I am having a series of quick breakthroughs on family history, to the extent that I cannot even keep up with it! It is jumping ahead at light speed. I have no doubt that Aunt Lucille is helping from the next world, since she just got there. I also feel certain that eventually, all the family lines will be able to be traced back to their origins. It is so exciting to put the pieces together.
On my husband’s side, through his grandmother Julia (Morgan) Black, “Vansandt Morgan” was traced thru his mother’s line to the American Revolution & beyond. So my daughters can now join the D.A.R. organization (not that they would ever want to).
Immigrant on the Vansandt family line was: Gerrit Stoffelse Van Sandt, married to Lysbeth Gerretze, immigrated 1651 to New York. That’s a very early immigration, folks.
Going back to the John Morgan who married Dolly Haniford, the Haniford side, we now know, came to America from Cork County, Ireland, in 1853, Thomas Haniford (sp. Hanaford) placed an ad in a Boston newspaper searching for his brother, Timothy, who had immigrated a year earlier with 3 sons.
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