14 April 2009

Family Tree

I picked up the genealogy project again and have had great success. Using DAR tools, it's much easier to organize lineages but it doesn't leave much room for who these people were. Fortunately, census records have details about occupations and relocations and people connected to the family (i.e. workers who lived on the farms). A somehow related individual by the name of Wilbur L. King wrote a book over 50 years ago that deals with the original Kings (Konigs) who immigrated here which I ordered and should arrive in a few weeks. I hope that fills in the personal details of these names and can give some interesting facts about the family. I also think I'm going to order a copy of the most recent DAR application that names Jacob King as the patriot ancestor so I can use that in my application. It's the documentation portion that takes the most time. But at least I'm in Pennsylvania now and if a need arises to actually visit any archives, I can do so fairly easily. Mom has to decide on what kind of format she wants this to take though. Hopefully it'll be an informationally dense and interesting look at the King family.

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