--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
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>
>
> In a message dated 6/8/06
12:45:36 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> Neat! Did the land stay in your family?
>
> Where did
you find all this out? Most people in the U.S.
> know bupkes about their
ancestors.
>
>
>
>
> I don't really know if
family still owns it or not. He had six
sons and the
> one I'm
related to eventually moved to Snowhill Maryland and some
generations
> later migrated to Kentucky. A cousin of mine in Kentucky who is a
retired
> judge had done some research and put me on the right
trail. I
started looking
> up censes in Snowhill Maryland and
eventually traced the family
generation by
> generation back to
Ambrose. I actually found a lot of information
on him and
> his
family. Some genealogist had written up a report about him
much of which
> I just passed on. I also went back another generation and found
his father,
> William Dixon who was born in 1599 in London and his
mother
Katherine Barkley.
> Ambrose had three other brothers and a
sister, Elizabeth, who also
came to
> the new world. Eventually I
would love to go check out Snowhill
Maryland and
> the place where
Ambrose settled, the name of the County escapes me
now. A lot
> of
this stuff can be found on Ancestory.com and some other
genealogical
> sites.
Well, it's nifty to be able to find that much
out.
My late mother was heavily into our family's genealogy
and did
all kinds of research, intending to write it
all up one day, but she never
got around to it, and her
results exist only in reams and reams of
scribbled
notes, clippings, old letters, photocopies of stuff
from
libraries, in near-total chaos. Shame to have it
all go to waste, but my
sister and I simply don't have
enough interest to try to sort it all out.
So we just
remember little bits and pieces of the stories she'd
tell us
from time to time about her latest
discoveri
