For all that are out here, and out there

Greetings All and to all I pray that you are basking in the peace and love of the Lord.
I am again making a call for information,  this time I am going to make a different offer. I will share what I have and I ask that you share what you can.

I will send out a couple of emails with reports this weekend, if you could do me two favors. First let me know that you have gotten this and then, look it over and share what you can. Help me fill in the holes. Call me on what I might have wrong.

Peace

David

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.

the tree

For those that have missed a this and that, I am in the process of collecting names and looking for folks that are in our heritage, our past. Recently I stumbled across the ship's manifest for the ship that

grandmother Jones's mother and father arrived on, I have the census record for 1920, showing the family of William and Trisilda Gibbs, along with Olga (who by the way was born in Cuba), Edith and Mary(gramda for the rest of us). I have these and some other documents stored in a central location on the internet so that they can be reviewed by more than just me.

Again I put out the call, please help with any information that may provide some insight into where and which places folks lived. I am still looking for when and where Grampop came ashore here. And even more curious is who his father and grandfather are.

For my brood, I found some interesting stuff about the Williams and Roberts clans, and I am looking in Missouri for more about Emmanuel. Some specifics I will not put here, but I will publish generalities and always a request for help.

The program that I am using is called gramps, it is an open source program that runs mainly on Linux, however there is a version that will run on windows. I use this program, because it has a good looking output and it is free.

So here is the call out, please if you can, help me out, call me on my cell, I think that everyone has the number, I need birthdates for about a dozen of you living folks, some dates for folks that are here someplace in the tree and more names, call me and talk with me, educate me, help me, help us.

Family Tree

Good Evening, I am writing this in the middle of ignoring some movie that Antoinette picked out with the thought that it was going to be fun to watch. Anyway, I am in the process of assembling a family tree, I have about three generations of Jones's and two of the Shade's and only one of several odds and ends, of some others of folks that help round out our equation. I have been contacting several folks here and there with questions regarding family members. I would like to have something substantial by July. I am also willing to share the output of what I have with everyone in an effort to make this project better.

In this program we have the ability to capture and record significant events in our lives, I am looking into what else can be shoe horned into this program in the name of multimedia.

This is the program that I am using, it runs very well under Linux, which is my primary operating system, it will run under Windows. Gramps genealogical research software.

Please feel free to email me if you have any questions, comments, suggestions.

Ideas and things

By now, some of you have seen this and have thoughtfully sent a comment or two my way, please, please let everyone know about this site. We can use it like this for a while, at least until our needs and technology changes again. I can put pictures up here, thats actually no big deal, we can post some video material and I can link to other sites in order to share and collaborate with one another. By the way spread the word.