Scott & Kathryn (Leedom) Ives Genealogy
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Scott & Kathryn (Leedom) Ives Genealogy |
| We have been studying our family
histories since 1994 or so. Like probably most researchers our
efforts were slow going at first - some evenings spent at a local
LDS Family History Center looking through microfiches of submitted
and extracted records, occasional Saturday afternoons at the
Minnesota History Center poring over over family and local history books
there.
Eventually some of our ancestors started opening up to us a bit, but
it wasn't until genealogy on the Internet took off that things
really opened up. Being able to find and share information with
"live"
people who have already researched the families being researched has
been a great aid, and in turn we have been able to help others with
their research - which is also quite pleasing. Among some interesting finds we discovered we are possibly cousins to each other - the exact relationship is 14th cousins/once removed. We are both descendants of a PEASE family of Great Baddow, Essex England in the late 1400s - Scott a descendant of Robert Pease and Kathryn a descendant of John Pease; Robert and John are believed to be brothers, though definite proof is lacking. Scott discovered his parents are half 8th cousins/2times removed to each other - his father a descendant of William and Hannah (___) Ives of New Haven CT, his mother a descendant William Bassett and Hannah (Ives), the widow of William Ives. Such discoveries are not unusual among family historians. |
The bulk of our information is stored
at the RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative, a free
genealogy website sponsored by Ancestry.com, which is owned by
MyFamily.com, which also owns Genealogy.com, which is or was owned
by A&E Networks which is or was owned by Hearst (who can keep up?).
Regardless, as long as access to RootsWeb is free for sharing we
will keep our information there. We also have a database up at
RootsWeb WorldConnect. This database was created by uploading the
file made by Legacy, our genealogy program, to RootsWeb. RootsWeb
then takes that file and creates webpages from it, with everybody in
the file linked to each other. The viewer can find anything we know
about a couple, their children and their ancestors, complete with
notes and source citations (when available).
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