Shreela

I had 4 living great-grandparents when I was little -- one was a step, but since he helped raise my grandmother, he's my great-grandfather w/o shared DNA. My first GG passed when I was in grade school from a series of small mini-strokes that caused him to need to live in a nursing home. His wife, my great-grandmother lived next door to my grandparents, and lived as a widow until she passed at 90 when I was a young adult. My grandfather's father passed fairly soon to when my 90 ggrandmother passed. My step ggrandfather was similar in age to the others, but survived longer until demential combined with a broken hip set things downhill for him. My three grandparents lived until their mid 80s, and all passed within a few years of each other about 5 years ago. Since starting the internet in '97, I've occasionally looked up my family names, but never found anyone in my family. After my grandfather passed, a man sent me a PDF file with our family name beyond my great-grandfather (I think I had posted my grandfather and ggrandfather's names on an ancestry forum). So finally, sometime last year, I finally found stuff online hooking up with my family line, thanks to the man that sent me the PDF with my family names beyond my ggrandfather. If what I've found through others' posted documents is correct, and if I put the info together correctly, it looks like it's possible my ancestors go back to the Revolutionary War and Founding Fathers I emailed a local DAR chapter earlier with questions about how to get the starting 3 certificates (myself, parent, grandparent I guess), and they sent me a form to fill out, and now I need to setup a meeting with a DAR membership representative that can help me find out if the info I found online is correct. I don't know if her helping me will cost anything, but I'm pretty sure I'll have to pay for the required documents of the 1st three generations thing. I think we might meet this weekend!!