There's a story to this page

If you're an ancestry buff you can relate.

Out of the blue a descendant of a great great grandparent

was apparently left off my tree and a DNA

match brought this omission to a cousin of mine.

He was baffled.

As I was.

And then had a hand's on deck with the 

other family historians or anyone in the family

that actually remembered him.

But, at some point I said hmmm....because I remembered

Charles and his family would come to the family

reunions (held around father's day) and

I remember as kid visiting Uncle Charles in NJ.

Well....Charles was not on my tree, not a footnote not even a question mark.

In my defense, he was not well-known amongst the 

secret keepers. Not that he was a secret, but

he never appears in any of the federal census showing

Nils & Mathilda as parents.

However, when I was invited to the "whistleblowers" tree

I noted that she had a 1905 NJ State Census that

was proof Charles was the first born in the family.

Later there are census when he was older and in my defense

those census were not available when I was on ancestry like

8-9 years ago and I haven't checked since.

Oh it's not for lack of ancestry trying.

Even though I'm not a paying member I can still acess my tree

and they tease me by keeping me updated on all the 

flapping leaves on my tree, to entice me back.

Well, I caved and joined because now my tree needed updating 

and while I was at it, I took care of the 99 waving leaves.

Very interesting, although I do find the ancestry

process somewhat cumbersome. 

But alas, my tree was up-to-date for about 30 minutes. 

LOL.

So I made this page that'll eventually get into the "album" or

actually just have an album of its own, but the other

2-3 albums go back 12 generations on some - although

something happened to my tree that I neglected and some/a lot

of what I had in there is gone.

Anyway I can't wait to do more, because alas, I have more info.

Sigh.

Tim Holtz fussy cut papers collage papers and distressed them and a tag, stamping, there

is journaling on the front and back, and Prima.