09-23-2020, 12:10 PM
(09-23-2020, 11:59 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: One thing I noticed about researching my Virginia Appalachian ancestors versus my Maryland/DC Irish Catholic ancestors is the amount of kids they had. 7+ seemed to be the norm. Not a ton dying in childhood either. More frequently, you'd see the mom die and the dad remarry and have a few more kids.
The vast majority of my DNA matches on Ancestry being from my paternal grandmother's side makes sense now.
My grandfather was born in 1877. He was 51 when my father was born to his second wife and had three more children after that. He had a total of 13 children. I had an uncle (not great-uncle) who served in WWI. I could not keep them straight at all when I was growing up. I had cousins who were 40+ years older than me.
