Hello! I’m Andrea, and I am a self-proclaimed family history nerd! I love my family. I love discovering who I come from and their families. I love to see how the ancestors of my parents, or grandparents, or even of my husband and I crossed paths long before their descendants met and got married.
I love discovering stories that tell me about these people and what they experienced in their life. I love going to the places my ancestors were, or helped build, and I love discovering pictures and being able to put a face to a name. I also love to share my discoveries, their stories, and their pictures with my family now. It’s fun to meet cousins that I share a grandparent with and share things with them, and maybe see what they have to share with me! In doing this, I realized I needed to get my research all in one place, so that someday my children, and their children, and so on, if they find that they have the same desire to learn about who they come from, can find it in one place.
I’m also “putting it out there” via this website/blog for others who are related to me to be able to maybe benefit from what I’ve learned, correct mistakes, or add information. Some of the surnames that will be discussed here are: Nicoll, Naegle, Ellsworth, Scarlett, Motes, Wanslee, Kempe, Babbitt, Adams, Johnson, Bryner, Olsen, McCleve(McClave), Evans, Quinn, and Lee. Eventually I will also add stories from my husbands side as well, including Wilson, Phelps, Sattler, Rawson, Taylor, and others.
Please fell free to comment, share, and correct if needed, and by all means, if we are family and have never met, please introduce yourself to me!
