Where GenTales is Rooted - Video

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Hi, I'm Alicia. Welcome to GenTales, where genealogy meets history.

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Hi, I'm trying something new. Would be a video post about once a month, probably, if this works out.

I'm a little bit technologically challenged. I take after my mother. She will admit that.

Anyway, I'm hoping to bring a little bit more interaction to GenTales and maybe a little bit more oomph to the stories.

I think a good place to start is to introduce myself because it's hard to tell where a family tree comes from or goes to without understanding where it's rooted.

I have written before about my grandparents. And so you have a little bit of an idea about how my lines really kind of came from different places.

I was born in Indiana in the same town my father was born in, and that's where it ends.

My paternal line is actually from Floyd County, Kentucky, around Prestonsburg. There's a lot of Praters. They had been in Kentucky for quite some time, immigrating over from North Carolina, some of their ancestors.

I've written before about the Melungeons, the tri-racial variant that possibly involves Native American tribes, maybe some far west Europeans.

And then they also go up into the Colonial territories, their ancestors. So they may pre-date the European settlement of the New World, or they may not.

We haven't quite determined that yet, but my father's lines are pretty rooted here and in England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland.

On my mother's side, my mother's actually from the Bronx. Her and three of her four sisters were born in New York, though none of the family is actually from New York.

My grandmother, her family was from Iowa, England, Pennsylvania, that sort of area, movement, the immigration.

But she was born in Florida because her parents had decided to relocate there and then things didn't go right. And so she went back to Iowa.

My grandfather, his parents were Volga Germans. So they, he was a first generation American, his parents immigrated here separately as far as we know, and then got married in Michigan, lived in Wisconsin, and then he grew up in Florida.

And the speculation is that my grandparents' families owned land in the same area of Florida. And that's how they met.

Actually, he was married to my great aunt first and that's how they met. But then they relocated to New York during his first marriage. And then my grandmother joined him and Aunt Elsie ultimately went back to Iowa.

And then they moved to the city, where four of their five children were born.

Grandma was, on her father's side, a first generation American, but her line, the Lincolns, go back to 1630s in Massachusetts. And I'm currently working on the Lincoln lineage with all our cousins.

I've written a little bit about that and the second revision, the second draft, is going a little bit smoother now that I'm through working through some of the new records I found.

But yeah, so that's where my lines are. That's where it meets with me.

I don't have any children or blood nieces, nephews. So it ends with me, unfortunately, I guess. And so I do this for everyone else who's looking to fill in holes, who's looking at gaps, who wants to know who their cousins are, who their parents’ grandparents were.

And I'm starting to branch that out so that it's accessible to everyone.

If you have any suggestions. If you find yourself possibly tacked on to one of my lines and you're questioning it, please let me know in the comments or send me a private message and I would be happy to provide you with any research I currently have on them or do a quick look and see if I can't tack them onto one of my lines so you know where to look more.

I do have my general lineage in two volumes. You can read it, the ebook, for free on Kindle Unlimited, or you can order the ebook or the paperback.

They are rather large 400 and this, this one's, oh, it's going to blur out on me. Um, 400 to 600 page lineages.

And then I have a Prater lineage that I pulled out and that's actually on Lulu and, various ebook providers, rather than Amazon.

And I'm currently working on the Lincoln lineage.

So if you have questions, I've done a lot of research and I'm willing to do more.

So let me know.