My Most
Exciting Genealogy Research Find by Susi Pentico
Alas I have several over the years. This is on Dad’s side
JONES
Of course those whom attended our Research Meeting in July
heard about one that my Dad started when we finally on our own in Northern
California.
Dad’s parents had split, he was looking for his father in
Wyoming and his Uncle in Northern CA.
We found his Dad when I was between Freshman and Sophmore
year of High School in Casper, Wyoming working as a shepherder when his health would permit it.
The day before our research meeting the family he was
hunting for contacted me, though his father was gone, it was a terrific feeling
to have found family my Dad remembered from when small.
You see Dad remembered playing marbles with his cousins on
the dirt floor of a grocery store in Waterloo, Ia. The families split,
Dad knew his Uncle had come to California and his Dad he last heard was somewhere between Colorado, Montana and
Wyoming. The two boys were the youngest of the
Grandparents sons.
Dad was 8 when his father left finally due to many
reasons. Packages came from his
father to Dad and his siblings but the items were given away in spite. Dad was the oldest. He remembered many things and I watched
the results when it was presented years later.
It is sad when religion can cause people to get twisted
minds and ideas. Thankfully
The family was mended by Dad, prior to everyone’s (Siblings) death. But for years it was a sad
event for a Father’s Day or Mother’s Day activity. Amongst his siblings and
later learning also between his Uncle’s and Aunts.
Things we did
to have answers.
1 Many road trips reading mail boxes,
2 Many phone calls to JONES in Northern Ca
3 Trips to Wyoming to try to find Grandad, side
bar saw places I probably would not have.
Found Grandad Jones when I was in High School by a friend of
Dad’s that he had worked with in Wyoming.
5 Grandad came to visit us in California.
6 We
continued looking for Uncle Monte.
7 Found connecting descendants via, calls, letters, posts, and
persistence.
Family finally reached back to us., After Dad’s death.
9 Their lives had been no better than Dad’s.
1 The Split in family was over who was the
wealthiest and had the most.
1 Utterly unbelievable but so very true.
1 One side supposedly owned a bank the other owned
quality horses and walnut groves and sold the trees for gun stocks. I know that the horses and walnut is true, Thought the other raised wheat and grains but may have also been in banking at one point. Need more research on him, he disappeared.
1 The great Grandmom’s got in, as a
distant cousin said, A Pissing
contest and it affected every child in the family., for two and some 3
generations of family. The men were already gone or deceased.
When your parent looks as hard as mine did to find family he
knew he had, it becomes a life making mark to break the barrier. His brother my Uncle shared many
more interesting tidbits about their life when in Wyoming, since I lived near him and took care of his wives and himself in their end times.
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