East Coast RootsGenealogy and History on the East Coast
Please pardon our dust while multiple changes are made here. While this site started out just as my own ancestral information, I am working in linking in files from my location-based site as well. This will be an ongoing process, so keep checking back to see what new information is being added!
Every family seems to have one - the person who likes to collect the family records and has the big box of old photos. However they came into the position, they may be the only one who really cares to find out as much as they can about the family history. Other family members may eventually care to learn more, and hopefully, will appreciate the work of the family historian. There are no guarantees that anyone in the immediate family will care, but that's not really important to the family historian - they do what they do because it matters to them.
The house in the picture is most likely the house in which my great-grandfather, Isaac Reynolds was born in 1864. Sadly, the house is long gone, submerged under water when the Conowingo Dam was built.
For those who may be curious about how I got interested in genealogy in the first place, you can blame it on my paternal grandmother. She had a two-volume set of books detailing her Moore ancestors, though she was quick to point out that she had been born after the volumes were published.
In 1989, I bought my first computer and soon discovered the genealogy forums on AOL and Compuserve. I started researching my roots more seriously. I was fortunate in living close to the Family Lines Publications store at the time and invested in most of the titles they published from the southeastern parts of Pennsylvania, as well as many pertaining to Delaware and New Jersey.
Throughout the early 90's, I gathered information about my ancestors from anyone and anywhere that could provide clues, not all of them valid. I learned a lot about proving (and disproving)records in the process. In 1996, I began hosting two Pennsylvania counties in the US GenWeb Project and maintained those for 6 years. At that point, it was time for me to move on and develop my own site for my research. Over the years, I have built many websites for my research, this being the latest version, along with my East Coast Roots site. I do hope you enjoy what is here!
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I am in the process of making quite a few changes to this site, so the site is currently in maintenance mode while these changes are being made.
Our East Coast Roots site contains many records which will be of interest to East Coast researchers.
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Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.
Everyone has ancestors and it is only a question of going back far enough to find a good one.
We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business.
Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
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