New Discoveries

Greetings all, Last night proved to be an exceptional night in my quest to unearth family ties, roots, branches, shoots, and what not. In doing some of this research, I discovered two long never known about relatives, and while there may need to be some more verification in the offing, I have added two more souls in the Gibbs branch of the Jones tree. My(Our) Great-Grandfather William and Great-Grandmother Trichilda (they have managed to butcher this fine lady's name so often, the only way I can figure out what is what is to look at the dates. I have her listed as Trischilda, Prischilda and Friscilda, if I see anything else I am afraid that my head is going to explode. Not trying to digress, they had a little boy in 1911, he did not make it to his first birthday, passing from this earth a few weeks shy of the date. At the other end of the branch, I have found an approximate date of birth for Great-Grandmother Trichilda's parents, which would make them the Great-Great Grandparents of our distinguished crew. They appear to have been born in the British West Indies, around the 1840s. Which would make them free people for those that are paying attention to all that, the British found enslaving folks so distasteful, that they started making all of those black folk go free, no more enslavement, plus they were also seriously outnumbered in the islands, so it only made sense. And the Irish were no help to them either, as they treated the Irish almost as badly as we were in many cases. The other discovery, I need someone to help me verify this, our Great Aunt, the fine lady that was born in Cuba, well she passed away before any of our current brood was around, including Grandmother. It turns out that she was married to a young man by the name of Romain, (his first name is in my database which is not running as I am doing this typing.

And for the other folks that have names in my database, for the record, I am up to 160 or 170 in the pond, I am still looking for surnames for a bunch of folks and I would like to find a set of parents for at least one cousin. That's all for now.