It may be time for my biweekly count, but I haven't really done much to contribute to progress on my own trees lately. Reason: I've spent the last two weeks working on a floating tree for my paternal grandmother's Laskowski kin—despite not knowing exactly how they relate—and focusing on a "giving back" project to build yet more floating trees, this time on eligible ancestors for our local First Families program.
So how did progress on my own trees fare? Well, only fifty one were added to my tree, and sixty to my in-laws' tree—the latter due only to work on a DNA match I've been pursuing for weeks now. Still, my in-laws' tree now has 37,027 documented ancestors plus collateral lines—thanks to the never-ending pursuit of DNA cousins. And my own tree currently has 38,673 individuals, if you include all the Laskowskis floating out there in genealogical outer space.
Granted, there have been several added to the tree related to John Hutchins, that early settler we've been discussing in our county who came to California from Canada via the Great Plains and Iowa. Those new discoveries in the Hutchins and Nevin families, however, haven't been added to either of my family trees, nor will the ones we meet in the next couple weeks in this First Families year-end wrap up of my Twelve Most Wanted project.
While John Hutchins, Nathan Nevin and others in their related lines became fairly well-known names, locally, in their time, there are others who are eligible for our local First Families program who may simply have been humble farmers in this fertile valley, one hundred years ago or more—or people with unfortunate stories whose itinerant life eventually led them to our county. We'll take some time next week to explore a few of those stories.
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