About My Family

To start off the blog, I thought I'd post a little background on my own ancestry.  My parents families have by and large been in the US since they immigrated.  They are also mainly Catholic on both sides.  And they each are roughly 2/3's German/French (from the Rhine River area mainly), 1/3 British Isles.  But that's where the similarities generally end.

My mother's family is comprised of 100% post-1845 (and pre-1895) immigrants to the US.  My father on the other hand is descended from Colonial immigrants up to immigrants who came in 1882.  My mother's family is centered in Erie County, PA, while my father's was in Cambria County, PA.  My mother's were mainly train conductors and laborers, while my father's ancestors were coal miners and farmers.

As I said, both of my parents have by-and-large mainly Catholic ancestors.  However, my mother has a pair of Lutheran great-great grandparents from Germany who converted upon immigration, and my father has some Presbyterians, Lutherans, Quakers, and a number of the Church of the Brethren.

I'll delve more into some of their more "colorful" ancestors in this blog in later posts.  But for now, I'd love to hear a bit about your families.  I've learned many things through genealogy, one being that there is no such thing as a "boring ancestry".  And if you think you have one, well you just haven't dug deep enough yet ;)

-Katie