LakeCondo
Well-Known Member
From time to time I've worked on my family genealogy. Now is a good time to do so, as the 1940 US Census is indexed & available for free on ancestry.com.
I think I & other relatives have gone back about as far as we can reasonably go, so I've been finding descendants of various relatives. So much depends on the family you're dealing with. Smith, Jones etc are difficult, but regardless of the name, there always are more of them than you'd think, so keeping people straight is a problem, especially if people moved around a lot.
Today I came across some people I shouldn't have that problem with. Someone married into a Hoopengardner family & had a bunch of kids. A daughter married a Quackenbush. Normally I'd say that Quackenbush would be a name I wouldn't want to have, but I guess it's a step up from Hoopengardner.
I think I & other relatives have gone back about as far as we can reasonably go, so I've been finding descendants of various relatives. So much depends on the family you're dealing with. Smith, Jones etc are difficult, but regardless of the name, there always are more of them than you'd think, so keeping people straight is a problem, especially if people moved around a lot.
Today I came across some people I shouldn't have that problem with. Someone married into a Hoopengardner family & had a bunch of kids. A daughter married a Quackenbush. Normally I'd say that Quackenbush would be a name I wouldn't want to have, but I guess it's a step up from Hoopengardner.