Annie, How great to have made a family connection and it certainly proved the worth of investigating maternal lines. However, if the exercise is done correctly, it will take you far, far away from your main families. Picture a pedigree chart that has run amok. By the time you get to the 12th generation, working ''womb to womb", you will have a greatly expanded family tree. This is not investigating maternal lines as we usually do it - wife of father and her extended family, wife of grandfather and her lines etc. etc. It is a whole new way of investigating a family for most of us. The likelihood that it will break down brickwalls in your main families is very small but it is a barrel of fun and will introduce you to names, families and history you never imagined were in your family tree. And as an exercise in researching other areas it can't be beat! Here's mine: Georgette Anderson 1921, Quebec Florida Tremblay 1885 Alphonsine Audet 1861 Emilie Hebert 1815 (born at the end of the War of 1812) Catherine Fournier 1792 Veronique Robert 1759 (where was she when Wolfe beat the hell out of Montcalm and changed history?) Veronique Gauthier 1737 Veronique Laporte 1719 Madeleine Viger 1679 Catherine Moitie 1649, France (the surprise person in my family tree, had a child by a man who wasn't her husband, oops) Francoise Langevin 1626 I'd bet some of the listers have even more interesting names and places! Pam

My maternal line is not connected to Simcoe Co., but here it is: Pearl Lorraine Dayes, 1945 (Bowmanville, Ontario)--mother Mabel Pearl Elford, 1909-2002 (Cartwright Twp., Durham Co., Ontario)--grandmother Susannah Armstrong, 1866-1936 (Cartwright Twp., Durham Co., Canada West)--great-grandmother Sarah Evans, 1838-1929 (Magheraculmoney, Co. Fermanagh, Ireland)--great-great-grandmother Christiana Johnston, c1811-c1868 (Co. Fermanagh, Ireland)--great-great-great-grandmother Christiana ?, c1782-bet. 1861-1871 (Ireland)--great-great-great-great-grandmother Unfortunately, due to the nature of Irish records/research, this is as far as I have been able to go. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pam Tessier" <pamtessier@sympatico.ca> To: "Simcoe List" <can-ont-simcoe@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 31, 2010 8:15 AM Subject: [CAN-ONT-SIMCOE] genealgocial exercise > Annie, > > How great to have made a family connection and it certainly proved the > worth of investigating maternal lines. > > However, if the exercise is done correctly, it will take you far, far > away from your main families. Picture a pedigree chart that has run > amok. By the time you get to the 12th generation, working ''womb to > womb", you will have a greatly expanded family tree. This is not > investigating maternal lines as we usually do it - wife of father and > her extended family, wife of grandfather and her lines etc. etc. It is a > whole new way of investigating a family for most of us. > The likelihood that it will break down brickwalls in your main families > is very small but it is a barrel of fun and will introduce you to names, > families and history you never imagined were in your family tree. > And as an exercise in researching other areas it can't be beat! > > Here's mine: > Georgette Anderson 1921, Quebec > Florida Tremblay 1885 > Alphonsine Audet 1861 > Emilie Hebert 1815 (born at the end of the War of 1812) > Catherine Fournier 1792 > Veronique Robert 1759 (where was she when Wolfe beat the hell out of > Montcalm and changed history?) > Veronique Gauthier 1737 > Veronique Laporte 1719 > Madeleine Viger 1679 > Catherine Moitie 1649, France (the surprise person in my family tree, > had a child by a man who wasn't her husband, oops) > Francoise Langevin 1626 > > I'd bet some of the listers have even more interesting names and places! > > Pam > ***************** > Ten People All Genealogists Should Follow On Twitter: http://tr.im/hBAy > > Simcoe Co. GenWeb at http://www.waynecook.com/simcoe.shtml > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CAN-ONT-SIMCOE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message