FABulous Jack! What a delight. I especially like your observation about using its visual presence to spark conversations about family history with others. I've been kind of inspired by new tools out there to create virtual whiteboards for family trees and photos. They're cool and portable, but certainly don't have that power to dominate a room that something so beautifully hand made does... Bravo, dude!
What an incredible way to honor your family story! As a Duke alum and someone who works at Ancestry, I love the investment of time you put in to discover and now share your history.
I Love it! Keep it up Jack! I’ve traced my American roots to 1690 in Virginia and one branch dates back to the 16th Century Austria – so much fun! Wish we could time travel! Enjoy your opportunities at Duke- it is a very special place! Ironic, I have Palmer relatives from NC too :) -S. Tedder, MD (BS- Trinity ‘88, MD ‘92)
Thanks, Stephen! Wow, that is so impressive. Nice job! Oh man, every day I wish we could time travel, too. What a funny coincidence :) thanks for taking a look at my work here, Stephen!
Great work - I'm not surprised to hear you have looked for that - we have to face our pasts for sure - I have hope to hear that you have begun that work already.
Crazy thing only recently happened and it will offer you a "Degrees of Bacon" kind of project: Angela Davis - the Black Panther - just found out on the PBS Show Finding Your Roots - that she is related to your ancestor William Brewster.
Keep up the good work - shining light is always a good and sobering thing to do!
Thank you for checking it out, Margaret! Yes! I've found Ancestry to be incredibly useful over the years. Not only for documenting, but also for displaying, like you said. FamilySearch is a great site for both, too. Sometimes, FamilySearch has document images that Ancestry doesn't. And lastly, newspapers.com -- Ancestry's newspaper database is fantastic. Easy to use and filled with digitized newspapers spanning centuries. :)
Thanks for your comment and support of my work, Filbert. Yes, this is certainly a crucial topic. I haven't found any slave holders in my tree, which makes sense locationally. 3/4 sides of my grandparents' families immigrated from Europe during the late 1800s and settled in Connecticut decades after the Civil War. The 1/4 side came on the Mayflower and settled in Maine for hundreds of years. All the census records show no slaves. However, this certainly does not mean nobody owned slaves at any point, and I continue to search for that. But yes, as of now, I have not found a slave owner after a decade of research, to answer your question. Thank you again for your support.
Amazing. I only know my grandparents who were Armenian Genocide survivors and they passed when I was very young. I do not know any other family or family tree. You are so fortunate and I really really appreciate what you have done here and I am certain you will develop more. Best to you. Would like to hear all about the people, places, etc as well --- cheers
Thanks, Hermine! I appreciate your support and thank you for sharing. You are right - it is a privilege to have access to records and get to do this work, I am grateful. Please let me know if you ever might want some assistance in searching for your ancestors -- I would love to offer a helping hand if you wish to find out more about your tree. Best, Jack
Thanks, Teresa! It wasn't an accident -- I tried to measure out the boxes so it would fit :) Color codes aren't any more than me just feeling like a change, haha! That's so neat. Are you descended from the Alden/Mullins, Cooke, Warren, or Brewster lines? That's who my family comes from...
FABulous Jack! What a delight. I especially like your observation about using its visual presence to spark conversations about family history with others. I've been kind of inspired by new tools out there to create virtual whiteboards for family trees and photos. They're cool and portable, but certainly don't have that power to dominate a room that something so beautifully hand made does... Bravo, dude!
Thank you, Barbara. I really appreciate your kind words!
What an incredible way to honor your family story! As a Duke alum and someone who works at Ancestry, I love the investment of time you put in to discover and now share your history.
Thanks, Deb! I really appreciate it :)
I Love it! Keep it up Jack! I’ve traced my American roots to 1690 in Virginia and one branch dates back to the 16th Century Austria – so much fun! Wish we could time travel! Enjoy your opportunities at Duke- it is a very special place! Ironic, I have Palmer relatives from NC too :) -S. Tedder, MD (BS- Trinity ‘88, MD ‘92)
Thanks, Stephen! Wow, that is so impressive. Nice job! Oh man, every day I wish we could time travel, too. What a funny coincidence :) thanks for taking a look at my work here, Stephen!
Great work - I'm not surprised to hear you have looked for that - we have to face our pasts for sure - I have hope to hear that you have begun that work already.
Crazy thing only recently happened and it will offer you a "Degrees of Bacon" kind of project: Angela Davis - the Black Panther - just found out on the PBS Show Finding Your Roots - that she is related to your ancestor William Brewster.
Keep up the good work - shining light is always a good and sobering thing to do!
Thanks, Filbert! I appreciate your support and comments. Lots of work left to do, certainly.
I love that you created this visual and that you have all of this information about your own family. Thank you for sharing it with the community.
What software and other tools have you found most useful for documenting and displaying your genealogy?
Thank you for checking it out, Margaret! Yes! I've found Ancestry to be incredibly useful over the years. Not only for documenting, but also for displaying, like you said. FamilySearch is a great site for both, too. Sometimes, FamilySearch has document images that Ancestry doesn't. And lastly, newspapers.com -- Ancestry's newspaper database is fantastic. Easy to use and filled with digitized newspapers spanning centuries. :)
Wonderful work here - and obviously you are a fruit of that 11 generations.
I would be interested in seeing, within your family tree, the slave holders and numbers of slaves that each of your ancestors were and held.
Not to invoke any guilt but to recognize soberly the abilities of wealth gained by exploit that carried you all the way to Duke.
It is amazing work you've done.
Thanks for your comment and support of my work, Filbert. Yes, this is certainly a crucial topic. I haven't found any slave holders in my tree, which makes sense locationally. 3/4 sides of my grandparents' families immigrated from Europe during the late 1800s and settled in Connecticut decades after the Civil War. The 1/4 side came on the Mayflower and settled in Maine for hundreds of years. All the census records show no slaves. However, this certainly does not mean nobody owned slaves at any point, and I continue to search for that. But yes, as of now, I have not found a slave owner after a decade of research, to answer your question. Thank you again for your support.
I am looking forward to seeing your linking plan going from bottom up and the use symbols or perhaps dotted lines.
Thanks, Ted!
Amazing. I only know my grandparents who were Armenian Genocide survivors and they passed when I was very young. I do not know any other family or family tree. You are so fortunate and I really really appreciate what you have done here and I am certain you will develop more. Best to you. Would like to hear all about the people, places, etc as well --- cheers
Thanks, Hermine! I appreciate your support and thank you for sharing. You are right - it is a privilege to have access to records and get to do this work, I am grateful. Please let me know if you ever might want some assistance in searching for your ancestors -- I would love to offer a helping hand if you wish to find out more about your tree. Best, Jack
One of my favorite videos of yours of all time!
Thanks, Dad!
Thanks, Teresa! It wasn't an accident -- I tried to measure out the boxes so it would fit :) Color codes aren't any more than me just feeling like a change, haha! That's so neat. Are you descended from the Alden/Mullins, Cooke, Warren, or Brewster lines? That's who my family comes from...