Doctor Grandma

I am blown away. Signed up to ancestry.com and started my summer project of researching the family tree. It is 3:15am! I am in awe of what I have found in the past few hours. Census records, death dates, some name changes, siblings of my grandfather. I learned my great-grandfather Agnew’s wife was 18 years his junior, and she had 6 children, 5 of whom lived, one of whom was my grandfather and he had a twin sister. Her name was Myrtle and according to the census records, she had a baby boy at age 14 and named him after her father. Family history is really weird.

James Agnew, my great-grandfather, said in the 1880 census that both his parents were born in England. Then in the1900 census he reported that his father was born in Virginia and his mother in Germany! What was he doing, being a disgruntled old man and making up stories? I know nothing of his parents– not their names, nothing. This doesn’t help. Oh, I’m going to enjoy this search!

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