1308. Fascinating past! Searching ancestors of some of my great grandchildren.
Last October, I went down to the Mesa, Arizona area, to see my newest great grandchild, and beautiful baby girl, 3 months old, and also her first cousin, a year old now. I was fascinated with the ancestry these two sweet baby girls have, combined with mine. Their grandfather on my grandson's line was Italian, and the grandmother's line came partly from Lithuania. I wondered just who my posterity would have on a pedigree, shared with my and my husband's name. My husband, Wayne D Eckman, an identical twin, had ancestry on his father's side from Sweden, and New England and in the 1600s from England. I took some pedigree charts down with me, and my son-in-law's father, of Italian ancestry just 2 generations back -- filled them back as far as he could remember. I did find sources which verified them after they had immigrated to the United States, but I couldn't trace the ancestry back into Italy. I left a pedigree chart with the mother of my grandson's wi...