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| Family trees 10 generations long |
I know the names of 253 of my great great great great great great great grandparents. That’s going back 10 generations, starting at 1 with me. According to the math, I should have 512 of these great^7 grandparents, which means that 259 of them are currently lost in the depths of history somewhere.
This group of people includes some who were born as late as 1802 and others as early as 1650. I guess having kids at 16 and waiting until 35 makes a big difference across multiple generations. One of the interesting last names is Careless. Mine is way better.
Here is an overview of where they are all from.
The majority of the ones already in America at this time are probably mostly from England. It would appear that I have a lot of ancestors who fought in the revolutionary war.
The last Rogers that I know of is Henry Rogers, probably born in North Carolina. It’s not clear when, but records show his son, Henry Rogers Jr was born there around 1806. I don’t know what country the Rogers line is from. Odds are that it’s England.
The first Neville (my mother's line) to come to America was William Stiff Neville who was born in Hampshire England on 25 June 1803. He died in Utah in 1880. I don’t know the details, but I think he was baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in England and then joined the saints in America, eventually making the exodus across the country to Utah.
I have many other Mormon pioneer ancestors. As far as I can tell, 10 out of 16 of my great great great grandparents were Mormon pioneers. They include the Morris Charles Phelps family, the Richard Fryer family, the Milford Bard Shipp family, John Taylor and his family (who later became the prophet and president of the church), the Nelson Wheeler Whipple family, the William John Hill family, the Ephraim Frisby family, the Jeremiah Willey family, and the Matthias Cowley family. There is definitely a lot of faith in my veins, so I don’t have much excuse to slack off. I would love to read the journals of these pioneers. I do have a copy of some of Jeremiah Willey’s journal writings and letters, which I need to digitalize. If anyone has stories or writings from any of the above families, I would love a copy.
With 253 people 10 generations ago, there’s probably an infinite amount I could say about them as well as an infinite amount of things I don’t know about them. I’m proud of my ancestors and grateful for the church’s new family search website which let me discover more than I had previously known about them. It is fun to know that there are so many great people waiting for me on the other side.
If you're curious, here's the prophet John Taylor in my lineage.
