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Thursday, August 28, 2014
Return to Gen-Sanity
With the disappointing and confusing results of my DNA test, I lost enthusiasm for genealogy for a while. When I looked back at the results a few weeks ago I found it entirely different. Now it says:
Carl emigrated first to England, then, 6 years later, to the US through Canada. Mary Ann emigrated to the US through Canada at the same time and they immediately came to Adrian, Michigan and were married. I have their "return of marriage" papers.
Carl (now changed to Charles Anderson) was 26 and Mary Ann, 22. I believe the photos above were taken around the time of their marriage. The date of wedding was given as November 12, 1874.
Europe 100%
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Great Britain 41%
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Europe West 38%
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Scandinavia 8%
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Trace Regions 5%Europe East 8%
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Italy/Greece 2%
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Ireland 2%
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Finland/Northwest Russia < 1%
Carl (now changed to Charles Anderson) was 26 and Mary Ann, 22. I believe the photos above were taken around the time of their marriage. The date of wedding was given as November 12, 1874.
I also have Carl/Charles' papers applying, through his church to emigrate from Sweden. It has a date that I can read as 1848 3/10 which must have been his birth date and matches with the age at the time of his marriage. I still need to find a translator for this "old" Swedish language.
All-in-all, I was pretty happy with my findings. Now I also just found a British census from when Mary Ann was 9 and in England. The parents names match information I was given by my grandmother. It gives Mary Ann's birth place and place of residence at age 9 as Bristol, England, not Hereford, as I had been told. We had a book about Hereford that had passed down from my grandfather. It was just word of mouth that she was born in Hereford. Now I know better.
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