Genealogy

I never intended to make genealogy a serious hobby. All I remember about it during my childhood is being dragged through endless cemeteries in Ohio and Massachusetts during summer vacation while Mom made tombstone rubbings. It was only after I had to clean out the parent's house in 1998 that I realized she had spent half her life compiling an extensively-researched family tree. As the sole surviving child, it was my responsibility to carry on her work.

Fortunately, I don't have to subject my children to the same traumas I went through. The Internet happened sometime between my childhood and my inheritance, meaning that the only casualty resulting from my research is the phone line. In one year, I was able to add as many people to the family genealogy as my mother had in over three decades of research.

A quick & dirty summary of the family tree is as follows:

	Paternal	Maternal
Ges	The direct line of descent goes all the way back to the first Puritan settlers of New England in the 17th century, combined with a recent infusion of Irish-Canadian blood. Some of the families marrying into the direct line can be traced into late 15th century England.	A mishmash of 19th century Welsh and Scottish immigration, combined with descendants of three families that first came to America on the Mayflower
Devonna	Her Rogers ancestry suddenly appears in Preble County, OH around 1812. The various descendants of German immigrants marrying into this line through the 19th century can be traced back to the 1700's.	The only thing we know for sure is that they came from the South. Parts can be traced back to Maryland in the late 17th century, but that's the best we can do for now.

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An attempt at impartial research concerning both Clan Keith and my family's folklore Some speculation about the first Seger to come to America	Clan Keith Society