Broken Branch – When the End of the Line Families Are Not Well-Documented
Note: this post should have originally been posted here instead of at My Trails Into the Past. I have been researching my maternal grandmother’s side of the family for over thirty years. Her family is southern, through and through, and I have not figured out yet when they arrived in the United States or through which state or colony. As I started out, I used census records to work my way back. Her father was a Lancaster and her mother a Loveless. The Lancaster line was straight forward until I got to Ellis Lancaster, her great-great-grandfather, because I found two Ellis Lancasters in Kentucky and I needed to sort them out. On her Loveless side, I acquired a book, Loveless, Shockley, Flowers, Camp and Related Families by Sheila Britt Cameron. [1] Like many beginning genealogists, I took that book and entered many of the people from my lines into my genealogy program. Of course, I didn’t source the book, so now when I look at the record of these people, I don’t know whe...