Resurrecting My Revolutionary Soldier
A dozen years after my aunt's stories about her grandmother's interest in the D.A.R. and I've actually stumbled upon that long lost ancestral connection--Hendrick Fosmire of New York. That line is not one I was looking through, Hendrick being my great grandmother's grandmother's great grandfather. (Got that?;-))
Laura Fosmire was just about the only relative I hadn't traced back through because I knew almost nothing about her except that she was my third great grandmother's mother.
Anyway, the point is I would have never gotten to Hendrick (and been able to prove it) if it weren't for posting the family tree as far as I could go and then being contacted by descendents of my great grandmother's aunts who found some common names in it. As I've said before, my brother and I are the last of our line. Our immediate family was very small--my brother and I, my father and two sibs, my mother and one; nine cousins that I knew about and that's it. Imagine finding I have a whole web of relatives spanning the country and even the globe. (Talk about invigorating a search!)
Now I'm anxious to learn even more, explore the New England Genealogical Society for information on Hendrick and his immediate family, figure out just why and how his descendents migrated to Michigan and elsewhere.
So, I encourage you to post your information, to answer inquiries as best you can. You never know when one will lead you right through a wall you've faced for years.
