Oh yes. When I first started out, I made a lot of mistakes and had to do quite a bit of backtracking.
It helped that my grandmother had quite a bit of family history and geneaology stuff already. I can follow her paternal line to the 15th Great Grandfather on the paternal line, and the 7th GreatGrandfather on hhe maternal line.
My husband's paternal line is pure German and I'm at a dead end on that, at his 2x Great Grandfather.}:/ It's as if they didn't exist before his Great Grandfather immigrated to here.
My father's birth father's paternal line I can follow back to my 5th Great Grandfather. His maternal line to my 3rd Great Grandfather. His birth mother's line, all the way back to the 9th Great Grandfather on the paternal side and 3rd Great Grandfather on the maternal line. His adoptive parents lines aren't much better. Heh.
Now, my birth mom's paternal line, well, I can follow them back all the way to 8th GreatGrandfather( LOTS of Pennocks, Gumaers, Spicers, Trowbridges, etc.) on the paternal line and only the 5th Great Grandfather on the maternal line.
For me, it helps that I have a cousin who's been doing this a lot longer than me and could give me alot of info, particularly about my dad's birth parents, since he'd already done the work.}:)
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Date: 2013-05-06 05:32 pm (UTC)It helped that my grandmother had quite a bit of family history and geneaology stuff already. I can follow her paternal line to the 15th Great Grandfather on the paternal line, and the 7th GreatGrandfather on hhe maternal line.
My husband's paternal line is pure German and I'm at a dead end on that, at his 2x Great Grandfather.}:/ It's as if they didn't exist before his Great Grandfather immigrated to here.
My father's birth father's paternal line I can follow back to my 5th Great Grandfather. His maternal line to my 3rd Great Grandfather. His birth mother's line, all the way back to the 9th Great Grandfather on the paternal side and 3rd Great Grandfather on the maternal line. His adoptive parents lines aren't much better. Heh.
Now, my birth mom's paternal line, well, I can follow them back all the way to 8th GreatGrandfather( LOTS of Pennocks, Gumaers, Spicers, Trowbridges, etc.) on the paternal line and only the 5th Great Grandfather on the maternal line.
For me, it helps that I have a cousin who's been doing this a lot longer than me and could give me alot of info, particularly about my dad's birth parents, since he'd already done the work.}:)