Ahnentafel

One of these days I am going to get this right. I think I have begun approximately 9742 different genealogy websites to date, the latest being the genealogy database one at http://alabama.shnw.net/~spuddled/.  My goal, as ever, is to enslave others to my own genealogical addiction.  What better way than to start another genealogical project:  THE BLOG!  I figure this will be a good method for spreading the genealogical joy I uncover while doing research.  Thanks, Sarah, for inspiring me with the blog idea! 

My current project (one of these days I will have genealogical whiplash from jumping from one project to another) is to transcribe the Moses Sweeney Descendants CD I purchased from J. Harvey Sweeney, Jr.  So far I am on page 107 of 1224.  Moses Sweeney was my 6-great-grandfather on Dad’s side of the family:  me-Theodore-Blanche-Carl-Lucinda-Celia-Cassandra-Celah-Moses.  The most interesting thing about this branch is that after leaving Ireland they settled in Buckingham County, Virginia, not 40 miles from where Matt chose to go to graduate school (and then stayed).  An added coincidence is that the Sweeneys only stayed in Buckingham for about a generation, moving on to land grants in what would later become Kentucky; some of the Sweeney descendants settled in Danville, Kentucky, home of Centre College, Matt’s undergrad alma mater.