I have been interested in our family genealogy for quite sometime. I have researched much family information and I would like to see it preserved. This Find A Grave site is a very good form of attaching bios or photos of our loved ones as a memorial to our families. When preserved, our families and future families will be able to view their family history. The ability to link parents with children and siblings is valuable for preserving family history. Thank you find a grave for your role in preserving family history.

My three-times great grandparents (32) which goes back 6 generations include the following surnames: Meyers (German), Brennan (Irish), Buck (German), Becker (Dutch), Coello (Italian), Corrigan (Irish), Galubinski (Polish), Ryan (Norwegian), Marchiando (Italian), Smith (Scotch), Keenan (Irish), Coppes (Dutch), Stelter (Polish), Roberts (English), Amundson (Norwegian), Hanley (Irish), McNearney (Irish), Sullivan (Irish), Leger (Italian), Failey (Irish), McNally (Irish), Camerlo (Italian), Laux (German), Hite (English), McNeal (Irish), Magoon (Scotch), Fugesdotter (Norwegian), Diebels (Dutch), Janssen (Dutch) and Stark (Polish).

Like many Americans, about my 3rd and 4th generation (1850s) of family past migrated from Europe: Beckers, Diebels, Janssen and Coppe's from Holland; Gulabinski's from Prussia; Meyers and Laux from Germany, Brennan's, Hanley's, McNearney's, Corrigan's, Keenan's, Sullivans', McNally's and Failey's from Ireland; Coello's, Marchiando's, Camerlo's, Leger's and Peretti's from Italy; Ryan's, Fugesdotter's and Amundson's from Norway, Stelters' and Stark's from Poland.

It is incredible to think that we start with our 2 parents and our 4 grandparents and then it goes to our 8 great grandparents; numbers then double for each additional generation; When we get back to our 8x great grandparents, we have 1,024 and I unfortunately know very little of their names. At my 13x great grandparents level, I have found the names of only 16 of a potential 32,768 13x great grandparents.

My information becomes pretty thin when I get looking for the 5th to the 10th generations past (1600s). I know that some of my early family lived in America and Canada from the 1600s to the early 1800s. Those families include the following surnames: Buck, McNeil, Roberts, Magoon, Cooley, Smith, Jay, Hite and Jones families. Joseph and Elizabeth Andrews, Deacon John Leavitt and wife Mary and the John Gannett family all lived in the area of Plymouth, Massachusetts in the 1670s. The Gilmans, Wadleighs, Blakes, Magoons, Leavitts, Dunshees, McNeills all lived in and around Exeter, New Hampshire.

Special thanks to all of you that research and preserve family history. It is always exciting to me to uncover another set of found and now known to me great, great, great, etc. grandparents.