focused on.  I've looked at some earlier replies to this prompt, I realize I'm content to stay in my niche of the 19th and 20th centuries in Mid-Michigan as most of my activity.  Others can focus on early New England and Europe and it will be great to see the results of their research.  

There are several nearby cemeteries where I've taken request photos for Findagrave in the past that no one seems to be doing right now.  I just recently fulfilled a few easy ones and unexpectedly made contact with a cousin in Canada and another request was for the "other" grandparents of a first cousin.  Just connecting up all the collateral lines and their relatives in that one cemetery could take awhile!  And, since FAG conflicts are a major part of the "suggestions" I receive it's caused me to do some more research into death records and such to see what the problems are.  

Of course, there's lots to do in Wikitree to improve profiles.  This is the second year I've done the 52 week challenge and I was a "newbie" at the time I started so didn't have many family members' profiles on Wikitree.  As a result, I had to add a profile for the person I had chosen to fit the prompt and often an additional generation or so of their ancestors to connect them up to the tree.  I really need to go back and clean up and expand many of them so my 2018 52 week profiles are this week's answer.

Answer 8

Both my children are interested, but enough to pick up and carry on after me?

Of my three grandchildren .. only time will tell if any of them will care enough.

My one cousin has "done" genealogical "stuff" because of membership with the LDS, but some of his results were incorrect as they 100% relied on family stories and knowledge that was falsified by certain ancestors.

Of my other cousins, some are older than I am, but their younger generations have a couple who might be interested enough to carry on.

Answer 9

I have several hopes for the future:

1. To travel and explore areas where my ancestors came from, both the colonial areas in the US as well as abroad in England, Scotland and Russia.

2. To continue to better source and improve the documented lines in my family tree.

3. To gather enough information to write a story about one (or more than one) of my ancestral lines.

4. To complete a book that I've been working on for my mom showing her family tree.

5. To convince my son to take up the helm at some point in his future.

Answer 10

I only have one daughter and one grandson.  Not sure if either will find genealogy interesting.  I’ve had a lot of stuff passed down to me by my grandmother’s but did not really get interested till in my sixties so there is hope.  WikiTree is the big promise because I know that my work will be there for others to use even if my family never adds to it.  For my own future I would love to find hard evidence on my great grandfather Elias Hindman.  Currently Tennessee in the early 1800s seems to be a black hole.  Several branches dead end there.

Answer 11

I hope this year is to find the link between the different groups of Langridge's here on wikitree.

Also to add more to the family folders to show to other family members as not all are comfortable to view on the computer.

I have a number of branches that I hope to extend by encourage others to add to their family branches. Also hope to move further back in time as well as adding new generations to the tree.

Also want to explore the DNA side of the family but so far only three folk tested so must encourage more to do a test

Answer 12

I have a preservation group that preserves tombstones for families. We are just a year old but this coming spring I plan to get trained in resetting the stones by a fellow preservationist in the area. With this new training I will start to work on a cemetery that has MANY of my own family buried there. It will take the next few years for sure but we will get it done to honor our family history. I also plan to work on many more veterans graves to fix a clean as well. It will be a busy year for sure.