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Monday, March 8, 2010

WDYTYA??

Who Do You Think You Are aired last Friday night.  I sat with my arms crossed with tears running down my face.  Not because I was sad and not because I was happy.  I cried because I was so jealous.  An emotion I have never really experienced before.  I am not a jealous envious person, so those emotions are so new and so raw.

I was jealous because these people had all the resources and people at their finger tips.  They had everyone else braking down their brick walls.  I am excited the show is on, don’t get me wrong I love the idea and the reason behind it.  But really, I wanted to be the one that was helped through my family tree.

It had definitely lighted a fire under my  bum, to pull out old files and get reacquainted with people I hadn’t visited in awhile.  I am looking forward to seeing another episode on Friday.

So on Saturday I tried looking for the Howell family.  I was a little successful.   I had found Sara Howell who married Henry Brezee.  Together they had a child Rosa Bella Brezee. I found information on Sara’s parents. Her mother was Rebecca Limbers and her father was Nehemiah Howell, so now I have another name to look up and that really excites me.  I found an excerpt from the book “The History of Barbour County of West Virginia. I don’t know the author.  There is a handful of info for me in this book and I am so excited.

The only problem with the Howell family is that I can not find Nehemiah anytime before he was married to Rebecca.  I have my work cut out for me on this one. So my goals for this week are;

  1. Find out who Nehemiah father is.
  2. Find all the Census on Nehemiah.

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