Genealogy updating

Recently. I was asked by my brother about the two genealogies, Wallace and Leverett, because his daughter, my niece, was interested. Actually I think a lot of us are interested, and a lot has changed on them.

But they were in bad condition. The version that my parents passed along - they were the last ones to actually work on them - I had put online, and they are still there. I could for example link to the Leverett one on the template of this blog, and to the Wallace one on the Wallace blog. But I don't, partly because I know they are outdated and incomplete.

That's about to change. For one thing I am actively working on both, so I will have an updated version for anyone who asks. Almost whatever I do will still be incomplete, as I always find incomplete things virtually whenever I open them.

But I am interested in geography, for example where were they born, and where were they married, and I'm putting those in as I go, where I know them. If I learn more I'll put that in too. I'm in an ideal position to do it because I've researched so much of each family.

In fact I've written six books on the Leveretts, and one on the Wallace side, so that's my excuse for not getting to the painstaking detail work involved in putting in birth dates, death dates, marriage dates, etc. But all that information is there and waiting to be harvested.

In a way I find it reassuring in these troubling times to work with people who somehow survived things like the depression and the Civil War. In some cases they didn't survive, like Percival Nott, who had eleven children and died in Shiloh. I've found lots of interesting people, most of them distant relatives as I don't focus narrowly on the ancestors themselves. There are also the women's families: they enter the picture at the marriage, but they have their own funnel: two parents, four grandparents, going all the way up. As they enter our genealogy we are of course entering theirs. It's a funnel dance, like when Sufis get together.

This post is to say, if you are a Leverett, and have therefore found this blog because you are on that genealogy, or should be, or are interested in the descendants as they came down, Write me with updates or to have a copy, electronically, of what I've got so far. I know a lot of changes I can make to the Leverett one right away, but haven't done it, because I've been mired in the Wallace one where I have to familiarize myself with the main characters.