Flo and Friends by Jenny Campbell for June 14, 2024

And some dead branches. . . . . .

I did that, got back to 1625 on one branch, 1576 on another. The 1625 branch fled to France then to New York, the 1576 branch emigrated to Deleware in 1789 from Alsace-Lorraine.

And, possibly, a touch of root rot.

I started working on my family tree on my mother’s side – starting with my grand patents and working towards the present. I got thru my first cousins grandchildren and ran out of stream. My aunt (mother’s oldest sister) had been working from the same point going in the opposite direction. She actually got to travel to Norway and meet distant relatives and look up old records. She got as far back as the 1700s, but couldn’t get further as our family were itinerant farmers and took the name of the farm they worked on so record keeping was not so great back then. We did find one famous relative from the late 1800s though.

..Tina’s not right in the head, is she..

I found a missing cousin and solved the mystery of his father’s disappearance using ancestry dot com DNA

We had a Messinger reunion years ago, my cousin, the family historian identified 500 cousins, 150 showed up. My grandfather John, was one of 9 children, same with great grand father, one of 9

The bad apples are what make the tree so interesting.

Also some fruits.