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Hi

I just noticed your group. I love genealogy, although mine gets quite frustrating because it seems I'm about the only person in the world left to look for some of these families.
My husband's is a whole different story though. Lots of cousins are researching the same families.
I have a hard time making that connection across the ocean. Sometimes I think my ancestors just swam up out of the water! Or dropped from the sky. :-)
Right now I'm concentrating on Hertz from France to NYC, Oberndorf from Germany/France to NYC, Chadwick from England to Rhode Island, Canfield from ? to Massachusetts and Rogers from Ireland to Connecticut.
I usually end up solving one question and finding at least three more to solve. It's better than a good murder mystery!
I'm LDS and was just called back into the Family History Library at our church and am enjoying the use of Ancestry.com although ours doesn't have European records so I miss a lot because of that.
When I'm not finding my ancestors, I'm usually helping someone else find theirs. It's fun, and I hope I can gain some good tips here and perhaps add a few too.

posted by SpiritSeeker

Your names from France and Germany could have been changed/spelling, change on endings, etc. Those will be difficult. England and Ireland can be labor intensive. You have a lot of work in front of you, but it will be interesting. Just focus on one area at a time. Start from current and work backwards. Mother and Father to their Mother and Father all the way back. The rest will fall in. Good luck. kathleen

posted by ksulli1234
over 2 years ago

Where and when in CT for Rogers? And do your Rogers have a McLaughlin connection? One of my closest friends was a Rogers in CT who's mother was a McLaughlin.

posted by Sammig
over 2 years ago

Cornwall, Litchfield County and Meridan, New Haven County in Connecticut. Frank Rogers (abt 1820-1919) was born in Ireland and married Susan Kiernan (abt 1824-) in Ireland. Their oldest children, Bridget (1849) and Catherine (1851) were born in Ireland. My great grandmother, Margaret Agnes (1853-1951) was possibly born in Connecticut and the rest of the siblings were born in CT.; John (1855), Charles L. (1856), Franklin 1857), Hubert (1859), Mathew (1861 in Cornwall), and Elizabeth (1864 in Cornwall).
Mathew married Nellie (Unknown last name), Elizabeth married McConnell and had Mathew, Helena, Frank and Teresa McConnell. Margaret Agnes married Marcus Willard Minor and had Frank M., Mary A., Ida Estella, Earl Rogers, and Elsie Harriet Minor. I don't know about the rest of them and haven't found them anywhere.
They were Roman Catholic and Frank was a farmer. My mother thought she remembered them saying Frank had come from County Cavan, and Susan had come from County Meath in Ireland.
There are several sons that I have no further information on.
Margaret Agnes Rogers Minor would read the letters sent home to wives from Civil War soldiers as many of the wives couldn't read. Her church was St. Bridgett's (Catholic) in Cheshire but she was buried in an Episcopalian cemetery by her husband. He forbade her to go to church while he was alive. The 1860 census says she was born in Ireland, but I find opposing views to that. She was also blind in her later years.

posted by SpiritSeeker
over 2 years ago