Reply #14: don't have any old photos earlier than say 1925 or so

[yellowdogintexas]

but I do have a geneology on my dad's mother's family, the line of descent from her mother.

The common ancestor came to North Carolina from England in early 1700's
and the line is traced down from him in this geneology. The family eventually migrated to Middle Tennessee and my great grandparents came to Kentucky sometime in the early 20th century..my grandmother was born in 1902 and was born in Tennessee, but they came to KY when she was pretty young.

So they go back pretty far. Don't know as much about any of the rest of my family..my mom's father's family had been in Kentucky since early 1800's, andprobably came from Virginia


Since I am from Kentucky, right on the Tennessee border and to my knowledge no one in my family was of any of the 19th century immigration waves, so I imagine most of them have descended from early English/Irish/Scotch settlers in the 1700's through early 1800's, starting out in Virginia or North Carolina.

Mostly farmers, except one of my great grand fathers was a sheriff and another was a blacksmith. I know they went through hard times and the Depression...my great grandmother used to make jelly fromthe cores and peels of the apples that were left after she made preserves from the actualy fruit. Probably the pears too. I have old quilts made from little scraps of fabric; no pattern or anything, and she could tell you exactly which dress or item each little scrap came from too.

i wish I had pictures, but many were lost in a fire several years ago.