Friday, January 5, 2018

Genealogy: Where I am January 2018

Thanks to Amy Johnson Crow and her  "52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge!," I am trying to start keeping this blog up to date again.
  1. Project 1 -- Find out with proof the names of the parents of Thomas Hunt Sr. and wife Lucy.
  2. Project 1.5 -- Trace backwards our McFarland ancestry. (With the direction, energy, and help of cousins Bill and Susan Kromer Hunt and researchers to whom they introduced me in recent years, there is a DNA confirmation of the Thomas Hunt ancestral tale that we were once McFarlands (McFarlins, MacFarlanes, etc) linking us to other researchers and 1700-1800's Orange County, North Carolina McFarland families.)
  3. Project 2 -- Over the years since publishing my Hunt (2002), Moody (2007), and Wingate (2005) family histories, I have accumulated data additions, corrections, and knowledge of  cousins and research unknown to me before. I will share as much of that as I can on Researching Roots.
  4. Project 3 -- Write as much as I can of the families of Joseph and Annie Fears Hunt and Deason and Ozie Mae Hunt using quotations, narrative, and photos.
  5. Project 4 -- Write as much as I can of my own recollections of my life with Martha, family, career, and friends.
Note: Check the blog post of January 2016 of the same name as this. You will see that I have yet to make much progress on some of these (now slightly altered) goals from that year. I hope to keep my nose to the grindstone a bit better in 2018.