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Arnold Ancestor Circle

I thought I would try a different kind of ancestry chart, so I tried this circle chart with my sister Jane's family.  At the bottom is the link to the whole picture.                                                                  Arnold Side of the Family The parents are in the tan circles, and lines connect them to the grandparents in the dark blue circles.  Each generation back in time lightens in color.  Great-grandparents are medium blue, great-greats are light blue, and great-great-greats are white. The dates in the circles tell  when  the person was born and died.  The tan tags under the circles tell  where  the person was born and died. The women are listed with their maiden names.  If they have no last name, it is because I don't know it.  If there is a question mark, that means that I am not sure of the accuracy of the fact.                                                              Sullivan Side of the Family      I don't know as much about the Sullivan side, s

Thanks Aunt Jean!

Well!  So much has happened, I don't know where to start.    Sisters Anna Jean Spence Wood on left and Nellie (Na) Spence Oliveto on right, daughters of Howard and Nellie Spence.  Their cousin Jean Robertson Brendel, daughter of Bessie Spence Robertson, in the middle.  At Grannie Phoebe and Grampa Bill's house on Aberdeen St. in Springhill, about 1940. I started DNA testing to find my children's paternal biological family, since Doug was adopted.  But he died before DNA testing existed, so the genealogists at Ancestry told me to test all 3 of our children.  With all 3 of them, I was told, all of Doug's DNA would be present somewhere.   It's funny now how excited I was when I saw those first matches!  They were clues to where Doug's father came from and where he lived!  Now, it's laughable, because I have thousands of matches and those first ones are so far removed.  But I started out by trying to sort and triangulate my family, since I know them, and if I co