Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Shaking the tree

geniEric Flora, my fourth cousin once removed, who lives in the ancestral hometown of Flora, Ind., joined the Geni.com family tree this week and has added a bunch of heretofore unlisted relatives.

I started the genealogical project on a whim back in January, 2007, and it's grown to include 528 people - most of them deceased - going back to the first Flora/Flory on American soil - Great-great-great-great-great-grandfather Joseph Flory (1682-1741) who emigrated to the Colonies from Switzerland, by way of Germany, in 1733.

Fortunately, I had the work of others to build upon and it hasn't been all that difficult.

1 comment:

eflora1970 said...

Glad to help. I plan to add to the project in the near future.