* I totally forgot to add the above picture when I did this post. That is my Family History Tub that I have to cart around with me whenever I am working on it. That is the family history center in the background. I went from knowing nothing to a tub full in a matter of months. Pretty rockin!
The pictures on the left are of me finally deciding to go back to the family history center to see if I could get some help with some overseas ancestors. Help was not what I was going to get on this day. There were too many people there already and quite the line to talk to the expert of all experts, Pat. I did manage to weasel my way into a question on how to find a passenger log and some advice about how to go about my overseas stuff. I need to look in Germany and Russia for some ancestors and I don't have access to those records without paying big bucks to do it. I got a few tips to try before I cough up the money and how to find where my ancestors would have come into the americas.
When I got back home I tried to find my Mom's Grandfather, David Wagner who came over from Russia in 1913. I actually found the ship. I have a picture of it with all the specs like: it was steam, 14.5 knots, 3,830 passengers, it had one funnel and six mats, a steel hull and four decks. He departed in the port of Hamburg on the President Grant as an 18 year old with. He had been living in Nasielce, Russia and was single when he boarded the ship. He arrived at Ellis Island on July 9, 1913. I need to talk with my Mom to see if she remembers anything about his wife's maiden name or their parents names. I am at a dead end. I know that his wife Elizabeth was also from Russia and she came over the same year, but I couldn't find her on the passenger list so she must have come on a different ship or a different time. Without her maiden name there is no way to find her family. I have searched everywhere for a marriage license for the 2 of them and can't find it. It will be a gold mine when I do. So that was a fun little adventure that I went on. I have many, many more of those.
The 2 pictures on the right were from our FHE lesson last night. We hooked up the laptop to the tv and Jared gave Nate and the 2 little ones a lesson in genealogy. Technology is so much fun. We also finally hooked Nathan's side of the family up to my tree. The pain is that even though Nate has an account and Emma and Jared do as well, the information doesn't link up until you come to a deceased ancestor. So we put in all the information so his line would link up to mine. It is pretty cool to see my line now that I have done so much work and Nate's is now attached.
When I am finished writing out my journey I will probably get it published by a company like the one that does my blog for posterity.
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